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[Legal Reminiscences.] 18S9. Murvale Eastman: Christian Socialist. [Wealth, Pov- erty, Capital, Labor, Speculation, Journalism, etc.] '1890. *♦* See end of book, for special list of Tourg^e's works published by FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT, 30 Lafayette Place, New Tork. k^ I '* MuRVALE Eastman CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST 4 BY Albion W. Tourgee a ^ i Montreal WM. FOSTER BROWN & CO. Nkw Yokk. KoRDS, HOWAHD, & IWumiT London SAMI'SON LOW, MAHSTON & VO. * ■*• ^• Copvmr.iiT, IN i88q and iSoo, Bv K.MMA K. 'lOUkllEK. Entf RKl) AT SlATIONF.Ks' HaUU, Lntulcin, EnRlaml. All Rights Kt>si'>v,ul. PREFACE. Inheritance and environment are not only reali- tics, but are the most important elements of every life. The thought of yesterday fixes the tendency of to-day: the conditions of to-day arc the back- ground against which every life is projected. The impulse of our yesterday was one of achieve- ment; the most notable miracles of the world's his- tory have been accomplished within a century. Self government has not only grown to be a fact, but has inspired a universal impulse for control. The individual clamors for self-direction, equality of right, of privilege, of opportunity. In the mean time, to-day's conditions-its material tendency and development— have opposed the ful- fillment of yesterday's aspiration. The most tre- mendous forces have moved with unprecedented energy toward the subjection of the individual. During the last half-century, the segregation of capital in a few hands has been equaled only by the restriction of opportunity. A few already control one-half the valuation of the country: the many 11 PREFACE. \\ must be content with the other moiety. But fewer still control the opportunities for labor— the ave- nues of profit. Not only is the ratio of self-employ- ers rapidly diminishing, but the proportion of em- ployers tc employed has already become so small ' as fo awaken universal alarm. Organization has practically eradicated the individual. The small manufacturer has almost disappeared. The small dealer has been absorbed. The small manufacturer has become a foreman; the small merchant an agent. During the last ten years the manufacture of pig-iron has increased three hundred per cent, in the United States, but the number of establishments engaged in its production during the same time has diminished more than one-fifth ! Transportation, by far the greatest business of the country, is controlled by fewer individuals than any other. There are many railroads, but all are parts of or dependent upon a few "systems." Probably less than a score of men actually control the transportation of the United States, the earnings of those engaged in it, and the profits of those dependent upon it. So much power over the comfort and prosperity of so many has never before been wielded by so few. But what exists is as nothing to what promises to be. Projecting the future on the lines of the imme- PREFACE. HI d-ate past, and the dullest mind perceives that the concentration of power by reason of the control of opportunity must, in a very brief period, increase the rat,o of dependency to an extent perhaps never equaled in any civilised country. Already a new feudalism has been developed in which poJer .3 transm, d, not by blood, but by bequest, and in «h.ch vassalage >s secured, not by an oath of alleffi- ance, but by dependency. The barons of wealth L to-day more potent in molding the destinies of o hers than the feudal lords ever were or ever could be. rhe strong arm is potent only as far as d,e sword can reach: the controller of opportunity cables h.s will around the world and grapples 1 depen ent by the throat even at the" an p d Feudal stnfe reduced the number of lords but rarely mcreased the privileges of the feudatories In hke manner competition between the great lords' of production of trade and transportation, lessen the number of controllers of opportunity but in. creases the power of the remainder With these conditions come others-moral and pol.t,cal social and intellectual, which color every l.fe-h,gh and low. Those who serve and those who control are being separated by sharper lines nd more mflexible barriers. " What shall'the end be ? .s the universal refrain of thought to-day. IV PREFACE. The past offers no parallel; it knew no similar conditions. Tho conflict between the many and the few has heretofore been one of personal right; the citizen has been evolved from the serf; the free' man from the slave. To this end all the forces of civilization have been shaped. The present is not a question of personal right, but of just oppor- tunity. Wage-earning is not slavery, but when it becomes a fixed condition it is one of sheer depend- ence. The control of opportunity means the sub- jection of the individual just as much as did the control of his energies, but it does not trench upon the domain of personal right. No individual laborer has a right to demand work and wages of an indi- vidual employer. It is a question between society and the employer as to the control of opportunity. We have simply come upon a new era. The maxims of the past are no longer safe landmarks. The social bases of the past are too narrow for the demands of the present. The domain of personal duty has been enlarged. The relations of the indi- vidual have been extended. The area of mutual obligation has been amazingly increased. The citi- zen has become responsible for direction as well as allegiance. The function of government has been newly defined. The wisdom of the wisest ancient monarch is folly to-day. It is no longer a defensi- PREFACE. ^ ble theory that ''what is good for the hive is good for the bee;" the converse, rather, is the measure of pohcy. The welfare of the governed is acknowl- edged to be the supreme function of government. Already the " wealth of nations " has proved a delu- sion. The individual is the pivot of progress. Per- sonal mdependence is the test of social forces A nation may grow rich beyond all precedent, and at the same time individual opportunity be constantly restricted and the area of self-direction and control be rapidly diminished. The man who labors for himself is a master; he who is dependent for op. portunity upon another's will is half a slave. It is against this background of fact that the au- thor has sought to trace certain characters. He claims for his work only that the background is a real one, and the figures such as one meets in real life, shown under familiar conditions. He has not sought to indicate specific methods of amendment or predict particular results, but merely to point out the spirit which must animate and precede any successful effort at amelioration. The general pur- pose ,s the most important element of social pro . ..or,, and.a-half hot,se in one of the poorest quarters "f a great c„y. „ would have been called a suburb bS 10 MUI<]\\I.I: /-.AS /MAX. that the city stretched away on either side of it, dense and crowded. A valley running down to the river, too broad to be conveniently built over, had baen seized upon, before the growth of population too greatly enhanced its value, as a convenient means of ingress by the half dozen railroads converging in the city. This fact had con- demned it to smoke and squalor. The houses built along its sides were small and cheap. It would not pay to erect costly structures in such a locality. The room was of medium size, and though next to the roof, not uncomfortable nor altogether ill-furnished. That from which the woman came was smaller, but served very well for a kitchen. The entrance was by an outside stair- way at the rear. A quilt was thrown over the chair in which the aian sat, evidently taken from the bed in the back part of the room. The one window in the front was at his right. Before him was an old-fashioned nar- row hair-cloth lounge, much worn; behind him a table. A newspaper, limp and worn from much handling, lay across his lap. "Go to the park!" repeated the woman in surprise. "Why, Jonas, what do you mean? " She sat down upon the lounge and took up a piece of sewing with that habit of constant occupation which be- comes almost a disease in the woman compelled to labor, hardly removing her eyes from her husband's face except to note where first to set her needle. "Just what I say, Hannah," answered the husband. " You know to-morrow is your birthday, and I thought it might do us both good to get a bit of air with a little less cinder in it than what we have to breathe here." He glanced at the blackened panes of the one window as he spoke. ./ C//A'(>.