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age and crowding of families. 3 Clearly
the condition of matters was growing
serious.
At this time the ministers of differ
ent churches in Milton held a meeting
to determine on a course of action that
would relieve some of the distress.
Various plans were submitted. Some
proposed districting the town to ascer
tain the number of needy families.
Others proposed a union of benevolent
offerings to be given the poor. Anoth
er group suggested something else. To
Philip's mind not one of the plans sub
mitted went to the root of the matter ,
lie was not popular with the other
ministers. Most of them thought he
was sensational. However , he made
a plea for his own plan , which was
radical aud as he believed went to the
T7ic Brother Mamoas linccllng at the side
o/ the bed praylny.
real heart of the subject. He propos
ed that every church in town , regard
less of its denomination , give itself in
its pastor and members to the practical
solution of the social troubles by per
sonal contact with the suffering and
sickness in the district ; that the
churches all throw open their doors ev
ery day in the week , weekdays as well
as Sundays , for the discussion and agi
tation of the whole matter ; that the
country and the state be petitioned to
take speedy action toward providing
necessary labor for the unemployed ,
and that the churches cut down all un
necessary expenses of paid choirs , do
away with pew rents , urge' wealthy
members to consecrate their riches to
the solving of the problem and ; n ev
ery way , by personal sacrifice and
common union , let the churches of Mil
ton as a unit work and pray and sacri
fice to make themselves felt as a real
power on the side of the people in their
present great need. It was Christian
America , but rhilip's plan was not
adopted. It was discussed with some
warmth , but declared to be visionary ,
impracticable , unnecessary , not for the
church to undertake , beyond its func
tion , etc. Philip was disappointed , but
he kept his temper.
"Well , brethren , " he said , "what can
we do to help the solution of these
questions ? Is the church of America to
have no share in the greatest problem
of human life that agitates the world
today ? Is It nt true that the people
In this town regard the church as an
insignificant organization , unable to
help at the very point of human crisis ,
and the preachers as a lot of weak ,
impractical men , with no knowledge of
the real state of affairs ? Are we not
divided over our denominational dif
ferences when we ought to be united
in one common work for the saving of
the whole man ? I do not have any
faith in the plan proposed to give our
benevolence or to district the town and
visit the poor. All those things are
well enough in their place. But mat
ters are in such shape here now and
all over the country that' we must do
something larger than that. "We must
do as Christ would do if he were here.
What would he do ? Would he give
anything less than his whole life to it ?
Would he not give himself ? The
church as an institution is facing the
greatest opportunity it ever saw. If
we do not seize it on the largest possi
ble scale , we shall miserably fail of
doing our duty. "
Saturday night he was out calling a
little while , but he came home early.
It was the first Sunday of the mouth
on , the morrow , and he had not fully
prepared his sermon. lie was behind
with it. As he came in his wife met
him with a look of news on her face.
"Guess who is here ? ' ' she said in a
whisper.
"The Brother Man , " replied Philip
quickly.
"Yes , but you never can guess what
has happened. lie is in there with
William. And the Brother Man Phil
ip , it seems like a chapter out of a
novelthe Brother Man has discover
ed that William is his only son , who
cursed his father and deserted him
when he gave away his property. They
arc in there together. I could not keep
the Brother Man out. "
Philip and Sarah stepped to the door
of the little room , which was open , and
looked in.
The Brother Man was kneeling at the
side of the bed praying , and his son
was listening , with one hand tight
clasped in his father's and the tears
rolling over his pale face.
CHAPTER XXI.
When the Brother Man had finished
his prayer , he rose , and , stooping over
hie. oa. h/i M0'1"1 1'i"i --.Tiy Tihn tiirn-
cd about ami' faced "Pliilip and Sarah ,
who almost felt guilty of intrusion in
looking at such a scone. But the Broth
er Man wore a radiant look. To Phil
ip's surprise ho was not excited. The
same Ineffable peace breathed from his
entire person. To that peace was now
added a fathomless joy.
"Yes , " he said very simply , "I have
found my son which was lost. God is
good to Inc. lie is good to all his chil-
, drcn. He is the All Father , lie is
Love. "
"Did you know your son was here ? "
Philip asked.
"No ; I found him here. You have
saved his life. That was doing as He
would. "
"It was very little we could do , " said
Philip , with a sigh. He had seen so
much trouble and suffering that day
that his soul was sick within him.
Yet ho welcomed this event in his
home. It seemed like a little bright
ness of heaven on earth.
