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sliort terms. "ButflFu'hTTn"6Wnor ; prob
ably fearing revenge on the part of the
men , did not push the matter , and
most of the cases went by default for
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Mr. Winter's manner toward Philip
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by him at the peril of his own life.
There was a feeling of genuine respect -
spect , mingled with feur , in his de
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as the minister and the wealthy mill
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sacred ground of friendship , even when
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life. A man may save another from
hanging and still be unable to save' '
him from selfishness. And Mr. Winter
went his way and Philip went his on
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CHAPTER X.
One day at the close of & month
Philip came into the cozy parsonage ,
and iustead of going right up to his
study , as his habit was when his out
side work was done for the day , he
threw himself down on a couch by the
open lire. His wife was at work in
the other room , but she came in , and ,
seeing him lying there , inquired what
was the matter.
" .Nothing , Sarah , with me. Only
I'm sick at heart with the sight and
knowledge of all this wicked town's
sin and misery. "
"Do you have to carry it ail on your
shoulders , Philip ? "
"Yes , " replied Philip almost fiercely.
It was not that either. Only his reply
was like u great sob of conviction that
he must bear something of these bur
dens. He could not help it.
Mrs. Strong did not say anything for
a moment. Then she asked :
"Don't you think you take it too seri
ously , Philip ? "
"What ? "
"Other people's wrongs. You are
not responsible. "
"Am 1 not ? 1 am my brother's keep
er. What quantity of guilt may I not
carry into the eternal kingdom if I
do not do what 1 can to save him ! Oh ,
how can men be so selfish ? Yet 1 am
only one person. 1 cannot prevent all
this suffering alone. "
"Of course you cannot , Philip. You
wrong yourself to take yourself to
task so severely for the sins of others.
But what has stirred you up so this
time ? " Mrs. Strong understood Philip
well enough to know that some partic
ular case Had roused his feeling. He
seldom yielded to such despondency
without some immediate practical rea
son.
son.Philip
Philip sat up on the couch and clasp
ed his -hands over his knee with the
eager earnestness that characterized
him when he was roused.
"Sarah , this town slumbers on the
smoking crest of a volcano. There are
more than 15,000 people here in Milton
out of work. A great many of them
are honest , temperate people who have
saved-up a little. But it is nearly gone.
The mills are shut down and , on the
authority of men that ought to know ,
shut down for all wiuter. The same
condition of affairs Is true In a more or
less degree in the entire state and
throughout the country and even the
world. People are suffering today in
this town for food and clothing and
uel through no fault of their own.
e same thing is true of thousands
and even hundreds of thousands all
over the world. It is an age that calls
for heroes , martyrs , servants , saviors.
And right here in this town , where dis
tress walks the streets and actual want
already has its clutch on many a poor
devil , society goes on giving its ex
pensive parties and living in its little
round of selfish pleasure just as if the
volcano was a downy little bed of roses
for It to go to sleep in whenever it
wearies of the pleasure and wishes to
retire to happy dreams. Oh , but the
bubble will burst one of these days ,
and then"
Philip swept his hand upward with a
fine gesture and sank back upon the
couch , groaning.
"Don't you exaggerate ? " The min
ister's wife put the question gently.
"Not a bit ! Not a bit ! All true. I
am not one of the French revolution
fellows , always lugging in blood and
destruction and prophesying ruin to
the nation and the world if it doesn't
gee and haw the way I like it to. But
I tell you , Sarah , it takes no prophet
to see that a man who is hungry and
out of- work is a dangerous man to .
have around. And it takes no extraor
dinary sized heart to swell a little with
righteous wrath when in such times as
these people go right on with their useless - '
less luxuries of living and spend as
much on a single uveuing's entertain
ment as would provide a comfortable
living for a whole month to some de
serving family. "
"How do you know they do ? "
"Well , I'll tell you. I've figured it
out. I will leave it to any one of good
judgment that any one of these project-
oil no.vtia jiiaatiauedll Ue tn.thf > nvoning
& y vffy * '
pailer" I'h'ilip 'smootfied the paper on
the head of the couch "any one of
them will cost in the neighborhood of
$100 to $150. Look here ! Here's the
Goldens' party members of Calvary
church. They will spend at least $25
to $30 in flowers , and refreshments
will cost $50 more , and music another
$25 and incidentals $25 extra , and so
on. Is that right , Sarah , these times ,
and as people ought to live nowV"
"But some one gets the benefit of all
this money spent. Surely that is a
help to some of the working people. "
"Yes , but how many people are help
ed by such expenditures ? Only a se
lect few , and they are the very ones
who are least in need of it. I say
that Christian people and members of
churches have no right to indulge their
selfish pleasures to this extent in these
ways. I know that Christ would not
approve of it. "
"You think he would not , Philip ? "
"No , I know he would not. There is
not a particle of doubt hi my mind
about it. AVhat right has a disciple of
Jesus Christ to spend for the gratifica
tion of his physical aesthetic pleasures
money which ought to be feeding the
j hungry bodies of men or providing
some useful necessary labor for their
activity ? I mean , of course , the grati
fication of those senses which a man
can live without. In this age of the
world society ought to dispense with
some of its accustomed pleasures and
deny itself for the sake of the great
suffering , needy world. Instead of-
that , the members of the very church
of Christ on earth spend more in a sin
gle evening's entertainment for people
who don't need it than they give to the
salvation of men in a whole year. I
protest out of the soul that God gave
me against such wicked selfishness.
And I will protest if society spurn
me from it as a bigot , a Puritan and a
boor. For society in Christian Ameri
ca is not Christian in this matter no ,
not after the Christianity of Clivist ! "
"What can you do about it , Philip ? "
His wife asked the question sadly.
She had grown old fast since coming
to Milton , and a presentiment of evil
would , in spite of her naturally cheery
disposition , cling to her whenever she
considered Philip and his work.
"I can preach on it , and I will. "
"Be wise , Philip. You tread on dif
ficult ground when you enter society's
realm. "
"Well , dear , I will be as wise as a
serpent and harmless as a dove , al
though 1 must confess I never knew
" / can preach on it , and
just exactly how much that verse
meant. But preach on it I must and
will. "
And when the first Sunday of the
month came Philip did preach on it ,
to the dismay of several members of
his church who were in the habit of
giving entertainments and card par
ties on a somewhat elaborate scale.
He had never preached on the sub
ject of amusements , and he stated that
he wished it to be plainly understood
that he was not preaching on the sub
ject now. It was a question which
went deeper than that and took hold
of the very first principles of human
society. A single passage in the ser
mon will show the drift of it all :
"We have reached a time in the his
tory of the world when it is the Chris
tian duty of every man who calls
himself a disciple of the Master to live
on a simpler , less extravagant basis.
The world has been living beyond its
means. Modern civilization has been
exorbitant in its demands , and every
dollar foolishly spent today means
suffering for some one who ought to
be relieved by that money wisely ex
pended. An entertainment given by
people of means to other people of
means in these hard times , in which
money is lavished on flowers , food and
dress , is , in my opinion , an act of which
Christ would not approve. I do not
mean to say that he would object to
the pleasure which flowers , food and
dress will give , but he would say that
it is an unnecessary enjoyment and
expense at this particular crisis
through which we are passing. He
would say that money and time should
be given where people more in need
of them might have the benefit. He
would say that when a town is in the
situation of ours today it is not a time
for any selfish use for any material
blessing.
"Unless 1 mistake the spirit of the
modern Christ , if he were here he
would preach to the whole world the
necessity of a far simpler , less expen-
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