\7(' (/AT.U/i/ /-a: " Do you think you could walk as far as that, Jonas? " suggcstt'd his wife. "I suppose not." A sj)asm interrupted him. He co.ighed w.tli a sort of angry vehemence, as if protesting agamst what he could not avoid. His wife ke,,t on sew- ing. Not a great way at a time, at least," he added finally, pantmg as he wiped his stiff mustache. " It's a long way, as much as three miles," said the wife ho])elessly. " Oh, I don't mean the big park. Of course we couldn't go there. You know that little one up on the avenue not more n a mile from here. If we should start early " He did not finish the sentence but his voice was full of pitiful yearning. " You mean Garden Square? " "Yes, next to Kishu's church." "Perhaps we might go there-if you flunk you couM stand It? "We could take our time; 'go early and get good seats,' you know." ^ ^ "Yes; and it's in the 'dress circle,'" said the woman smding, the very swellest part of the city." " We shouldn't exactly harmonize, you think ? " The woman glanced at her dress. It was of cheap material, faded, patched in places, yet worn with the un- mistakable air of gentility. "Twenty-five years going down hill has been pretty hard on you, dear, but you're a lady yet, as good as any- of ^them," said the husband almost fiercely. "Oh, ril go, Jonas," answered the wife in a tone of hasty conciliation. "I was only wondering if I could do anything to freshen this up. You know I hkc to look re- spectable." i » 12 MrRWU.r. EASTMAX. "Yes, Hannah, I know just how you feel, and T wouldn't ask this, only— well, I've a special reason for wanting to go there, and as soon as I get able to take my 'run' again, there won't be any chance, you know." "Yes, dear, I do know," said the wife, furtively wiping her eyes, "and— and -tlie winter's coming on, and you're so fond of trees and flowers. Of course I'll go," she added with a cheerfulness that was evidently forced. The husband was silent for a little while. The wife looked up, but her eyes dropped on her work as soon as they met his gaze, fixed mournfully upon her. Tears fell on her needle, but she sewed on busily. "You think it'll be my last chance to see such things, don't you, Hannah?" said the husband tenderly. She raised her work to bite oflf the thread. The action partly hid her face. She did not answer. " Like as not you're right," he continued after a mo- ment. "And I wouldn't mind if it wasn't for you. We've had a hard time, dear. Life hasn't brought us much comfort except what we've got out of our love, and I've thought sometimes that only made it all the harder to bear." " Oh, don't say that ! " exclaimed the wife. "I am not comjilaining, Hannah, [t's all we've got, and worth more than all we could have, but it does make the load heavier; there's no mistake about that. You'd be willing to die if it would ease my pain; and I'd be happy to swap my expectations of life for an assurance that you'd be comfortable the rest of your days. I don't think I ever wanted to be rich— very rich, I mean, but I did want you to have a good home and ordinary comforts, and never had an idea but I could always provide them for you J but somehow I haven't been able. It's been -vi.ho>„ any hone U a ^"',? "' ""'"'' ^"'"^ """=. "Bu.,..„ave„o,,„s,„„pe?"saia,he,vife„,ea„- ne::r;i'„,po.X"'':°itraj''V'";' "■.'■ '''"" "'^ Perhimthnf J "'scourage. I just aini give up remaps that s been the trouble wifh m^ v , ' "'-n. I aon t know why— I c idn't carr a c„ 1, the comnanv's nronprt,, :. . u , I "S about don-, dream otrhin!^!:/""""' '"' ""'»' >™ "■e are, and fear try d 7„1, ?' "'' '"T" "" """ befoi-e. You expert If ^ *^ Z™''" "'^" "'= ""^ sharper and ha k „„' , tTe'T '", '"" "" «"""8 being .hankfult r /" , ''' ''"''•'"" '••'"= ^''on. WeV-e done i, ^^2^^']^""""" "' "• »--"• -ork when I could vo k a. al " "" "'""'' ' "^^'^ chance .0 earn and I" I do, . k ""'""; '" ^''^ " wha. we've go. .0 show for i.of . "' "■ •^"'' ""'' '' thine educa.in^ ,h. 1 ,' "''"' "'"^ "P'^"* some- -a,ooddea,or:hf-.h:;r;^-:r;:i »4 MUNVAl.E EAST MAX, i: \ s.iries. Now, I say it isn't fair. We've deserved better than we've had, measuring our work, our savings, and our good-will with others, an(! putting what we've had beside what they've enjoyed." " But if it is the Lord's will ? " Hut it isn't the Lord's will. It's blasphemy to hint that the Lord wishes such things to be. The man spoke with impetuous heat. " You know you haven't been sfong since— since— our trouble, Jonas," said the woman soothingly. "Very true; but I've done a man's work all the time, Hannah, until just lately. I haven't shirked on that ac- count." "Well, well, dear, don't blame the Lord, whatever you do. We haven't ever been grumblers: don't let us begin now." "Oh, I'm not blaming the Lord; only I'm not thankful. I've no cause to be; that's all. I don't think it's the Lord's fault, nor his doings, except in a general way. I do think society is wrong. It ought not to let a willing man fall into helpless poverty. There have been a liun- dred times, since we started ,bwn, when a helping hand, or even one little finger, would \v<. set me 0,1 my feet and made us comfortable. '';.at s wi.it I find tault with. Society is good enough to them that have nothing. It feeds its paupers, and I suppose feeds them well. They ought to be thankful. But we aren't paupers and never will be— never can be. Sometimes, perhaps, the world will learn it's better, and in the long run cheaper, to help men who don't want to be paupers, than to let them drag ' i until they lose hope and are fit only for the poor-house or the prison. Pauperism and crime are like disease: the best way to cure 'em is to prevent 'em— to treat them .1 i7/A'(>.\/( (;/,'/ Mf^i ,.,. »5 tlmfs 'expend- as ud! as ,|,nn that's sirk, just as they ilii will, sin:ll|.|>,ix. ' Tliac was a kn,„k at tl,c l,a,:k door. The wife ,„ ::;:::;'," '■'" '^r^ """ -^ '-«■" -vei,,,.. a :,„■;: e.,gers .an . I he envelope was .„Mresse,l ,o " |.,„a. Ln.lerwoocl." The ,„a„ opene.l i, an.l .„„„,„ Z money it coneained. "Six days- woik-nine doUars!" he said, holding the ".oney n, one l,an,l and the card in ti,e other. "K | .me an,l no ,lo,:king for nristakes: th.fs hetter'n IM avedo„eif,dl,ee„al,le,o,ake,r,yM„/I ::J' ^o„ »ee they ra.sed the wages twenty-five .ents a du a ™on as the stnke was 'ofr; I, is„., ,„ had now: am, conid ,,rol,ahly average seven or eight dollars a week s.anc.s or old age. Iletter |.ay ,he rent a,„l get s„,„e drUd.'"""'- " -■- "O' -' ~ eaL-hanc: He signed the card and handed it to his wife "Now, isn't that something to be thankful , >r?" she asked ahnost gaylyas she kissed his forehead an i went to give the messenger iiis receipt. When she returned her husband said: "Ti it's the queerest thing, Hannah, that's ever happened to me, and 1 ve had some strange experiences, too. 1 can't make out why that man should do the work and send me the money Of course he's young and strong, and probably has got lots of property, but it's no light job that h. 's un- ^lertaken. He said he'd do it for a n.onth, and I m s he meant .t. Strange enough, I haven't any object.on to btmg helped that way. It's the sort of thing I'd be will- mg to do myself.-have done a little of, now and then- though I d die before I'd accept charity. But I'm not ; i6 MUR Va r E p. A S TMA.W going to tax his kindness to the limit, and mean to take my 'run ' Monday or Tuesday if I can." "Don't think of it, Jonas! You know you're not able " said the wife, dropping her work and clasping her hands pleadingly. "I know, dear," answered the husband, "that I ain't able to work if I could aflford to lie still. But I'm not hkely to be much better unless I can get rid of this thing here, ' touching his right breast with his left hand. That's all the trouble; and every time I've coughed for the last two or three days, I've thought sure I was going to get it up." ^ ^ The wife's face assumed at once that look of vacuous assent with which we listen to the fancies of others when we do not wish to contradict, but do not in the least be- lieve. " This thing here " was no unfamiliar topic to the wife of Jonas Underwood, though always a far from pleasant one. He believed that the cough which had troubled him so long was caused by a foreign substance in one of his lungs. Nobody else thought so. The origin of his belief and its history were both curious and sorrowful. As an act of kindness, while serving as a private soldier, he had taken the place of a friend detailed for picket- duty, without the knowledge of his officers and in viola- tion of military rule. In an attack made during the night, the pickets were driven in, and Underwood shot and taken prisoner. As the man whom he had obliged was afraid to divulge the truth he was reported as "absent without leave." Six month, afterward he was exchanged, and being much reduced in flesh and troubled with a cough was discharged from hospital without returning to his regiment, on account of " pulmonary consumption." The •V C///?OX/C CRV.UBI.F.h «rwce, and for some years, except for occasiona L of uS7' 'S,:^r" "° 1«" ■" *^ -i"y wS'h 'a i™X by'cre tceS :"T '"^^T ^° ^"P^^"" *-' pension. "''^' '"' '™''= application for a leatT' dlslaTedT" "™' "''°"''' "^^-"' wi".ou. *ot ■ he h„rn consumption ; " no one saw him were set on his trail to disprove his allegations H. examined by the medir;,! h.o