"I have not seen him for years. He
was my youngest son. We quarreled.
All that is past. He did not know that
to give up all that one has was the
will of God. Now he knows. When
ho Is well , we will go away together-
yes , together. " lie spread out his
palms in his favorite gesture , with
plentiful content in his face and voice.
As spring had blossomed into sum
mer and summer ripened Into autumn
every one had predicted better times.
But the predictions did not bring them.
The suffering and sickness and help
lessness of the tenement district grew
every day more desperate. To Philip
it seemed like the ulcer of Milton. All
the surface remedies proposed and
adopted by the city council and the
churches and the benevolent societies
had not touched the problem. The
mills were going on part time. Thou
sands of men yet lingered in the place
hoping to get work. Even if the mills
had been running as usual that would
not have diminished one particle of the
sin and vice and drunkenness that
saturated the place. And as Philip
studied the matter with brain and soul
he came to a conclusion regarding the
duty of the church. He did not pre
tend to go beyond that , but as the
weeks went by and fall came on and
another winter stared the people cold
ly in the face he knew that he must
speak out what burned in him.
lie had been a year in Milton. Every
month of that year had impressed him
with the deep and apparently hopeless
chasm that yawned between the work
ing world and the church. There was
no point of contact. One was suspi
cious , the other was indifferent. Some
thing was radically wrong , and some
thing radically positive and Christian
must be done to right the conditiou
that faced the churches of Milton.
That was in his soul as he went his
way like one of the old prophets , im
bued with the love of God as he saw it
in the heart of Christ. With infinite
longing he yearned to bring the church
to a seuse of her great power and op
portunity. So matters had finally
drawn to a point in the month of Xo-
veuibcr. The Brother Man had come
in October. The sick man recovered
slowly. Philip and his wife found
room for the father and son and shared
with them what comforts they had. It
should be said that after moving out
of the parsonage tn"a
tenement district Philip had more than
given the extra thousand dollars the
church insisted on paying him. The
demands on nun \v-ivw so urgent , tkc
perfect impossibility of providing men
with work and so relieving them had
been such a bar to giviug help in that
direction , that out of sheer necessity ,
as It seemed to him , Philip had given
fully half of the thousand dollars re
served for his own salary. His entire
expenses were reduced to the smallest
possible amount. Everything above
that went where it was absolutely
needed. He was literally sharing what
he had with the people who did not
have anything. It seemed to him that
he could not consistently do anything
less in view of what he had preached
and intended to preach.
One evening in the middle of the
mouth he was invited to a social gath
ering at the house of Mr. Winter. The
mill owner had of late been experienc
ing a revolution of thought. His atti
tude toward Philip had grown more
and more friendly.
It was a gathering of personal
friends of Mr. Winter , including some
of the church people. The moment that
Philip stepped into the spacious hall
and caught a glimpse of the furnish
ings of the rooms beyond , the contrast
between all the comfort and bright
ness of this house and the last place he
had visited in the tenement district
smote him with a sense of pain. He
drove it back and blamed himself with
an inward reproach that he was grow
ing narrow anu could think of only one
idea.He
He could not remember just what
brought up the subject , but some one
during the evening , which was passed
in conversation and music , mentioned
the rumor going about of increased dis
turbance in the lower part of the
town and carelessly wanted to know if
the paper did not exaggerate the facts.
Some one turned to Philip and asked
him about it as the one best informed.
Ho did not know how long he talked.
He knew there was a great hush when
he had ended. Then before any one
choiure .the _ * t-n"
some young woman In tile music room I
who had not known what was going
on began to sing to a ni'\v Instrumen
tal variation "Home. Sweet Home. "
Coming as It did after Philip's vivid
description of the tenements , it seemed
like a sob of despair or a mocking
hypocrisy. Ho drew back into one of
the smaller rooms and bosan to look
over some art prints on a table. As he
stood there , again blaming himself for
his impetuous breach of society eti
quette in almost preaching on such an
occasion. Mr. Winter came in and
said :
"It docs not Kcem possible that such
a state of affairs exists as you describe.
Mr. Strong. Are you sure you do not
exaggerate ? "
"Exaggerate ! Mr. Winter , you have
pardoned my little sermon here to
night. I know. It was forced on me.
