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IN HIS_STEPS. 3esus 3Bo?" By Charles M. Sheldon. (Bi Copyrighted and published in book form by thc <& ~4di*ance Pu?>it?/i?n{7 Co. 0/ Chicago. ^ v i on mean rv. no plans yet. ? c work as a t?ie*.?r? ' n< it saoJv. ii'oiirv \w. tj <: *a coi no $>? *hii : bow bis wi fr? and d::ughfcT felt, iii' knew weil eno-gh th-;! iii; porinte::?- ut had sn?fered deepest ;:? that point "Th-Te is or.e I:;-?;; r ? wish yon w?Ttld see to." said Powers after awhile, -'and that is the work begun ;;t th'* shops. So far as I know, the coi;. *'Listen to this. Mary," he said after a moment, while his voice trembled : "This morning Alexander Powers, superintendent of the L. and T. R. R. shops in this city, handed his resigna? tion to the road and gave as the reason the fact that certain proof had fallen into his hands of the violation of the interstate commerce law, and also of the state law. which has recently been framed to prevent and punish railroad pooling for the benefit of certain fa? vored shippers. Mr. Powers states in his resignation that he can no longer consistently withhold the information >! he possesses against the road. He has placed his evidence against the com? pany in the hands of the commission, and it is now for them to take action j ripon it. "The News wishes to express itself on this action of Mr. Powers. In the first place, he has nothing to gain by it He has lost a valuable place volun? tarily when by keeping silent he might have retained it. In the second place, vre believe hi3 action ought to receive the approval of all thoughtful, honest citizens who believe in seeing law obeyed and lawbreakers brought to jus? tice. In a case like this, where evidence against a railroad company is generally .understood to be almost impossible to obtain, it is the general belief that the officers of the road are often in posses? sion of criminating facts, but do not consider it to be any of their business to inform the authorities that the law is being defied. "The entire result of this evasion of responsibility cn the part of those who are responsible is demoralizing to every young man connected with the road. The editor of The News recalls tho statement made by a prominent rail? road ofneial in this city a little while ago that nearly every clerk in a certain department of the road who understood how large sums of money were made by ?hrewd violations of the interstate com- , mer ce law was ready to admire the shrewdness with which it was done and declared that they would all do the same thing if they were high enough in railroad circles to attempt it [This was actually said in one of the general of? fices of a great western railroad, to the author's knowledge.} "It is not necessary to say that such a condition of business is destructive to all the nobler and higher standards of conduct, and no young man can live in such an atmosphere of unpunished dishonesty and lawlessness without wrecking his character. "In our judgment, Mr. Powers did the only thing that a Christian man Jc2n do. He has rendered brave and use? ful service to the state and the general public. It is not always an easy matter to determine tho relations that exist be? tween the individual citizen and his fixed duty to the public. In this case there is no doubt in our mind that the step which Mr. Powers has taken com? mends itself to every man who believes in law and its enforcement. There are times when the individual must act for the people in ways that will mean sac? rifice and loss to him of the gravest character. Mr. Powers will be misun? derstood and misrepresented, but there is no question thai his course will be approved by every citizen who wishes to see the greatest corporations as well as the weakest individual subject to the game law. Mr. Powers has done all that a loyal, patriotic citizen could do. It now remains for the commission to act upon his evidence, which, we under? stand, is overwhelming proof of the lawlessness of the L. and T. Let the law be enforced, no matter who the persons may be who have been guilty. " Henry Maxwell finished reading and ?dropped the paper. "I must go and see Powers. This is the result of his promise. " Ee rose, and as he was going out his wife said "Do you think. Henry, that Jesus would have done that?" Henry Maxwell paused a moment. Then he answered slowly : "ILVS: I think he would. At any rate, 1 Powers has decided so. and each one of us who made the promise understands : that he is not deciding Jesus' conduct : for any one else, only fur himself." "How