a ''^^,^^'°"'- ^e was Indians," was rigar,,:,, ^rj't, ^ ^^ 7o" ^1'^ "' llf I' !,i 'i..i>f ■r 1 iS M('R\\\r.r. r.ASTM.uv. half a century ago, was looked ujx-ii by the wiseacres of the national bureau of rewards and punishments as a piece of phenomenal efTrontery. After several years of investigation his application was denied in language none the mildest, and with an imputation which caused the sensitive and suffering veteran to shrink from all associa- tion with his former comrades. " 'J'his thing here " had become, therefore, a sore subject in more^;-enses than one. His wife knew that her husband's bei-.f was en- tirely sincere, but even she had long ago concluded that it was only one of tlie peculiar hallucinations of the dis- ease from which he suffered. Her husband read this conviction in her face. "I know you don't believe in it, Hannah." he .said, apologetically, "and I suppose it must seem foolish; but I can't hell) it. I know the thing's there, and I can't get well as long as it stays. If I don't get rid of it before the cold weather comes on, I'm afraid I'll never do any more work; but I mean to get it up." The wife understood her husband's character, so she made no reply. His dark face, strong-featured, with heavy brows and beard, short neck and broad shoulders, showed that his was one of those natures which do not easily yield to disease, and never quite succumb to mis- fortune. He turned and looked out of the window where the sun was lightening mto fleecy waves the mingled steam and smoke that rose from the engine of a passing train. i • s "Sick people always have fancies, don't they, Hannah? My fancy is that if I could get rid of this thing and not have to expose myself during the winter, I might get strong again • not as I once was-that ain't to be expected; but well enough to do regular work of some sort— not too heavy, ./ ciih'oxfc CA'c.y/i/ /■:/,; 19 you know-so that wc neodn't lack for necessaries and have a few comforts. Now I've got an idea " "Please don't get to making any new plans, Jonas," said the wife plaintively. She knew how absorbed he was apt to become in such things in his enforced idleness. 1 here was a moment's silence. "I've had a good many, haven't I?" said the man submissively-" a good many that came to naught I know It, dear. Sometimes it has l,een my fault and sometimes my misfortune. But should we have been any better off if I had just sat down an on workin- " "Oh, I didn't mean that, Jonas, at all,'" said'tlie wife sobbingly "I',n sure we never coul.l have got along il > hadn t been for your planning. I think it ,juite won- derful, the resources you, have shown. As quick as one dependence fails you always have another, so that in spite of all we have never come to real want. But it troubles me to see you making plans that you haven't the strength nor the means to carry out. I know you will be dis;p. pointed, and that always makes you worse." "Well, it is hard, of course, to be tied "down by weak- ness and poverty, and see the doors open all around thmugh which, with a little help, one might get on, and not be able to do a thing, and then perhaps months or years afterward see the very thing one has thought out urning a little river of gold into some rich man's pocket th 0^"' ;': "'•'"'" ' ""''^ ^ ^^^^^^ -'^^'^ke once through not knowing what couldn't be known. I have [l^ I . ^ 4^ '•a io -'/'■^■/V///. /r.^sTA/.^y "■"8 .s jus. as good as pr!ll IZ '" f '' ""« P'^"" Don t say that, Jonas, d„„V l ' ^ °' ""•■'" ''°-" Go.1, don't jouf » 3,„ asked I ■ ? ""'^^ ''<''«™ in ;el.gions views had ,„ I ed C'l '^ , "" ''-''-^' 'ecent injury. "" " good deal since i,is J'gion a theory Th. "'"^^^"^e. God is a fact- r. ""'' .-3 a necessi. 'Uv l:^ f ™=;. "'= °»>-ht,a T l;e.ng of ,a,v; religion a ,1 ™ „, T'r"°"- ^od is a "« -.Ifishnes., SI, *1 succe d t, ''"!'°"- ««''' 'aw is s.mply a misapp,iea,i„„ of flee o ' V ""' ""'""■ '> '^ "'■■=• The man who gives iHl , >""■' °' ">'^ "ea- °'" -ow he can overreach I , " ■'"■"'8* '» finding ««1 .n acguiring weahh. I^^°2 ' "'"'^^"y ^'''■ «f tl.e continued application of t "''''°"''^'' '•^sult One who thinks of others and i/'° " ""'e'" I'°">t. *-'. w^ll naturally lose chaZllT""': "°' '" '"J"<= '^ll', and so falls behind he '^ ''" ^ """ would "» ftuig unfair about it I I "" °' "fc- There's ""■versal law that strength 1 d'T '" "'""''''°'^ "' ">e ™1- And strength and c „Ti^ ""'"« "'O'Where pre- ";»«'- «.e resufts are ^^ '^f ^JT" '"^'"""-'^^ man who uses them " '"''' ''"'P™* upon the ''■«t'?"'::f;,r= *'■"■'' ^™" -^^aH ,heseth- "u ^sked the wife **" "^"^se things, We made the forces r?«o 7^" strong and wise tint thl'" ''"' u^'' '''''■ ^^ made y they might m or tvfor'f * '^^^ ^^^ ^^'^^ "o own selfish gratification ^^^^^"^^^ ^^^"^ ^or their I i A C///WXIC GRLMIU.rR 21 "I haven't any quarrel wit], religion, except as it ten.l, to make the strong stronger and the weaj weaker palliates the failure of the strong to do ri..ht ami ,,! ' hesthe tendency of the weak to'do w™ I '' ■ ■ ' i SI" ruth .s that ,n extolling n.erey I, „„ fo°rg„,te„ j To the ktnd y ntan ,t is a snare, to the hard one a^o , por untty. I, honors achievenrent and ,les,.ises fair r es eems the strong an.l pities the weak. I. b ,d, churches for the r.ch and chapels for the poor, . 'jve alms to the helpless and advice to the smtggling 'bu one that .s worth saving will die before he l i7acc!n et^yrnd"":. tij:. ^'"-- '= -^ -- -^"C "In a sense I will ad, ,it, Hannah, that relirion is a good ,h,„g, ,t enables men and women to endtre what ehey would not otherwise submit to. That is the wav i guards the peace of society. I, sometimes restrains [he desperate. It often tnduces the wrong-doer to adont more tolerable methods, and always compel! the o ^resse'd take more cvth^ed means of righting their iron's n other words, it makes men endure wro'g ml he! ' ly and seek to right it more peaceably. Without ,"." fluencethe p*r would kill the rich who create pole,, and grow fat upon want." Poverty shuddet' '"^ "°'"''"'' '''" ^°'" ^^'■'' "- "-"^ wi'l' - don, bear anybody tll-wi,,. j.-, „,i^,^^,^^ did not know these things Ion- a.T„ r, , i wli,l.i ,^ 1 *" S 3go. it takes a cood ii „r '?™„tT!^-,°- -^'« - ''"o-v at the' he. rii Kiiil ginning I ought to have known better, for instance, than f 22 ■'^fCh-rA/.E F.AST.VAW to give up my chance of success, ,n K • «"-'. "- profits, hLdt s ,, .ti : in:;:""?''^" ""• ■" "^ -. Then r sho,„d ^V^'Z^Xn^i^V'" she started toward the InT'ro , ''" assnr.ngly, as l'°" '"""s'« "'°f« nng It oMr the doctors than anytliing else." " ^VeIl, Hannah," he (rasntvl cfiii ^^ r '■.'• with a glean, oi n.irS ll f .? "'f "'1" •"■-■"-". now unti I've shower? th^c^ *i speakjng of just neither a fool „o T Ir Z V" """"' "''"'^ """ ''■» .'>i4 «« a„'j;: "J /---/'•-- .^^^^ "o.,hat there's any really ,JoX,iaI,"; """:""" ;;•;. since I gave np ..y cVance't't r™:":";";^ foolish no^bV T e I orTdo'T;"^ '"'T^- " ^^^' ^ outside of natural laws he does thro., f I "^ menfs Tfc ■ • through human nstru- p an:f;o:Lrr;:ni;ra:fs-' - buffers to soften the jolts otLi ? '" ^^^ ^' '■slowup'the strongVhent e/'et o ; " 'r'" ^" That's mv idea of tv. ? ^ " *°° ™"^h steam. ^yiiyicleaof religion and society. The favnr r i extends to tlie good man who runs against ll laws and eets hnrf Jc .i -against these natural 'lau gets nurt, is shown on y by inclinincr fi.« i of men to sym,)athy. For the vveak TlT^ , '"'''' ahvays human." ' ^""^ ' Providence is lit ¥\ J ■/' #--#-^ 24 ■yrKr.u.E /usr^rAx. I ■ -..I who, despite 1 IrZ! •""' ""? "'■''»">■ not new, Sether deny '.l,ei ' fo" "^. '"f" '"' ^°"''' ""' ""'- times, but you cannot deny , ha, T"!" ^f. '""' ''""' ilential for us Af,„ ,.„ , ""''^ ^^ Provi- ".= '-^ utii-inr bo!:! °T. ^r;;r::- "v--"'™ -' •so to hear you roii-h u-I^.n "'•''^'^^ss'-^'l the directors '■t house." '"' "°''^'"S f^'- ^'« l>i>t the poor- ^jNot. so bad as that, Hannah, -it cant ever con.,, get better? " "' "'^''k^ng for nothing and you don't ^"oir\r;Lr-:^:r^;Hannah,you ought to settled close above the b;oad JZ 'T'?""' "^•"^^^'^^' resolution can.e into the .^ ' ^ "c^'l^.'^^^ ^[ '^^^^^ help being buried as a paupe bu t T, " '""^ "'^^'^J'^ for living as one." ^ ' ^^^^'^ ''" * ^»>' ^"-^cuse " But, Jonas, you wouldn't ?" „v j • her lips as ashen as the ha,r abov , ""'^^ '^'' '''^'^ " There'll h. ""^ ^'^^^ temples. husband rignifi:;:,/"""'-^ °' "yn..n,e,^-an.ve,cd the .lo'lhl;r^°""' ^™"' Y™"'" ^hame: ,, ,s snnply ,he debt hunrani.y owes to one whom God or human carelessness or wrong has stricken. Bu" » en one havmg strength and willingness cannot get .1 e chance to earn a living, i, is because son.e clast have Ob an.ed more than their share of power and privilege and use ,t to restrict others' opportunity. 11,en tte pauper becomes a slave, and he who accepts cha ity a dog. 1 lien It IS a man's duty to die ' " "But It would be wicked-how could you think of any and did not live in a Christian land." "I don't want to worry you, dear, but do you think your Christianity much better than my heathenism ? How long IS It since you have been to church, Hannah?" 