I'.ut" lie choked , and then , with an
energy that was all the stronger for
being repressed , he said , turning full
toward the mill owner : "Mr. Winter ,
will you go with me and look at things
for yourself ? In the name of Christ
will you see what humanity is sinning
and suffering not more than a mile
from this home of yours ? "
Mr. Winter hesitated and then said :
"Yes , I'll go. When ? "
"Say tomorrow night. Come down
to my house early , and we will start
from there. "
When Mr. Winter came down the
next evening , Philip asked him to
come in and wait a few minutes , as he
was detained in his study room by a
caller. The mill owner sat down and
visited with Mrs. Strong a little while.
Finally she was called into the other
room , and Mr. Winter was left alone.
The door into the sick man's room was
partly open , and he could not help
hearing the conversation between the
Brother Man and his son. Something
that was said made him curious , and
when Philip came down he asked him
a question concerning his strange
boarder.
"Come in and see him , " said Philip.
lie brought Mr. Winter into the little
room and introduced him to the pa
tient , lie was able to sit up now. At
mention of Mr. Winter's name he
Hushed and trembled. It then occur
red to Philip for the first time that it
was the mill owner that his assailant
that night had intended to waylay and
rob.
CHAPTER XXII.
As they were going out of the house
the patient called Philip back. He
went in again , and the man said , "Mr.
Strong , I wish you would tell Mr. Win
ter all about it. "
"Would you feel easier ? " Philip ask
ed gently.
"Yes. "
"All right ; I'll tell him. Don't wor
ry. Brother Man , take good care of
him. I shall not be back until late. "
lie kissed his wife and joined Mr.
Winter , and together they made the
round of the district.
As they were going through the
court near by the place where Philip
had been attacked he told the mill
owner the story. It affected him
greatly , but as they went on through
the tenements the sights that met him
there wiped out the recollection of ev
erything else.
"How many people are there in our
church that know anything about this
plague spot from personal knowledge ,
Mr. Winter ? " Philip asked after they
had been out about two hours.
"I don't kuow. Very few , I pre
sume. "
' And yet they ought to know about
it. How else shall all this sin and mis
ery be done away ? "
"I suppose the law could do some
thing. " replied Mr. Winter feebly.
"The law ! " Philip said the two
words and then stopped. They stum
bled over a heap of refuse thrown out
into the doorway of a miserable struc
ture. "Oh , what this place needs is
not law and ordinances and statutes so
much as live , loving Christian men and
women who will give themselves and
a large part of their means to cleanse
the souls and bodies and houses of this
wretched district. We have reached a
crisis in Milton when Christians must
give themselves to humanity. Mr.
Winter , I am going to tell Calvary
church so next Sunday. "
Mr. Winter was silent. They had
come out of the district and were
walking along together toward the up
per part of the city. The houses kept
growing larger and better. Finally
they came up to the avenue where the
churches were situated a broad , clean ,
well paved street , witli magnificent
elms and elesant houses on either side ,
and the seven larue , beautiful church
buildings , with their spires pointing
upward , almost all of them visible
from where the two men stood.
A door in one of the houses near
opened. A group of people passed in.
The glimpse caught by the two men
was a glimpse of bright , flower dec
orated rooms , beautiful dresses , glit
tering jewels and a table heaped with
luxuries of food. Jt was the-naradipp
of "society , the display" "its ease , its
soft enjoyment of pretty things , its
careless indifference to humanity's
pain in the lower town. The group of
newcomers went in. a strain of music
and the echo of a dancing laugh float
ed out into the street , and then the
door closed.
"Mr. Strong , if you preach to the
people to leave such pleasure as that
we have just glanced at to view or
suffer such things as are found in the
tenements , you must expect opposition.
I doubt if they will understand your
meaning. I know they will not do any
such thing. It is asking too much. "
"And yet the Lord Jesus Christ , 'al
though he was rich , for our sakes be
came poor , that we. through his pov
erty , might be rich. ' Mr. Winter , what
this town needs is that kind of Chris
tianity , the kind that will give up the
physical pleasures of life to show the
love of Christ to perishing men. I be
lieve it is just as true now as when
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i ; July 7,8,9 , jo and i.S ; and
August 2. Make a mental memorandum
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On any of them you can buy tickets to
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Deadwood , Spearfish and Sheridan.
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Tickets will be good to return until
October 31 the longest return limit ever
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Unless you have been there you have
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day. The pure air and the wonderful
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Sylvan Lake , besides being the pret
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the most popular. Go there if you
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experiences of a lifetime. Thousands
make the trip every 3ear. Spearfish
Canon , through which the railroad runs
is worthy of comparison with the finest
scenery in Colorado.
Information about trains , through ,
cars , etc. , can be had at all E. & M. R
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Mothers who uould keep their children in
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