about his family? How will ! Mrs. Powers and Celia bo likely to take itr* "Very hard. I have no doubt. That ! will be Powers' cross in this matter. They will not understand his motive." Henry Maxwell went out and walked over to the next bloc k, where the su? perintendent lived. To his relief. Pow? ers himself came to the door The two men shook hands silently. They instantly understood each other without words. There had never been such a bond of union between the min? ister and bis parishioner. "What ave you going to do?" Henry Maxwell asxed after they had talked ove r the facts in the case- and considered the::i w( ii. on. It is one of ' ??ie contradictions < the railroad world that the Y. M. C. i and other Christian influences are ci I couraged by the roads, while all tl j time the most un-Christian and lawle: ! acts are being committed in the o??ci; ? management of the roads themselve: ! Of course it is understood that it pa} a railroad to have in its employ me who are temperate and honest an Christian. So I have no doubt the ma; ter mechanic will have the same com tesy extended to him that I had in th matter of the room and its uses. Bu what I want you to do, Mr. Maxwel is to see that my plan is carried oui Will you? Yon understand what th ? idea was in general. You made a ver j favorable impression cn the men. G ! down there as often as you can. Ge ? Milton Wright interested to provid something for the furnishing and ex pense of the coffee plant and readin: tables. Will you dp it?" "Yes," replied Henry Maxwell. H staid a little longer. Before he wen away he and the superintendent had < prayer together, and they parted wit! that silent hand grasp that seemed t< them like a new token of their Chris tian discipleship and fellowship. The pastor of the First church wen home stirred deeply by the events o: the week. Gradually the truth wai growing upor. him that the pledge tc do as Jesus would was working out ? revolution in his parish and throughoul the city. Every day added to the serions results of obedience to that pledge. Henry Maxwell did not pretend to see the end. He was. in fact, only now at the very beginning of events that were destined to change the history of hun? dreds of families, not only in Raymond, but throughout the entire country. As he thought of Edward Norman and Rachel and Mr. Powers and of the re? sults that had already come from their actions he could not help a feeling of intense interest in the probable effect if all the persons in the First church who had made the pledge faithfully kept it Woujd they all keep it, or would some of ' them turn back when the cross be? came too heavy ? He was asking this question the next morning as he sat in his study when the president of the Endeavor society called to see him. "I suppose I ought not to trouble you with my case," said young Morris, coming at once to bis errand, "but I thought. Mr. Maxwell, that you might advise me a little. " "I'm glad you came. Go on. Fred. " Henry Maxwell had known the young man ever since his first year in the pas? torate and loved and honored him for his consistent, faithful service in the church. "Well, the fact is I'm ont of a job. You know. I've been doing reporter work on The Morning Sentinel since I graduated last year. Well, last Satur? day Mr. Burr asked me to go down the read Sunday morning and get the de? tails of that train robbery at the junc? tion and write the thing np for the ex? tra edition that came ont Monday morning, jnst to get the start of The Newa I refused to go. and Burr gave me my dismissal He was in a bad tem? per, or I think perhaps he would not have d . ne it. He has always treated me well before. Now, don't you think Jesus would have done as I did ? I ask because the. other fellows say I was a fool not to do the work. I want to feel that a Christian acts from motives that may seem strange to others sometimes, but not foolish. What do you think?" "I think you kept your promise. Fred. I cannot believe Jesus would do newspaper work on Sunday, as you ? were asked to do it. " 1 'Thank you. Mr. Maxwell. I felt a little troubled over it. but the longer I ? think it over the better I feel. " Morris rose io go. and Henry Max- ? well rose and laid a loving hand on the | young man*s shoulder. "What are you going to do. Fred?" ; "I don't know yet. I have thought j some cf going to Chicago or some large ; city." "Why don't you try The News?" "They are- all supplied. I have not ! thought of applying there." Henry Maxwell thought a moment. | "Come down to The News office with j me and let us see Norman about it. " So a few minutes later Edward Nor? man received into his room the minister and young Morris, and Henry Maxwell | brieliy told the cause of their errand. "I can give you ;i place on The ! News." said Edward Norman, with his , keen look softened by a smile that made it winson:". "I want reporters who won't work Sundays. And, what is rn-?re. I am making plans for a special kind of reporting which 1 believe young . Morris here can develop because he is in svmnathv with what Jesus would do."