1 he man spoke tenderly. "A good while," the woman answered, looking down and picking a thread from her rlress chlXCnP^' ^ ^'^^^ ^^"^^ -' '-y --^ ^»- ba Jk'::d t;'h°°' ''' ''-' ^^^ ^^^^^ ^° ^°'^ ^- ^p- "Now, what was the reason, dear?" dowJ°o"n^"r ^T''' ' '°"^^"'^ SO where I'd be looked tha '' 2 . '' "• ^°"' '■' '"^ ^^ '"y^^'f' -^ ^° do cnat, sue answered passionately. "So you did; but don't you see that what you blame 26 AWRl'AU-: I-IASTMAX, even ,„ .avc you from »l>a„K^ 1, "l^ct, ;""*''''- my hca,l,e„is,„ are ..enainly off e Z,e , ,'' "'"' pose both r.,„ back .„ .„e I,„^.Z, 721 ^ '""■ t.mes we call i, „nde and .o,„e.i„,es sc"f"e„ ec ' ,. "" not tauL'ht us hut ,,..., , respect. It was If. a vtr^;„;:r""'':'^ '">■'■""' ^'O o,. na,„res. poor-bo,.:. ' , aveV plCr'T" ,?" ""' "'^ '" =• o/:r::::^'bLl:;;:'1^tJ;;^7'«.-d.a„, strike was, anyhow " ' Providential the pe:x^:c;:t;'Tb,:;:r* tnovv as I would have roLT^ '' '"°"'=>'- ' '™ ''"<>-. 'or five cents for dayT w e, "l ,' '""f ^"^ '^^^'^ No man can live in ,"e d'v ^'■*" ""'' "'""■ "8'"- and decent, on anyhlge, 'a.td', "'T- " '"'"'>■' ""^ ■he purpose God 'had ' „ " ub b " t'"' ,°' '°''"'' 'r'ff"«.h~'r.r -"' --:^^^^^^^ - company i::^^^:^^:^:::^^: £: '7- ^-"e r rofttr to'"'- "'-'^ A'tt^aTs J job and you were out of food. I helped the CIIKOXIC UKUmir.KK, »7 0>v„ers to grin.1 ,he workers down ,o ,k-no„,lenre ,n,1 wc-ak„css. It was the meanest tlnnR I ever ,1 H ,, b.,. as „„ick as I ,,, it ,,ovi„e„,.o t'.rn ':; ^^J fe I smtply obeyed ,l,e natural, ,n,iversal law «; in ... f.o n,e :;tar;,:''^'::;r::,;:- -::'::: worse than I had served them. IJut 1 was 'lin ^ of Number One and so Vr • i ^ '•''"''' because 'Prov en^he nA ' 'T' "'' °" '">^ '^''^'-'' rovuicnce helps them that helj) themselves ' If they .,,-, mean. That is really the lesson of o, r ri t.amty: take what you can get so lonrasth Z cWt" interfere, no matter who's hurt by y'ur taking it I doesnt mean to encourage evil- L\„ ^ ■ * beneficent- bnf ,•„ , ' 'ts ///r>w is entirely stron. it h I "' '° '"""'" '^'^ patronage of the strong It has to be a little blind to their fo.blts T company finally conceded part of vvhat th- I only right and they could wdl afford to :vbr:tr stuck to us 'scabs' because we'd sold ou e 7;^ to I' them refuse the whole. That's what men cal ho, ' among thieves, you see: they let us keep o" p ces ^ cause we had helped them keep what eve ybody kn t they ought to have yielded That'. fl.« , ■W. yc„,n« rellow ta/e nty • rt,„T'::'aM.r " '"^^ '" .He re/::^::: ■•»:',.*?, -^-^ "-'^ -- -* -■ The w,fe spoke with an air of triumph now. an. ;o::r::ar wT; feTot^d ri^- / ^^"'' -= tecttve, and what other reason he can have for mixing „p ('. • \ 1 a8 An-Rl'AU.: /-.iSTAfAX. in the rriatrer I rm't i-r and so„K.,i,„„ ,.„■ „ ,H ;; „.^':,;'t;;"' -"« every day 'l>e lioitest of ii. ,ve talked ? . ^ ' " ""k during ™me Cher thing,,, too '1 l *- ' """"" """ ""d '-est in .he affair '.„":,r:r;r'",'^'^' ^"'-'' - the stde-valk and stood I I'w L 7 I , '^'^ """ ''^"='' "> When it was over I ... e « ll" "'' """■"""« 'I""' ous-like, and hoing afraid hl-'d '*'' " ""^ ''"^''^ =="• would have been too™ et f '' '°"'"'""« '<"'■ "'"'^h --;:-"--..at;er.;:,::j;r''''-'-^ were clenched, and o„ o h f I ^t *'"''• ' ^^'^ ^- "^'^ from which the blood wf ^ " "" °" ""^ knuckle langhing, pretty wheezv-lie ,„"'""''■ ' '='"■'''"'' ^^Ip suppose, thinkfng 0?,! ft i"' '"f °/ "^^'-''^y '00, i ""ing if he hadn't go I't f ''™''' ^^ ''™- hnrt pretty ba.l and thoull ' '"• ' ''"=" ^ ™s iol-. but I wasn't go gt ' „"""' Probably the end of „y -i"- -Yes, it ^JrZ^X^:tlT' '''"'"■■ - • ^erve.' -How's that?' , ' ll "" ' "7 "">«•" I de- men were getting j,„, enoni , ' '""'■ '^h^e and wanted a littfe „,ore Ttv "T" ^°""""ably on Pu> in an,l g„, .h,. J'Z f^ ""* " '" ''"'^ ''ah.-s is what I've got for ^,7 °" ™«" '°' ""■^'^ And ' i-nno.vic anvA/nr./iK. » nkcs „ves-,vomcn ar.. always worse'n men at suH, . "cs -a ways egRi„K V,„ on. .S„„,e of .he men coo " ,"'l'', "■'■" »■"" "Sh""!,' .11- tl,e car, said: 'Well I vow -only, you ,„K,crs>a„,I, it wasn't ■ vo.; • he said" all >". one „n,st he polite these days if he has to li ol ,' - )o . re a cool one/ said he, -,/,„„ ,„, „ ,,,„,, rhen a queer thing happened. The wotnen turned right aronn.l as soon as they hear.l the ,nen snelkinTw chief at the wateruig-trough and washe.l n,y face an,l "hers brushed .l,e dirt ojf and sort of rigiLd °'e where I was su.ing against the telegraph p.tle. , "w," ».^y much, for I hadn't any breath to spare-seemed a i every one I drew woul.l cut me right in'.wo. K a fy'ne of err, asked ,f I wanted anything. I. struck ,„e a 1^ for I thought everybody could see I wanted abot a^ n any ,h,„gs .as a man could at one time. I knew ha scf T:^ ' r-f,"' """ ™- '- "- "■" *» any,:! g CISC, said. Is there a minister here? ' Then thev all -holding the, incMoXdrat'tTiiLr.::^^^^ -nop:rt';LrL':pro;^;;t'°:r.- heab, r eachave^edifyi,.^gd-::r::frrt,rtop;: to a lull-fed congregation! ' "Then there went up a shout, and one man said ' H.'« noch.kenrandanothersaid,'Ifheiriraga:e I m 3" tnmi-AUi KASTafAff. '"" 'he nex I knew I t " "7 "'"" '""PP^""' *<=„, The conductor had 'sHnned I ''™= " '° *"'''Wes. .*e superintendent « want no pay-just send ,1,. "" """' ^^ didn't *em to ^an o'« t Toli f™ h? fr " 7"=" "= '°" stables. So the police teD„"d f ' "' *" ^'' "> '^e "omen on the sLwalkl^s. f' ' "' '^ "^"' '° «- •Come on, ladies, and tike a ide HhT '"' ^'^='- Pense. I'm the first driver the I -^on-pany's ex- could treat his friends to I rid T'""'^ '""" '''«' "^o "There was a dea on t" "",:" '"^ °' " ^P°""' ™d we started on. Evervh 'd """" ""''"' '"' turn things had taken tul^fl ""'' '" P'^^^ed at the ".ey took me 0, t a "h stll 1 ^ ° f""' =' ^"- ^-n -« thing I kne; I'trt': .'';i°/ th"'- ^"^ '"^ I s'pose he^ould ITo^ trTlS" b.: I^^"' '«"' °"- to let h,m, if I can help it So n!, '" "°' «°'"S look after a little business at Gar f"'"^ "'•'"°™" 'o -ch I can stand a. th::.!''.-:';;; ''"" ^"'' ^" '>» But to-morrow is .Sunday, Jonas.'- . Jer^thaff '" '' ^^--'^' too," sa,d the husband jo- cosely, t a is as near one as we're ever likely to get to one again, he added bitterly. « There's Brother Kishu's c urch right handy by. We can hear the a.usic Zl think how nice it would be to go to heaven in that kin of J elevator-and attend to my business at the Square, "What kind oil>nsiness have you got at the Square Jonas? asked the wife with good-humored increddity ' _ It s public business, Hannah," answered the man with suspicious gravity. " You see, I've become a pubhc man since I was hauled around in the mud on a pubic sreet public characters always have to get dowi into he mud, you know. Just now, the city fathers are trying o open a street across the Square, and they have inWted me^to^go and look at it and say wliat I think about the "You!" "Yes." "Jonas Underwood?" "The same." " Now you're making game of me " " Did I ever? " _ "Did you ever miss a chance to! Who sent vou the invitation, I'd like to know? " ^ "It was sent me by special order of Judge Riggs " ;; Who brcxight it?" asked the wife i'ncre^dulously. ^ It came by special messenger," evasively 'It must, for the carrier hasn't stopped her^ for months I suppose I was out when it came? " "onms. "Jonas Underwood, you fcno«. W, „ot so. I l^vcn't 3» MUJiVALE EASTMAjV. brought a letter or any other scran of n old ^.-../into this hc^.e in a ZtM "'''" ""^^ ^^^^ "That's Zti" ''''''''■''^'^ -- the' invitation." mats another of voiir ram,..! cu you dare," the wife re,„„„!l ^ f ', ■ " "> ""= ""^ 'f threateningly '=^P™ "-- '"» " I /o°Sk "<;'*:, f=''>^'"-8'™s -=« "•-' -=; were dyLg '" ' "' ^°" "■'""" '""^ y«<^Joke if you .■-T:::ryT:'ntho?"'r"'' .he husband dryly, -u Whose wifeTaTsri:::,::^: xi^t;;r."-^^v ■Mlsl. THE CNO-J^Cir OF THE aoLJJEA' LILIES. J5 CHAPTER II. THE CHURCH OF THE GOLDEN LriJES. The Church of the Golden Lilies had been closed for more than two months. The dust of th. . T u^A ^i.1 i • , '^^ °^ tne broad avenup z\7^ r.x'" v ""' ' «- '■' "•' '» - me twice ten thousand pieces of stained cdass which enects rather than grandeur or simplicity. Only when he eve„,ng s„„ flashed through the window high above the pulp., m the western gable and fell upon the thorn crowned head, with the wreath of golden lilies ju t abo:e silent and empty by day and by night. All the oTef .ndows were carefully screened lest even ,h r tteed hght m,ght d,m the freshne.ss of the matchless .Wrior Bu, tw,ce m ail the sultry summer had the softly modu ated chimes told aught except the hourly me sar o "me-s fl,gh,. The fitful breezes of the dawn TheXer nigh ':fr;";',*^ """'"« "°°"' -<> *^ »"« « ^ night ahke had borne to the ears of the city's toiler! g«tmgs from the tower of the Golden Lil es tell ng ha h^d dl f T'- ■ ■'"" "^^ '•" *= -™« *e ch ch had done for humanity during this time- the leveuue :i4 ^rCrA^r^f.l, /.ASTMAI^. «ooe some- '°o, that the full Zl ' ""' ""'■ " -'' known "- sun's triclc and ^ el f:r';r\^T"'™^ ""■''"« ">'"atio„, by shining thro, I """' "' '""^™' iHu- -'I casting its „,ellow Igt , t°tT ""^"""^'' "■'""<'- -th an absolutely rapturw^eff H i""" "'rist-head "'ghl after nigh, for these rarfdt >'"*'* '""' «'="'«' -gh. brot,ght consolation o lo ' f H ' ^" "^ ''"P^ ">= of ><.e faithful bells were nonTb;;;:' T" "" '™- <;hord ,n some weary soul thVt , """^ "" answering '-ed impulse or hig'her rlsoCl *"" '"" ^" ^^^^ »' "et? 1 mce only i„ all those weeks h»,1 ,1, ^ I'een opened-once to welcome fh I "'"'"'''"' ''""^ accdent or economy had cowde/ " "''°'^'' ""P"'"» '"'"■" It was a dull, deprelt' T" '"'° "" '■'-»'^'' '.our was „,„r„ing and'the br I fstr-v '/ """='' «« The unused church seemed fu of '"' ''' "■ f:.v ///./a-.v. the cer mon,, commenting, in what coul.l hanllv he c-allenfo.^^^„_ ro,'„c, u , , rams have washed ll its white front. The golden text upon tlie door has been 3- been freshi; ^' '^ZtZ'''^ """^'' "'^ ''tar, «ancl like heave'nS.po", •,*""" ^"""-^ ^P''", .ha "f '"= eorgeou, front, „";";' «:f"'"t '" "•">" "ngle -d newly-painted fran's ZI h "''"^"''""-'^d .Fps *ow like peep-holes am , ,11', "","' ''°™"'' "hi 1. -n'^^'"- '•-;be arsirthtrr ;rt%*^^ ^^--- good and rich are all afield and , f '""' '"''=" "■" -"aimlessly along .::^-™t:ei-7hr::^^ i'l! TU£ c„r„cu OF T,n, aouu-.v uur.s. 3, pav,:;r ia,. :n :xt ^f"*-^ *"= ^^"-'^ "-^ the so„„d of foots e,« Tl!^ ' "?"'; """cuseo.ned ,0 flanks the cl,„rd Zi, ,J f '" ""^ '""^ P^* "«> show to„cl' , „ ' *' '°"""™^'' ^'■'= beginning ,0 yelIo,v e ie Ibo" 1T""° "" T^" '°"^«^- '"f, green above ,e w elr d d-HV^'' .^''°" "'^•' '»"' It is one of the citv. I ,, ''"' "'"'"='' "' ="""■"<-■'■■ dressed lot taTe 1' r^^'"="' '"" ""'^ '-l»«ahly elderly gen^ „':.';:" 'l^^ " """="'■ ^°"- enjoying .he sunshine. I^k; are 1?™, ""• 1'="="''^ caps and pretty faces ,„! , """'e-giris, with white canes, who'watd, e „ s^sTj'.C"' Tl ''■"" '="'«= with their charts TI./l u '^ ^° ''^'='' ""<' '""h are shedding dS blot hedT""'""'^ ^'°"« «>= -="- ping their gfeen LlL . t' '™°"-*'"'ed leaves and drop- The leav s r„ t e D 1:: „'""" ""'^ """ "« Pavement. dresses br, g KlTT^.t. Vf'' T' P^='' '^=- them daintily. ^"'' "'"" """"'^ crushing wh!:h;:u,:'dtt:fft,r"tar:i'd"" °' ™'^''"'-' vestibule of the Cht^rch of ^l^^Z"",^"' *" mer sun and wmri 1,0^ • ^'"cn unes. I he sum- change had" dTven' tfth: Cef of "st -r; '"' '"" and over-work "R,Vi; ! ? """'^^ dissipation theverdicto the n.o a :f '"'""' "^ ^-^ ^-n them mount th sh^ n..! r"' ^''" ^'^ "^^^^ed the waiting ushers Th """r'f '''" ^'^^ ^^^^^'"^^ -^ every mien The!" ' '°"''^'"^^ °^ «"--^«« -as in of thL^a l^asTiUin'th"' gaudily dressed-not many there was a richn ss Ind "7 "'"""* '' '''' -^^--' richness and costhness which was more im- il'i - f- ,.[ 3» ^nrA'i:,u.: .v/.v/^a./.i: Press.ve than the gleam of jewels V. , '^ck.ng; but they were notice" ,e f '" l^''^ ''''' ""^ profusion. •oiiLtahk for qualuy rather tJ.an Tlie men werp Int.. .,. on,K.„,„j:;l\: ;::;--;- *e.™„,e, an,, „„, lllcre was a dass who scen.c.,! if. . ' ' '""'K" '"'■•ii. tl..ln ,1,0 „,l,ers. One wo .1 T '' '''"' """' »^-'f-a»»"re< =0".e „,rif,j. seekers oVI,,r' >'""""">"= were no, "- Golden i.iii..s „e^a,le oT L .'Cj^ir-;' ->" '-"-^i me,nbersl,ip. n|,o can 1,1 , ciiaracer of its "f A'.an,„,,;„ if ,;,:;•,„":': '^^ '^^""""-i -,.,„,» ••>«|„ai„,ance muler favo al,k° ,, °l'l'°'"""t>- lo n.ake x---e.,,,e„.a;^:-:~-f;;r- «- :.:;f r ;i:; r.^ going season, AI,, (Vil,o„ Ki , T"!^ °' ""^ <^l""-d.- "■-^ congregaeion. Ti "cMce ' ,'''"'''"« '^''""'" "f ferre.l,oas " KisI,,,'., ch„ ^^ T" f'"°'' '' °f"=" ^'- hat: been ,ie,lica,ed. InJee.l ,l! '° ""'"' by^yhich it been given i. a. his snggeS or ,"""' "' '"''' '" '«-e e»ce ,o his leadership h e '««!, "' ''™''"'^ "' ''e'er- ^'".Cion. He was no I Z "" '"''T' '° "^ ""■ on the roll of me,„bers, Zutll "''°'" '"'™ "■« t've turn ,ha„ ,heirs ,o el ,",,'""' '""^ " '"°" ^'^'■ more ,ha„ any „,|,er .oLr ,he . "" ''"" S'ven and was indefa.igable i, a,l ' r "°" °' ""= ehureh, furnishing and a which sil^TZ^Zl "'"' '"'™-'°™ -no.,ngeo„fide„ce,,oa,„oreelU.:;:a:r?he1,'; .he historic «™c.u., > ,r :,::t; '-""r' =:"■' of the will of T>r,^. • 1 , '^ '•'^*^'' i»'I'c-ition aba„,ic,„c,l .■.„., ,„e altar „f ,|,e ,„„ , " , : ';' 7"'',^' more convenient to Ins fav„,x,l d,l. he , ,;,'"■""*■ some ivlio shed tears ,f ,1,, """"i-i.. I lieie ivere sa„ctif,e,l i,y o , ,v ,w !t"™?"" "', '''""I' ' »""' .hose „HoL ,e:;;:;::sio:": ::;;;,';;:"'i;:;7-'- °' Of course the^ cc^^W n . '''^'' '^"^ ^^^^ «''^"t- "f .he new lifi r'.! 7 "'"" """' ■"'''<''= "'e walls I ! 40 ^/CA'f about hi:, former bretl- •'/■/• /■:.is/\)/\ i.v. grette th a^i lie was not only ren. It ■IS a Io:;s very deeply emostliheral, ofti, It e c f^ne of ti.e richesi, but re- ^'^"grt'gation ;va.s kno„.n that some of \\, among """Wo ,„ ,„„.„„ „„ ;,,„;,;"."-■; ';''' "■-.,!..» „.„„,,, (,, they sh '"•"' agreed that the '1 niission, Life. '"• want of one to l,reak '*-"'■« '"iglit at no to them the Brea.l of The price ,l,e l.rewer paid 1"; ' '7'," "' "'■•"■• « '"=•■ ->°"gl. lo b„il■ «a. half ""trigh,_a„ ace of .,,;„■" '':; . J''- K.^lu. gave ,l,e |„, "«aWe pro„,p„,,,3. l,y It :■', ,"r "•"■""^'< -'1. 'he value of realty i^ Z Lm. r ' '' '^"''""■^-'men, of - accident «-o„W„a *,,!;';? '-^'htorltood, which, Besides this, he defrave, ihe ', ' '''" '" ''" «'*" °" h'- for either before or a^Lf .^ ^Sr ,!: ,;: '° "^ ""^ was enabled to nm fh « • '" ^'^''^ manner ci.eaply ,l,a„' „ ^Z^t '\ '*""," "-" ™- 'he clerks, ,hey „.ere nf ! °'-'" ''""'^- '^^ 'or employer'.; favor h; ""■'' ""'""^ '° '=''"" 'heir 'o serve. He ,i d „« .J "';™', "" "''"'= " 8"oea„s he oi,.ai„e,I 1 L^°, ''! '"''''"' '," =»'"'^ ^y of bei„g a very libera : rZ /"'Hi" "".'^'""-'°" his clerks were em„ln., , ' *^"- "'" 'avontes among paid by .he z:^t:i:^:2::t r- ^--^ vice was very nearly faultless ' ' '" "'"^ ="• earof'^t:r,i;'';t;ir^t ^°°^ ^-^ "*°-" '■"..ffected warmth." He ta3„oVr,"7'«""°" "''* Golden Lilies but 1,^ hi , ^^^ ''''™'«' 'o 'he "■es, but he had a genuine affection for every i. 43 yrAT.i//-: /:.isr.)/,ix. one who added to it either h>-.I.i. r • not move from this nla ..t I [ T''' "^ ^'^ pass through the do ^ , 'j'^^''^^''^' -^ '^-'e to a «hake of the hand, or, if ^i'^ iT; .T^r''^"' ^'^^ contented then.selves with the Zl ''^'"^''^^'y ^'"yaged, ture .l,icl, showed l,is r I ilof tl" ""''■""■"^' ^^^^■ So the bells rang ot.t a Tl ' ,'"■ '"■'■'^'""^^■ of the Church Of ^:^or7-"t;;;:;°"^^^^^ ;nto the,r accuston^ed places. Th we" 1 ,!"" ""^^ faces; some empty seats- h„f .i ^^"^ "^''•'^"gt^ --ennghty wave of ,nj" h iri '"''^'"' ^^'^'^^ ^^^ the splendid aucliton„m h "' ^""^^"'"^ "^^^^^ while the soprano r 1 i:f:r "t:';^"^'^"^ '^''^ of the coming opera season ' " '^' ^'"'"'^ '^^''^'^ CHAPTER III. LALEIN. The pastor of the Church of the Pni^ t •.• catch a ghmpse of the assen,b mg o^ LtL i" ""^^ •ng a finger's brea«•„ habitats. He « a ' a„ . 'r T^ *'" ''" "-'' as sunshine, and tho.^h ,' ^" '°'"'""'' ■-'°-"' « "-"^l' - on .hon, -;iX:::::.: ;r ;r^::;'-^'-'' -et. He tfl, ef .ro"1"a.""""= °' "" ''■- <^our.se, beina -,„ v *°o-that was a matter of ,-achts,;,ano7; „r„"'™"e:;:d'r" ^"°"'"'^" "'^ '^ h™- Mentally l,e w;= W™ ''l-f ''"n; women admired "il3-,he seemed : L/forTT """ """■^"'^ ""•- upon God and an „„„ co':.:;!' rS"^ ""^"" '"« 44 MURVALE EAST.UAM. was „ teaching which they soughf? Jf J''^ 'T "'■ °' des.re that impellecl their assembn,' w t"l """ ""■' was it, and what was his rehtilly!, l?''^'"' ^''=" only "a f„™ of worsib " al7, ""' Christianity 'orm? A cloud se" 7,,,,^ 'l! f "^^ «=""-« .hat .loubt, had ..everdo„bted :;• ;f "^G "? ^°f "ot and truth were fundamental post t„r ,''"'"'=="«• And tlie Christ-ah if hli ' °", ^'" °f i"^ existence, be quite conte t. Did e uZ ^ "r'"""' ''= """ "led hi„. He turned .y" ■ h a JX' "T't '""■ Pa« up and down the spaciou! ! J^f ''"'^ '"'«" "> ^^'hy should he question I T e path ord'TV'""^- not the Word clear? Was vj ,< ? '"^'^ ^^^ no. Christianity the sa,e-a rays':,,!™: ''''"' '''' foreveri' Had it not been oneZ „ ' "°"' ""'' peoples for countless ge "era. „„s> t "T ""'"S "> ^" -»W Was the Word' a,„a s Went caTiL r' V '"= was ,t one thing to one aire n ,. "'Sn.ficance. or more or less to'anoth r? ^ii! if™;; ?"" T'*' '"' not seen all that he ourf,. ,„ i '"^ """ •>= had ought to have lnow,?f ', "e'r ''"I """"^ "" *^' l-^ .0 declare-of theTlL 1 ''''*'' ' '""^ undertaken sion Play of life? " "''""'^'^ '" "« ««« Pas. ab'vVThrrr wh- ttrr;?' •"! ^""-^ ■'-- -« inBolden letters in thVol;:"^,,!': ':■'•,/;;: 'f' '""d servants, that with il! h^i i , " ^"^^"^ ""^o tJiy He ceased .f,:r:s':s-:-:s-:t: Ulmtn. «'ho placed the leeendTll''""' T"'" '"'''' '»' '^" ""■■ day when Mu™ L !"„» T ,f """""'°"' °' *- -dbe troubled by ,hetLpo«>°' '"" "^ '""-''^^ ■"-red with that instinct ;e trl ' ", '° '""''." "' ""- -"lich characterizes t\T\' ^. "'''"" ^'SniAcance "Hardly ' boldnesl^Ie :;r " '"= ««=" 'ongue. Lave «y,„>.<,y . boldness ll?' ""' ""'""■ " ™»'' <" speech they prT, ed )T T"^'''"" ™ *= ^-ality needed 'boldness', hat, ht T'^" '° "■""''"■ They He walked more s 'Lk'td r',7 ""."""