* He assigned Morris a definite task, and Henry Maxwell started back to his , study fe< ling that kind < f satisfaction - and it is a very de? p kind windi a man feels when he lias been even par? ly instrumental ia finding an unemployed person a situai ion. 1 le had iii"; nded to go back t<? his study, outon his way home la- pas.-ad by one cf Milton Wrights stores: lie thought ho would simply-step m aral shake hands with his parishioner an?! bi i him goa ?peed in what IM- had heard he was doing to put Christ inn* his business, but when la- went into ii i. : office Milton Wright insisted on detain? ing him to talk oxer some of his new j plans iiuajtxMaxWjcd^ask^d himself if j mow. eminently practical, DOSI ne like, according to the regular code ?the business world, and viewing evei thing first and foremost from the stan ipoint of "Will it -ay?" * There is no use to disguise the fat Mr. Maxwell, that I have been coi pelled to revolutionize the whole meth of my business since I made that proi jse. I have been doing a great mai things during the last 20 years in tr. store that I know Jesus would not d but that is a small item compared wi the number of things I begin to belie Jesus would do. My sins of comm issi ( have not been as many as those of omi . sion in business relations. " "What was the first change ye made?" asked Henry Maxwell. He fe as if his sermon could wait for him i his study. As the interview with Mi ton Wright continued he was not ! sure but he had found material for sermon without going back to his stud; "I think the first change I had 1 make was in my thought of my en ployees. I came down here Monda morning after that Sunday and askc myself 'What would Jesus do in h: relation to these clerks, bookkeeper: ofi?ce boys, draymen, salesmen ? Woui he try to establish some sort of person: relation to them different from thc which I have sustained all these years ' I soon answered the question by saying 'Yes. ' Then came the question of wha it would lead me to do. "I did not see how I could answer j to my satisfaction without getting a my employees together and having talk with them So I sent invitation to all of them, and we had a ineetin out there ;n the warehouse Tuesda; night "A good many things came out o that meeting. 1 can't tell you ali tried to talk with the men as I im agined Jesus might. It was hard work for 1 have not been in the habit of it and I must have made mistakes. But can hardly make you believe. Mr. Max well, the effect of that meeting on som? of the men. Eefore it closed I saw mor< than a dozen of them with tears oi their faces. I kept asking. 'What wonk Jesus do?' and the more I asked it thc further along it pushed me into th< most intimate and loving relations wit! the men who have worked for me al these years Every day something nev? is coming up, and I am right now ir the midst of a reconstructing of the entire business, so far as its motive foi being conducted is concerned I am sc practically ignorant of all plans for co? operation and its application to business that I am trying to get information from every possible source. I have late? ly made a special study of the life of Titus Salt, the great mill owner of Bradford, England, who afterward built that model town on the banks of the Aira There is a good deal in his plans that will help. But I have not yet reached definite conclusions in regard to all the details. I am not enough used to Jesus' methods. . But see here. " Milton eagerly reached up into one of the pigeonholes of his desk and took out a paper "I have sketched out what seems to me a programme such as Jesus might go by in a business like mine. I want you to tel] me what yen think about it ' "WHAT JESUS WOULD PROBA EUT DO IN MILTON WRIGHT'S PLACE AS A BUSINESS il AN "1 He would engage in business for the purpose of glorifying God and not for the primary purpose of making money "2 All money that might be made he would never regard as his own. but as trust fnnd;- to be used for the good of h aman i ty "3 His relations with all the