-■" said musingly. " What / ., "''• ^<"'"»' " he of it before' It was r t,kl f "™'" ' "^^ *°"ght ■beloved ph.sician^Ltristreril'eTr"''*' caned upon .o^^.'U tTXTT^^ '^"^ ' ' have been set as a ,1, T f T '^™1''' °'''"' "'hom all that I believe abou; ' ;'^ ''"-'"" *« ' '«'■ P-pose, the n, ssion : t ""^•■''■°"«'"' "^ Christ- ^aw I?" "^ '^''"'^' to man? Can I? troubled Vcl;:rth:-;:;i:r" <:r r ^"-^ -p™ '-■•^ grew white. His hand h . ' '''""'^^ "'"' '"'^ "ps and wind, grew sudd ult'coirH "m^T ''"' '' -" as if upon the deck of L ,- "'"'""''' ""''" '"gether «orm. The bel L j i^^ jf , '" *^ ^'"■" "' a summer -• Upon the ta^: ^ ",1 fd IL^'hl" ';,"= f'"" i.ic lay njs hat and gloves. 46 ■VUKI-A1.E EASTMAN. i Before hira was his sermon neatly tvne-writt,n •.,. • lelter, creased and worn. He took ,1,!' "^ " ^ hand and mechanically turned ts^l -n '"'"" '" "'' begun its creetinff to ,(,. u ' ^ ' '"^ '"'S'^'' h»d the summer vacation *"/"*'»"'' rea.sen,bled after boird h! !,'"'^"°"- A" "rt.st (.resided at the kev- hoidm/trrr^nltrZ "1r^, """" ^" ^"- door from the audience-rol « "P""""' *" attitude of „rayer, Clrd . S ^d Sr"; 'V'' confusion, whispering to Mr Kiln '""^'' '" speak a last word to I is ! '.o^ t^ H "'" ™."" "^ '° " was this good mans'h b A tr kinT™' '"^'"" vas.,j ;::t:;7".» '""- '•«';lts „-o„Id foM„,v. ""•(."•""ig Ins ye:,r', task, g„at ''he one thing that rl„. r- i i P'«ei,,,„no„.„;n,o I ' . ",:;^" ""'^ "-I-' ."co,„^ "<»'S efforts to secnre on ■ h "■■'■■' '■* "'"■■'<■ Stren- ^Pecal work a.nong ,,,e "l^t f ''"'" "''"P""' ^r ;'-)".."gme„ of The CO eiL.r°' ■V'"™"'"S "-eby '■" larger „„r,ion of the you ,?',"■ ^"S'""'^- ™°ugh^ l«7 "f .he ch„rch. I, see, «, "T" ""' »'^"''>' "«">' -•"'> '"en,, as if i, ,vere Wd, ° "' ' '"•^"" "' course ; >0"M ren,ain out.ide the o ' T/T "^ "'« ""^^ Lalmlv, 4f ? VVJiat [ation of to hesi- Kishu's barrass- ' a feel- • Kisliu on his loment !r and !tnian great coni^ tien- , hut for eby 'gb, em- irse ley ed ;rs sn "f 'hcuMvcaltl, and social position Of *'f -eans could not be expected ^o ?' f T ^'^""S men ^■'^o'i'os. Such things ' ^'''^' ''^ •^^^"''J '>-^ve "a real of" ! "' '^ ^'^^ ^'"'<'^"" J'^'-es ^'^'^t he could W r" .^^•^'^■^'■" ^■--•'iering "'•'"-'^all the meL s'Z:V"^T' '" ^'^^ -'^"-' -s wont to say, already ■< ., ^'T^'' ''^''^^ '^ ^- ;ji« - considered an ^trl t,:^]^,^ ^'^ Johl," bicssnig. But neither tlr'. „ ^'-' ^^"' ^ ^''^ine ■•raiilt. More tiian onrs iJ ' '" ""= '''^'^''"1 fU "'m,il",'l' '°"«>"-'"'°" "V" '""^m to "run ■•'1™"'' "" GoMc, Lilies, i.^ declared ™m " ""■'■'^'' "' ">= to call ,l,e,„ sueh-:„.|,icJ, 11^1 l' "■""«'" '« ^"°"ed cl...rcl, occupying a fe T '""'■"'>' l™P" '"' a ''>""gl.H,ere',ni^U litroT'""" """"■'■"■ «-"-■ --t.n8.s, he doMl„e if C ,r?i ^"'"''""^ « »-" -.,1.1 l>eof „„c„ a.Iva ag Torln °r ?. """ """ was a slirevvd ohserver of T ^"t' ™"^'=''- He '•e had l,i„,self see o M,''" «" "'""' ""'' '™" -''« ''>ecus.o„.,.aca.ion;::ir;.;r,';!Lrrr 4 " '^ 'nroimation t;o ^'f'/^'i'.i/ /: /■•.Is /■}/ IX .>atecl U,o,ofn>„, the ven-^;!^'':;::, ;--•-■ Ivisl.i.-s Clunrh " Sn . ^"-^at Revival in Mr. vfimui. ^<^ while oihcis wondered If fN« barrassniont of ♦!,« • . '"""ntd at the em '"We.l his hand, a.,o vo .Ik- r :„i """"'■ -'«' -"■■^' ...::::Li: ri.;;": ;:t';"" -^ -- was al)out to experience. . ^""Srcgat.oh The congregation of the (Minrch of thn To' i r •,• "'ere very proM.l of ueir p.stor f "'" ^'° ^^^" '''«'«« ^P'-ung fron, a fan.il v hot " , ' •?' ^"""«' gifted, perfect gentleman "T '"^' nch. and witiuil "a noted ,ii:!:Cf thr:h :: xff,""^^^ ^'-"- -orn.ons expense, he^,:''!';:^::^---^ Contract law to do I..., . ''^■'^ «''"<-" Alien Labor ■ cl,„rcl, i„ J ;„e lat " , " """" °' "''' '"'"- • , land, winch in trreat !>nrf l-m.i i ■ .. -'^'^ the money of the rich hrewc' Tl m ''" ""' ti'ought, when Dr. Ku.limon" , o Iv ""■' '"'"'^''^^ newpuipitahathewou.d::e^:^t;ri:rn"^ the brown sT^eo'JZ. '"■'"'', "'"'■ "^ '"'" -'"' '-W of Go,!, n..ceml,ei- - „n,V- •, T °'''''''™" -ve.i ,„e Cl„„.ch of .he Gol.len Uhe, "S:' '" '"f -..e,uhech4hr:::s.r-:^rTf::; I ■u.rjx. ^\ ait u) n.ivc It iiiiders oo( t i;it flu. r\.M i -i- was Mr. Kis,,„.s .,,„„„ ,,„,„ ,„„„ ' - '•.<.- fnu, „ ,|„s wise |,olicy of •■ l,„„,„i„. ., ,," ' " ^- '^ V' l"M..„uyofrc,„r„i„,,„e avor I \ , t' "" ""■ ^>.. Ki»,„. I,....„„, , l,.,„sel,o ":,■',?!", """■"■ revered name. iMuIiinon a wh!,":,;,:^:';:; i:-':;:;;:,,:,:' r'";"""'"-' ^"""« "-•- -- .i.at Mr. Ki.,„„ o,/,.: . ; ,::>,i -™;.'i-'- ory, an,l the Church of ,hc C;„l,l,.„ T ''"'™'- Never before ha I hT^ •""•■"' ""'' ^"'* ^ l»»'°'- t'uwic or .h™ r No n;;:'::::'""^"™ "> -'^ ---•". ..lous a„,l hroke,, as he „ ,, 7 '*''"' '""""''■'^^'' '""" •e«, while the cr.:,, ,'L 'Tvi:-. 7'.: r";'Tf °' "■■» sliookso,>er,e,,tiI,lJ,l„. '''''' *"=fore him faees .va„, befo:e hi ^Mr S . Z "" """ '"^■■' mixed u,, with the s»-eVf t. / '"^^ '"'^"S'^'j' 'laughter and a Irl- ff , "'""tfnance of hi, nc rim the u urms were gnawing s« yVRVALM KASTMAN >n a costly tomb across fl,e river I.'.,=, man to lmvc wiv fn ...J ," ^'''f'""" «'" not the I" i,'^c na) to nervousness, however M,« „„• i '"•I'lcup. The color came bick to h!; , '"^ """^' ^^^« to l>is eye and hf. v.; , ''^'*'^'''' steadiness the word:'of his ;::r ^^-^ ^•^"" ^'-"«'> - '- -pcatcd .i,.^:xr" /.. ... ., .,, ,,,,., ^^ ^,^^ ^ ^^^^^ Mr. Kishu'seycs opened; so did his mouth A M, n "f s"'P''se, ahuost of horror, ran thrond, 1 1, ^'' 'n>e sensation the n,ana,Jr p S d '"'''T'""' "•as not of (ho sort he expected What ' ' ' ^^"'"^' ^"^ '^ "'c Church of the fV,i I i ''"' ''"-' ''''=^'o'- "f .extatat,:^^ t^^^^^^ -ci the strike wh::;;r::.^^^^^^^ was only half settled ? ° '""^ '" ^''^ ^'^X CHAPTER IV. PLUSIUS AND PENES. If the conq:regation of the Church of the TnM r •,• - were startlo, bv the tevf fi, • (^olden Lihes were still mor. .. U t ,! ". '"'" """""^^'^^' ^'->' rented his subject Tier 'T" '" "'^'^'' ^^^ P^^^ unruffled flow of well rt ' "?''""^' "^ '^'^ '^"^"^^^ •>een accustom: .""I^^.^^/^^V" ""■^' ''''' '^' ^ient attempt to lead h he ^rs Lfr;""' ^"" '^" -- famih-ar to his own feet Hio ^ . '"^ ' "°' ""'''■^'>' recent forgin. Hi. ! ^"^^'^ ^''''' '^'^ '"^-^rks of presented. ' ^""" '" ^^^"^'^ they should be "'There were two men in one citv '-fh. w'lc uiy —the jaw^ citv. l'»v= ,io„.,, „,„ ,4 -..^U . ' : ""' ""'>■• I"" i" "n ll,ae '"" "' •"' 'li"'" ami ^'•■^ '"!' '" "'«-■ '-"•< alone, ""-■ "cA ■•.,,,1 U,c poor. aT " :' ''*■ "'''-•• "■^"- ""-" I"-„ke.I .1,0 .,a,„ in out : " "'-,■■ J"«a,„.i,io„ l,a,, -"I ll.e o,l,er Poo, ? Mn„ ll /"" ""'>'■ ""^ ""<^ >^" '. -"' 'limine, an,I .l.vCl A t ;' T """" '""' «■'-»'= " These -..•,> • ^^^^^ '" the same city? ' a... civn,: a^. ,r;',r; .a"? ""■■'-"'■'■>■• •'-■.,, "ft-> ccl,oo,I, ..„no, , I :' -"""■■^" ^^'-""ni-y has >vitl. a ,Io.vn,var,l infl,.dion on .'■''"''■' '■""' ""'"•^""K: ""'- Provokcl m,l, i* "o'n,e i " '"'"'' ''»'= -"- ■n.c-y co„3,i.„,e ;„e ir,:, , ;:;:/;';''--;'i -vr„„g. fcra which cad, groanin,. To l '^ " ""''''"y P™!'- and el,e Poor ,„ g,o.v focvt , ' ''''■""' ''■'"-•' '<"■"", •'« Poor, ,i,e w„,:.;7,'c ,^s:"^ ■'""'" '^'^'^^ • ••"'" -ae chief s„ppo„crs v!,: J" ^^ ^'"''^^ -sa,.,e„ I'Kion, socieey, and (he Poor t ' So«i-n,nenf, re- o' discon.™? and I,- " rj^Tr^l '"= ""^''"«' l-^ttcr to he rich than eo be w ,1 '" '" ^«°"'no,l ';■-.■ . i .1 -»'uc.>>[ 01 all to so ve, Kac,.neJ:a;:ce':::L:,:s,:';''r;i'.T:-r"'^' after which s to.o ',,"", """'S', '"•■• ^""agedclo,,. of an evil i. f,„al„ „':,; ^ '^Z^^^' '"= -- fl'c, between Labor and Capital Ih '^' ""^ ""■ na..,es for convenient abs,7 ^, ' '""" ""^ ""'V '1- Juggler with w:: I tot: ' rairr':' '^"^ "■'"^•' "f gaping n„,l,itudes. iCe i ' ' ' '^ ""^ ^™"»'='>'en, hood in them Thev .rT , ' ™»<:'ence, no man- force. Whose rela^Ts ar^trr/fo,;. d''b"^;'' T^''''""^ mula, regardless of ,„^„ , .°e'°""' '')■ algebraic for- '."n.an wfal a, d „o Th 'l";;™"""- ''""- ^-'^ .-".d ".ere is no such fa t as Ca, i.^l ""rT" =""?- ^^^or, ™ntras,evorter for his daily bread, he cMd of l ~'"^'- one, a ,„an having more than hi '^''"""^- '"'« baviug always to st Zle for enor'h "T""' *' "*" •ion define,! the relation of H * ""^ ''^ """^^ " e care for the /I^! ' T" "™ '"" ' "'''X ■'^bonld "' "^^ ^'^'''<^'''^L)oiit which we nrafP? \\r u. • "- ^ eoat, the bedi„ening of a son,: Tr is'X'n application .,n„„„^„ , 'S "■•y tl,o inevuable res,- If ""f" '" "'I'l'l-g P<:n. " I'Insius and Penes- K '",'"'■'"''= '" ^^^ Hien,? "eit'l-bor,: thcy 'd.vcll i,,, L '""""."'="' ^ 'hey are „„r '""« in ,he ,,a„,e J A, T"" ",''' "'* "»-»"-- alike. They iove and a.e • A ]' !''">' "° ''">■ "'"-1> like Ihe oeher. riu h, ' ' " "".'' ''"'■• '^d '^"'^'. each or Penes n,ay be , and P, ■ "'" ^"" ''^"" f°o>-h- be good and Penes bad "fr P r' '" ""■ '''"^''^ -'^y »i"S foul. Man for man P "^^ ''^ '""•= »'"! Plu- Penes and his friends Kr^a.lv , '^""f ■""' "' ''''■ b-t Wends. P,,„i„, i, ap,lri« r r"""-" '''""■"^ ^"d his he is better fed. P^i s s ' ""^'-e-natured, because Penes the braver. .ene, S ' "" ='"-"'e'. an.l »d Plusius pronts hv the „ ™ ■'™;'"'"' ^'i^^vcries, children and delights 'to e" '.h ,"", """ '"' ""'"' -"'' Penes loves whom he lots i « ' '■'-^" '" ^^^ ^I'l-e'- "ches to sec them over-Jo ke,/r , '■™""'''- '"'» hear, grovs wild when ragV a, di ,' ■''"''-■'' ^ ^"'' hi-" brain change places son.e.in e, t H '°'"^'' "'""■ ^hey contradictions. Then Pl'JZ T"^"' "' "'= is full of have been like Pe e'sand """' ''"''= '"■o"''' evc-r have been like Vl^^ ' """' '""^='' 'ha, he should "oi'cll';::;:: *~etwee,, ^ese classes, „„ are alike. You re, tXrT ' '"^T '"' «^""'- *ey --"--• -hast;,;^„:!r--he-|.. 5^' Alil^l'Af.E /:.IST.]/ ,.v Poison..,i„g, i„ babyl,oo< ha e If,™ T" """' ^^ -la,„. fr„,„ ,„e ,.„„„,. Z.n^m"^'"'""'^'' «? watched continimlly o>or l,cr T ,.' ' '""'')■«""'' ■•'y "- forced u ,o„ '■ n' "^ 'T':^ '" ,"- -- >v.ilins.,en.a„e, in.U.ed upon d i ' 7 ; he; SoT"'""' "P a queen, sleek and briY-hf n„ 1 , , '''" «'^" •i'-, .ha. pay cou „ t; b ,.„"; '"""■■"'■"« '» iTown, ,n,c„„,ely ,v„rl/e°s Lan • °"'"' «'■•■'" '""' "■',-■ labo. co,t .;;:':':::: 'i-,t' "-•;- '™,. '^'>:: -"-n be like .hen, ,oo, al, b„, ,h' drol^ '^"""' 1" like manner Pl„sh,s differs from pl. natine, character, or word, P. '^"^'' "°' "> Ws hands .hat he n" I ve p""" '""''"" ^"'^ -i.h Take .awav that ,m '"«• '™« ""«/. That is all. ".e one f:L,?,t"::f:,r'-^ "'■>- -'"" no.dis.ingnish -7be1;;;,:::^'h:""*"" ''^-"^ "-"-<' "-■.. rtividna. exer.;„ / f ■"" "''"'T''* """" "»■ ''- ">■ order .ha. he n hi id' " "";'"' "'■■" ''' "'""W i" labors i. is M 1.0 ' „ T- ""' '"' "' ''"""'"<■ " '- luxury, power, or d.spi;" p" e, Z^l^'lr'] "'""' '" 1 )• ^ <-"es, on the Other hand, WW/ work— work or suffer ,> t " !'-"se fro,,, a „„„„■ ,,„;' f ° '" 'he hope of ,,eo,„. ■nay „u,„ber ,! e ,|ay„ o: hi, | ,j , "'" ■''••""<^- I'lusiu, ,"- 'ee,, or .„e chL of ye . , rh':" °' ?•"">■ Wngt ,. I>= •>■ rehevccl fro,,, the hard „ i '" "'"'"' '"'^ "^'J^. Penes' .ho„l,lers. B„. fo.l""''"™' "■'"■■=" '«' o, be Penes, and Penes, rti,," " """'' '''"»'- ""fc'ht So they dwell ' in th between ,he,„_,his waillhtlrpf "'' "''•"' ""''' ""' "'all be torn down, and „,,ich P e , T"" '""'" ^"•■"' "<« »"Ie, only ,0 join with Plul^ |' 1'"'>"' '^"'''■"•oring ,o «eds. Plusins says he Z °"'"y' '< be suc- -« Keh-gion, .ha,'socta l:::^: f '""'• °'"-"°". he barner between hi,„ an, T ^ '" '••■'''«'°" *at In .his he is right, if b; • ^ L ! ^ """ '""'" '™ain. >nd conditions, to-,lays lifeT„i 'J] """ "''^""8 'om„ ^ "But is Society right 1 ," ,"" "'°"e>"- has always claimed to , ; S^ "^hf entirely right? j, accepted the same standard orilr* " •'"" "™ ''"'^'y^ P'-oved the same forms. J,"'"' ' T '" '" '■"■* 4" ^-ncLonedalle ,1, at one ti^," „r V"' """"'e"' it has every crime. Evil is often ,1 . !"°', '" " '''' "Pbeld "-• Only a few cen.ur es a" «• '" ''°°" "^ °"en measure of Righ,, Then tl el ^ ' '''"' ^e "teral jecfs only safeguard. Not it'"," '"'" ""'' *e sub- 'he virgin to the'lord's emb ,ce "s a'", ''°' '""'^'^ ^ave 'ime ,„ our own land the n^^, "^ "• ^^'"'i„ a life- 'be soul he owned to t^i H: T' '""'""^ ^™PeI "" 'o his lust, or take life for I i hi n 58 MaSr.llE K.IST.MAff. disobedience. Soaety has l„,r„ed men and defiled wo- men; beaten, crucified, slain old and young, fair and fou" the man crowned with a noble purpose, tlS clnl," t Ja and woman b,g with young. These things it did a hvayl m the name of Right, of Law, of Mercy,! order to pre ■serve ,ts mst.tutions and to save .he w„ d from ev 1 me„ who taught that Society was not infallible In the old days Society made martyrs of those who questtoned ,ts dictates, in these latter'times, it brands hem as v,s,onar,es. And many there be, in g^od sooth that deserve ,t. Of them that were slain, not all were martyrs. Of the.n that clamored for change, no a fl soreZr""" '°* ^=' - °"-ll thfr; has com: bes?:::ig'::v:::ry:;'^'^:"s:"' 'vr/"- ""'"'= than they who seek for change, because the many fre apt to be wtser than the few. Sometimes the few in'oct late the many, so that then the multitude come over to the stdeofthefew. Then Society changes front and diae and denounces what it yester.lay revered. By and byte ook back at the change and call i. Progress. Somedm: US and sometunes it only seems to be Change fo X sake of change-,ne:e experime„t-is always evil- onlv that whtch weaU-ns wrong or strengthens right is wise ' T';™'. '». Society is most likely to be right because ..has Rehgton on its side. Sometimes it is one re igion he idell of T 1 ""'"'" '' "°' "'"^J'^ 'he same; ^1e Ideal of manhoo,l not universal. Tos up as its religions ideal '"^ '^' '"'"'■°''"' ">« " Our own age in its vital forces is n.- .■ Jty .s builded on Christian ,e 1 ^Ti °" "='■ /'« mterpreted. Is i, nerfec? r , "'" "'' ''^'^/"■" exemplification faultless i> The idea^f '" '""==""' "» 0' hut: ri;s :: ^tt^Lr: *^ °"^ '™= -"«p«- "% pause to argue? r't 1 "'"' ^"">' ■•«" '-uits: -B,. thefr fruit 'rslSf '" J'"''«™^"' '» eighteen centuries last nast'I, ','"'"'""='"■' I"*e any and all other forms ^fh ' r ."S" co,npari.,o„ with 'ione to human ty and th!'"'"f. ''"'"''^<' » 'he good ">a. would impea'ch t' ^rV^l^'^'y. "P™ any claim. It has s not al ways been V i . i ( 60 MUJiVALE EASTMAN. gh , nor always the same. (Let us speak the truth whether he heavens fall or not; that is ail we little ones can do for human betterment.) It has worn many guises- the cowl of the monk, the robe of the priest, the mail of the oldier. It has shed blood for error; crucified for unbe- .ef; burned at the stake for innocent dissent: and sanc- tioned the sum of all villanies.' Every age and people have colored It w,th their vices and their weaknesses ; but It has exalted the virtues and glorified the strength of each Jnder its influence man has grown in stature, in iberty, m aspiration, and in courage to demand his rights It has sometimes upheld the wrong; but much oftener sustained the right. In form and interpretation it has often changed; m spirit and the claim of beneficent de- Xabir"' '' ^^' '""''"'""'^ '^'' ''"''' ''^''^^^'' ""^ "" "Society, builded on its infer/>ntafion of the Christian Ideal, boasts ever the immutable character of its require- ments, forgetful that Religion teaches what we believe raU.er than what we know. Society is but the shell of religious belief, its visible form and expression. Every bursts. Then another grows, only to meet a like fate Forms are never eternal. The shell that is big enough for to-day is too narrow for to-morrow. In correcting one line anod.er is deflected. Our society is the visible'forn' of our Idea of Christianity; nothing more, nothing less. It I the popular concretion of Christian ethics, of the good enjomed and the evil prohibited by Christian philos- ophy^ Is It perfect? Examine your own measure of what answering"' "' "''' ""' "°^ '^ '''' ""^°-' ^^^-^ "One thing is indisputable: Christianity has fitted itself fLUSlUS AND PENES. to iiuman needs hptfi^r *\.^ *o.,gh, and I b': t ndeTi 1 7 /°™ . °^. -"=-- t.on ,o.,1ay than ever brfor" .I ' '"^ '" "^ ^'l^^"- 'l«eiope(i a truer better n,,„l , f '^""s'^qiienee, it ha,, l..evi„tsly known The , H °, ,""" "'= ™-'' '«^ ^'ver in .I>e fact .ha. the 'eard^rn ""'"■'" ""^ '»'■-"" and demand it more honejf f """"= °' ""^ ^'">"K. .hey ever did be Je B« S ' ? T' '■'"°""'^'>'' '"^' of .he accepted Chrtian idealH '", "■^"^' '^ '"^ "P°"^nt angry prop.!;t to beTol? e S^f t^''^ °' '"= gard to iruntan conditions. Is i, , " j T,? T '" "- ;'jur Christian .i.,_.,,:,;riich"a':dtX' ing with Peter and To'm w 7 T "'^^'^^ '^^"^ fish- Wis-ered. His :!• s "ere btc 'Tnt ^'T '""'• ^^"°"^^''' ish gaberdine coarse and gnW "n 7?' """'^ J"''" Ws feet, and sweat and d, sTrf..r,"^?""?'"''™S"l''''-'i in peace, after the Tetrar-^V r ^',' ''°'''- "<= ««d for his daily bread T^ ' '°' """>' >-^"= 'storing «'>ere he mi^hr^d asl",.'^, ™^,^:;« ^^";'. 'ivi-f among the people. Society di^wn^'H ^ "^f content nized interpreters of th^ rv • ^"® ^«^cog- The Roman's des ised Z T, T" '°"''=™='' "- tnisted him A lover ^T' I'-l ''°°' "'""^•i but dk- cou„tedi,ima,ramp relli" '"'"" '""■ Society Poh-tically he was regard f™ TT'' "™ ^ ^=°''"' Hardly one in this a„die„c wo„M „ ""-T' """"''"■' <" enter the front door, l" a 'st IT" ^ -'""""P^" "Whip, we would not tat,. „ ^" ''""« "=<^n we ■We have no use for rai a , °" "'^''' '"'"^ ">'^^'"a.e. He wore poverl^afa ::?:,:.",'' ^""= ^"' '" P"^ "-.n.' 6a MUR VALE EA STAfAA'. i A startle:! look flashed over the upturned faces of the congregation as they hstened to this picture of One whom then- fancy had so i- God,' who reguLtes a"l on?re H f ™ '°, ""■= ^''""''^"" S'-'- "■'■an he ca assuag™' Th;° '"°' " "^ ^PP'="'^ '^ - ""- hope to assuage. They may be very unreasonable, but a ht^nirv man shou d be nardon..,) :f i,; i ■ ■ nungry fauUless. P^don.d if his logic is not absolutely "Plusius regards the matter quite otherwise. He ex- P am,, that wealth and poverty come by divine ordainmen, each being to Rich and Poor respectively a mea^s of grace, poverry being given to one as across and weahh .0 another as a temptation. Of course he would rath r be among the tempted than one of the tried , but it i' no 1 [ °4 MURVALE f, A HTM AN-. a matter of choice. God, who knoweth all things hath he contends, 'ordained ,.ne to sickness and ::Sher to tiealth; one to riches and another to noverty,' ^.n merely X ^1^^f''"^^'^^'^^^^^'^^^^^^"-^^^--' &lor3. A^ealth and poverty, he maintains, aro essential condmons of the divine order, without which Society could not exist, and consequently he who seeks to limit Of remove ..ther of these co-ordinate and immutable con- '^mons, IS guilty of sacrilegious a.