per? sons in his employ would be the most loving and helpful. He could not help thinking of them all in the light of souls to be saved. This thought would always be greater than his thought of making money in business. "4 He would never do a single dis? honest or questionable thing or try in the remotest way to get the advantage of any one else in the same business. "5 The principle of unselfishness and helpfulness in all the details of the business would direct its details. "C. Upon this principle he would shape the entire plan of his relations to his employees, to the people who were his customers and to the general busi? ness world with which he was con? nected. ' Henry Maxwell read this over slowly it reminded him of his own attempts the day before to pnt into a concrete form his thought of Jesus' probable ac? tion. He was very thoughtful as he looked up and met Milton Wright's sager gaze "Do yon believe you can continue to make your business pay on those lines?' . "ldo. Intelligent unselfishness ought to be wiser than intelligent selfishness, don t you think? If the men who work HS employees oegin to feel a personal share in the profits of the business and. more than that, a personal love for themselves on the part of the firm, won t the result be more care, les^ waste, more diligence, more faithful ness V ' "Yes: 1 think so A good many ot h. ci business men don't, do they? I mean as a general thing How about your re? lations to the selfish world that is net tryney to make money on Christian principles?' "That complicates my action, of course "Docs yonr plan contemplate what is I coming to be known as co-operation?' : "Yes as far as I have gone, it does As 1 told yon 1 am studying out my details carefully 1 am absolutely ccu vinced that .Jesus in my place would be absolutely ansi Irish He would love all these men tn lo- employ lie would consider the main purpose of all the m-tta To bea a lal N elpfnl ness and W()uld conduct i! all so that God's Iring: dom would be eviclenlly the ii:-: ! > ????}_< ? x Sought: Uli ?ho^e ; ; i:: io; = I say. I am working, 1 must have rime . to comnl i'- i ii" details. " When Fleury Mavve.^ finally I-f. Milton Wright la- was profoundly . ; pressed with tl"- a . lution that was j being wrought '^?^?j^j?^ something of the new spirit of the place There was no mistaking the fact that Milton Wright's new relations to his employees were beginning, even so soon, after less than two weeks, to transform the entire business. This was apparent in the conduct and faces of the clerks. "If Milton Wright keeps on, he will be one of the most influential preachers in Raymond," said Henry Maxwell to himself when he reached his study. The question rose as to his continuance in this course when he began to lose j money by it, as was possible. Henry Maxwell prayed that the Holy Spirit, I who had shown himself with growing i power in the company of the First church disciples, might abide long with them* all. and with that prayer on his lips and in his heart he began the prep? aration of a sermon in which he was going to present to his people on Sun? day the snbject of the saloon in Ray? mond, as he nov/ believed Jesus would I do. He had never preached against the j saloon in this way before. He knew j that the things he should say would j lead to serious results. Nevertheless he j went on with his work, and every sen I tence he wrote cr shaped was preceded ! with the question. "Would Jesus say ; that?" Once in the course of his study ! he went down on his knees. No one ex ! cept himself could know what that i meant to him. When had he done that ! in the preparation of sermons before J the change that had come into his j thought of discipleship? As he viewed ! his ministry now he did not dare to I preach without praying for wisdom. He j no longer thought of his dramatic de? livery and its effect on his audience. The great question with him now was. j "What would Jesus do?" Saturday night at the Rectangle wit? nessed some of the most remarkable scenes that Mr. Gray and his wife had ever known. The meetings had intensi? fied with each night of Rachel's sing? ing. A stranger passing through the Rectangle in the daytime might have heard a good deal about the meetings in one way and another lt cannot be said that up to that Saturday night there was any appreciable lack of oaths and impurity and heavy drinking. The Rec? tangle would not have acknowledged that it was growing any better or that even the singing had softened its con- j versation or its outward manner. It had too much local pride