-^ault upon the divine Purpose: is in short, the enemy of Society and the foe of God. Hath not 'he whose word can ne'er be broken' said, The poor ye have always wiih you'? and if the poor of course also the rich ; since it tollows, as the night the day, that where the one is the other alu^ays nuJhe So the two men dwell 'in the same city,' and if Plusius' view IS correct, must forever remain, ' the one rich and the other poor, types of the eternal will, examples of divine justice, love, and power! IS a true, of to-day's appointed task as it was of yester- day's. Plusius and his friends may be in error, Penes and his friends may not have sought aright. The angry eye IS rarely a faithful guide, and the to^ch borne by T bloody hand seldom shows the road to truth. Thus far P usius and Penes have indeed dwelt together ' in the ame There have been many changes in their relations-and ^t IS not yet certam that there will no^ oe many more- wu out shock to Society or harm to i..n,;ion. uTs for us to determine whether there shall ho , or whether the pitifu; . .ry of the past shall be t.r.. n .^peated " Murvale Eastman had stood with . u. crumpled letter PL USIUS AJVD PEAr£s. ff5 common I .„., „,, ,„ ,„. Xy -; - I^ light. A moneh ago [ received this letter Th. ^ j •hat penned it was already cold when i relched me A a n,e™her o, this congregation, the wri;^:rb4ed nie ft: should Cess uto^the r°""' """^ "^"'""^ "'^' ' Ti,. . , "^ "^ P°°'' <:°ntentment with their lot rhe demand troubled me. Of the poor-the weak hd„ le. poor to whom the Master referred when he I d'-T "T Why shonld f reach to the R^h of ■."hett-Trpr, retur" tot? T " 1"",' ''" ™™»™'' ' '* ™P="eTt « Tr ^* "■ ' "'■■""''' ''"^»' ''hat Plusius thoud,, From chddhood I have been familiar with his v ews r hough, ,. needful that I should know also what Pene 'elt. Dunng the period that has intervened since The rece,p, of this letter I have tried to learn. I have led I poor man's hfe, in a poor man's home; but I have not learned much. The heart n* = „. i ■ book Th. 7 P^°P'^ '^ "ot an open .-«e];rrl^;rr^^u:rct„-t 66 .vc//^r.j//c /-asta/ajV. h i J f itk )i L'lies has placed before the eves of il ^" know that there are \]U tr.r . i • i ""'"^^n ills. I only been found and i I Ir " ""^ '""'"'^ ^^^^ ^'^"^ ^'^r e edifice. ,lr„„pe,, fr"™ ,' ,H 1 ^ '":^" P^^^'^' »■'>"<= >vinB in which '4 ,he" i Vof to ■"-" ""^^'Wown tor's study. The soLh , f ?"' ''"°™ "^ >!« pas- t'onal pane of heve e iX f T' """' """ ''">'« "«"- like edges of which te, ed , V r '• ""= "'""""■"• polished surfaces „„^ "''' ""^ '"'""'""'^ f™"' H.eir ^'.^e:!;';,„::,:t':::r.:-':r, '■'^"' '-^^ ^ ~" -^ «one. which\„.':T,;^:^--' ""'"• "^'- -"«- 'narked the setni-privlte chari 'T'""' '^°""-="'' l^"' «» not a parsonag TI cl , ,": "'=""''•"<=''■ " 'lid not .legrade its n =, I ''' °' ""= '^'°M=n Lili-s 'eady-„,ade ho m ?„d ' ?/ """'"S '"™ '"'o ^ oas.-ir, , <" .-tl parlor rd'ir;;;t"«j,'";V» '™-'--win both allowed him to choose sc'lnd ' ^'"' ""' ^'"='''' ^"'' "as only his otScial residete "'"" " "' '" "'■ ^I- city'^'^SotethSS^rr^aZ-'f,'"^ '■""''"■■''- °' -e italn^o-tasanextescencT 1 r'"' "'"^^^^^^^-J >vas ght, and not opened UL^ai,, nmTi ^^''^'*^'" hour every "corning. No Sn!f , ' "^^^'^'''^ '^°"'" '" ^^e plants and trees wf^r^ *^ , ' °"v native walks of the ;" c," „™ ' „! h'"''' """^ ™''- ^--''ed Heed „re .oV. lived LtT^ r^' " *' dey a,e.i, and was ,o contain „„ s.rucu re's e' c n T cte;:f,rt-; -seconder td.er„:^ Hens;,a.e:;„,s:ar"„rc?;:r"^^*°^™''-^- close he had Jitile kftl . u"' "•■"' ''"'■ A' "^ skirts of the c ' Jr. '? '"" '"'"'=«-■-=«' ™ the on,. end of the park l I °"" '"'' '^'■'" »' «>^ ^O'-lh of acres which t'h o. " '""'"'"■ ^™= ^""''«''' sorbed. Al ,vb^ ,„"" "« metropolis li„l, by l.ttle ab- which ran y rte'io?,,*' '^'^'"''^ "< "'<•■ " -» «ree, >vi.h co„ve„ir„?::r, ,rr:,d™ i'^a?" ■" '"°^*^ prices for residenr^ ,. b^'iares and sold at remunerative buttheparkheh,d,f7r^^! '^^^^^ the owner's death; park he had stubbornly refused either to sell or to 0.4A'/)/' /■.//. /;• /:V/ s r. ?/.•/ AT, "■ork a forfeiture of the bequest. ^ '^ ' "^ '° The gift was a verv hberal one aiirl tl,. ,i becanre as popular as the prev.^^s onfl tf™" " ,°"" way across his .and had n^a'e hi u„ f ™ ^ VJ! f'"' ene„„es, the ntarke, gardeners, could no ' admi , J! ■t was a very pubhc-spirited thin.> to ^„ u- ' ;ain that it wo„,d inu^e to .h^l^ad^ntg T/a^hL-t:" :";'f:cnt^'Tj:sr r'"" r- '""—■' produce was sold One of "hem t" /' '" "*''='' ''"'' Ciey Council the acc^ptle of"h rift ,' "7'" '" *= Of .hanks to the dono!^. "iZ t i "e s h rA™" completed, and the deed of gift enrolled o„n executed in duplicate by both par ess was tr T"' ;n those days, an ordinance L paLed d c ein^'l"; he plat of ground thus conveyed aid accepted s"Lt forever known as Valentine Park. When all waVdl . etrxt f' r """ '°'''«' '--' "sa^^t i It except when he chose to open them to the public Th?' occasioned no little dissatisfaction, hut as the 'i't already deriving a handsot^e incom from hi doc ' "' erty, the public concluded to put up w tZl k i ■'"■°''" what it deetned its rights un.if ^ZL^'^TZ^^ as he ™s already well advanced in .ears, ctld 'nl^'t ' J"d:Lt:,,t™xei?L:'l''°"""r"^^^^ iiherality and patriotism T "'""*' °"'" ^"^ »' sentiment, howCr 'len uZ irr^^l'ar.r'T "' ««« in his will for the opening a'rc'lotinro'f fh'e g^ GARDE X SQUARE cent enemies, tl,e .ardenerfp ,1 i , "'"''«" '''■'' ^"- cus,„„,e,-s to go am tr , °'';' "^J' '=°"P'--"ing their »iuare. The city in e , 'T °' "'""='' "'<•■ ^«'• -'l -Phaticaily as.erted 'by 'chri::: i g T GaX sf ''" ^.::[te::::;t:d r -' ''"^""■"" •'- >'-"-„?::,: "ouM be Efficiently CO ,,, tL,"rr" °' """ ^'" part were opened and cio ed at tht ' «"'™ °' '"= "■ill one day in each ST., "" "^"""^ '" "'e .-Biectfor L-: e J^ i;'!?;" """"^' -''^ "^ con,p„a„ce ,vhich shon.d ,vork i for e, t,™"^: .°' "T' man on th s beat wn« fU c '^'^^"^- -Tne watch- «ates "every tl: ^u^'^: I' ^ ^^^ - ,^'- -he "pen tliem the Fir.t ,1.„ ^ '"= °'''°<=''' and without fail" /h t! '"7'."8 "' "^» of 'he dock, ■ vented, an.l ,1,' c ,'. '"'""'' '''"'°'- "'« -^i"--"'"- oteerving tetero c" vT'"^ "'^ "^"^'"^ -*o„t The fa„ o r """'"^ '° "" ''"I""'- "■ill. P..W c ben It "' " Tr™' '"f-'P'-")' the case •stanc s, and bram, bv dr'' t "" ''" ""'"•■■" -««- by and by dropped o„t of sight, four-scr,. rl 74 •VC'RV.-tLE EAST3IAX. DortL T • ' ""*■"■ ""P'°>"'' '° '"« ""^ "U' re- ported hat there were no heirs in the male line, and that had been unable to find any living representatives upon the female s,de. A daughter had given birth to a daugh ter, who had marne.i somewhere at the West, after which no trace could be foun<. of her or any descendants The park had been well kept up because of the fund provded for that purpose, not after the manner prescribed however and the gates had hardly been closed for fi,,: years. After the probable failure of lineal descendan was ascertarned little heed was paid to the conditions o the bequest Why should there be? Only heirs could clatm a forfe.tnre, and of them there were none left The old walks were paved; new ones made, many of the ■nd,ge„ous trees were cut down and showy exotics sub- o Blalock, a dozen telegraph poles supported a network of wires to make way for which the donor's favorite trees were defaced and beheaded without scruple. Fi!,a ly I splendid group of tulip-trees, which he had planted with ' h.s own han.ls as a centre-piece, were cut ,lown ilort o afford a convenient location for an electric-light tower Year by year the income from the dock propertyTn: creased; year by year the park was " improved " by „" expenditure of a moiety of this fund upon it, and year bv year the people enjoyed the dead man's generosity fn" heir own way As for the Fla.-iron Tract, i, had Lg ago reouired Z ""."' T'' """™"=- ^"^-Sh the cifv Z axe " n„I ' °[ «'" '" "^^ ""'' State and county taxes nothing was said about municipal taxation. When SOW and bought in by the city, again and again. Final , Ihe cit,, by advice of counsel, e.xecuted a quit claim to GARDE y SQUARE, company .o .uf.h'eifcrdt" ^^K^ ^'-^'-"-^ stead of having ,o „,alce n Z> ? '" '""''■^"h in- i" o.der,o pafs .h !.„;„" "'f ^'°=^ «"- "X people who proeested f,^T "^ '""" scientific called "^pie,:::. . o", Ta4°:r' ''T' '-^ - sacrilegious, and now and then ilL , """"S ^'"'°=' 'hat the course the citv hid ? ''''^'''■' ''''"' '''"cd breach of trust '^ ^ ^""""^ "^' « outrageous But the press laughed at such " old fogies ", ^ ■ out how necessary it was that th. .7 ° ,' '' P°'"'c