in being "tough." But. in spi:e of itself, there was a yielding to a power it had never measured and did not know well enough to resist beforehand. Gray had recovered his voice, so that Saturday he was able to speak. The fact that he was'obliged to use his voice carefully made it necessary for the peo? ple to be very quiet if they wanted to hear. Gradually they had come to un? derstand that this man was talking these many weeks and using his time and strength to give them a knowledge of a Saviour, all out of a perfectly un? selfish love for them. Tonight the* great crowd was as quiet as Henry Maxwell's decorous audience ever was. The fringe around the tent was deeper, and the saloons were practically empty. The Holy Spirit had come at last, and Gray knew that one of the great prayers cf his life was going to be answered. And Rachel-her singing was the best,'most wonderful Virginia or Jasper Chase had ever known They had come together again tonight with Dr West, who had spent all his spare time that week in the Rectangle with some char? ity cases Virginia was at the organ. Jasper sat on a front seat looking up at Rachel, and the Rectangle swayed a.s ene man toward the platform as she sang "Just ?.i ? am. without one pica?; But t!-.:.t thy blood v\us for m? And that thou bidst n:e como to thee 0 Lamb of Go.!. I como. ? oo:i:e!" Gray said hardly a word. Kc stretch? ed out his hand with a gesture of invi? tation, and down the two aisles of the tent broken, sinful creatures, men and women, stumbled toward the platform One woman out of the street was near the organ Virginia caught the look of her face, and for the first time in the life of the rich girl the thought of what Jesus was to a sinful woman came with a sudden? ness and power that were like nothing but a new birth. Virginia left the or? gan, went to her, locked into her face and caught her hands in her own. The Other girl trembled, then fell on her knees, sobbing, with her head down upon the back cf the bench in front of ? her, still clinging to Virginia. And Vir- j ginia. after a moment s hesitation. | kneeled down by her. a ad the two heads were bowed close together But when the people had crowded in a double row all about the platform. J most of them kneeling and crying, a j man in evening dress, different from the others, pushed through the seat? | and came and kneeled down by the side j of the drunken man who had disturbed j the meeting when Henry Maxwell j spoke He kneeled within a. few feet of j Rachel Winslow, who was still singing I softly, and as she turned for a moment j and looked in Iiis direction she was j amazed to see the face of Rollin Page' j For a moment lier voice faltered Then j she went on .'.In--: as ; am thou ?vii; i?.ei\*e. Will ?volc?me, [.?ardon. .-h-atisc. -./'heve. Beca us?- th} prom ist' I bei ie ve. O lazuli .it God. I come. I come!" j The von-?- was as the voice of divine I longing and the Ileetangle. for the j time being. W2s swi p". into the harbor of red ern pli . e grave I CHAPTER V Ii any r:::-.:i serve mc. let bira follow me. It was nearly midnight before tie service at ri;:- Rectangle closed Gray staid np lona mu Sunday morning ..raying rind \ with a little group j .L converts ha:.. i;. ti:-- srrea? expvri- i .nee of th ir new lin-, "clung t..* ile? j asper ( base had ?rene with them as .;r as the av< nue where Virginia lived, .st had walked on a little way own house, and Rachel and Jasper had then gone OD together to her mother's. That was a little after ll. It was now striking midnight, and Jasper Chase sat in his room staring at the pa? pers on his desk and going over the laet half honr with painful persistence. He had told Rachel Winslow of bis love for her, and she had not given her love in return. It would be difficult to know what was most powerful in the impulse that had moved him to speak to her tonight. He had yielded to his feelings without any special thought of\ results to him? self because he had felt so certain that Rachel would respond to his love fer her. He tried to recall nov just the im? pression she made on him when he first spoke to her. Never had her beauty and her strength influenced him as tonight. While she was singing he saw and heard no one else. The tent swarmed with a confused crowd of faces, and he knew he was sitting there hemmed in by a mob of people, but they had no meaning to him. He felt powerless to avoid speak? ing to her. He knew he should speak when they were once alone. 2s ow that he had spoken he felt that he had misjudged either Rachel or the opportunity. He knew, or thought he did, that she had begun to care for him It was no secret between them that the heroine of Jasper's first novel had been his own ideal of Rachel, and the hero of the story was himself, and they had loved each other in the book, and Rachel had not objected. No one else knew. The names and characters had been drawn with a subtle skill that re? vealed to Rachel, when she received a copy of the book from Jasper, the fact of his love for her, and she had not been offended. That was nearly a year ago. Tonight Jasper Chase recalled the scene between them, with every inflec? tion and movement unerased from his memory. He even recalled the fact that he began to speak just at that point on the avenue where a few days before he had met Rachel walking with Rollin Page. He had wondered at the time what Rollin was saying. "Rachel." Jasper had said, and it was the first time he had ever spoken her first name. "I never knew until to? night hov much I love you. Why should I try to conceal any longer what you have seen me look? You know I love yon as my life. I can no longer hide it from you if I would. " The first intimation he had of a re? fusal was the trembling of Rachel's arm in his owvn. She had allowed him to speak and had neither turned her face toward him nor away from him She had looked straight on, and her voice was sad. but firm and quiet, when she spoke. "Why do you speak tome now? I cannot bear it-after what we have seen tonight " "Why-what"- he had stammered and then was silent. Rachel withdrew her arm from his. but still walked near him Then he cried ont with the anguish of one who begins to see a great loss facing him where he expected a great joy. "Rachel! Do you not love me? Is not HIT love for you as sacred as any? thing in all of life itself?" She had walked on silent for a few steps nf ter that They had passed a streit lamp. Her face was pale and beautiful He had made a movement to clutch her arm. and she had moved a | little farther from him. ' "No. she had replied. '"There was?! a time-I cannot answer for that. You should not ha.ve spoken tome tonight ' He had seen in these words his an- : swer. Ee was extremely sensitive. ? Nothing shun of a joyous respense to j his own love would have satisfied him j He could nc? think cf pleading with j her "Some time, when 1 am more wor- j thy v" he had asked in a low voice, but j she did not seem to hear, and they had parted at her home, and he recalled vividly the fact that no good night had been said Nov. as he went over the brief but significant scene, he lashed himself for his foolish precipitancy He had not reckoned on Rachel's tense, passionate absorption of all her feeiing in the j scenes at the tent which were so new in her mind. Eat he did not know her veil enough even yet to understand the meaning of her refusal. 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Represent, amone oth*-r Corapanie? : LIVERPOOL & LON*DON & '?LOBE, NORTH BRITISH & .MERCANTILE! HOME, ot Nev.- York. UNDERWRITERS' AGENCY, N. Y. LANCASTER INSURANCE CO. Cst? i mi represented $7r>f000,f00 Feh 2S Si .QB BUYS ft $3.50 SPIT ?00 CELEKKATKD .-KAM? KlKOlT" double . ?nd doubt? knee. Secular $3.00 BOT.S* Kee* Knee-Past Sui;* uoin? at S?.95. A SEW SLIT I KKK for a ny of these suits which do;.'t pvcsatisfactory wear. e> Send No Money. Cuc }Ts ' and sena to us. ?tai?- nm- ?>i i>ry and tay v becher l?r;re or small for a^o. ;v.d wo will sendyou tao lit by expi i sv.c O.D.. subject to examin? en, you can ? rca ru i ne it at vour express ?ce and it found r* rfectly satisfactory > eoea? to suits '.-\ in jour town for .50."vay your express ac?n? enr special prie?, Slv^5and iTirr>srh3rir???, THESE Kr" I*/ PA>.T SUITS ar? foi j s fi-?ir. -1 io I Shears ?I n.ni a iv rou ?Icc prj'H!ii-re o' * ' 3ad<* with double seat id knees. Intent :<it;?s:;!e illustrated. . adei'roma specialw?ar?rr*??>;?a?i k?>.i??' tvf AI L-WOOL >.nLn,-?; ca-Niu. r.", >M at. handsome pat rora, tine serjro lsninpr.Cayton patent intorlinin?. pad Jins.sts.yih;; nd rt r. ?on t :,?.?. si I k and linen se>vincr. a?or-ma'l? tkroncfaoui. a suit anvb.iyor parent wouM bo proud of. K>:; KRKE CLOTH > ir, PLES of ;:?>?<.* Clothiss isuits. overcoats or Ulsters), for boys ?1 TO 19 YV.r.S. irntc for Snm;.:.< Booti DOC. contains fashion platen Cape measurcani full instructions bowto order._v jlcn'n Suit? and. 0??rcoati? r.n.ic ta order from $5.00 cy? Samples sent free on application. Addres*. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), Chicago, \h 1 CSears, Boebuck ft Co. are tioroughly reliable.-Eitert