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Sheldon - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: In His Steps - -Author: Charles M. Sheldon - -Posting Date: August 11, 2009 [EBook #4540] -Release Date: October, 2003 -First Posted: February 5, 2002 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN HIS STEPS *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Aldarondo. HTML version by Al Haines. - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 4540 ***</div> <BR><BR> -<H1 ALIGN="center"> +<H1> In His Steps </H1> <BR> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<H3> by </H3> -<H2 ALIGN="center"> +<H2> Charles M. Sheldon </H2> <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap01"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap01"></A> +<H3> Chapter One </H3> @@ -573,10 +530,16 @@ spoke: "We will consider the service closed." </P> +<p>He was down the pulpit stairs and kneeling by the prostrate form before +any one else. The audience instantly rose and the aisles were crowded. +Dr. West pronounced the man alive. He had fainted away. "Some heart +trouble," the doctor also muttered as he helped carry him out into the +pastor's study.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap02"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap02"></A> +<H3> Chapter Two </H3> @@ -941,10 +904,24 @@ Endeavor Society with several members seated back of the older men and women. </P> +<p>They remained a little longer talking over details and asking +questions, and agreed to report to one another every week at a regular +meeting the result of their experiences in following Jesus this way. +Henry Maxwell prayed again. And again as before the Spirit made Himself +manifest. Every head remained bowed a long time. They went away finally +in silence. There was a feeling that prevented speech. The pastor shook +hands with them all as they went out. Then he went into his own study +room back of the pulpit and kneeled. He remained there alone nearly +half an hour. When he went home he went into the room where the dead +body lay. As he looked at the face he cried in his heart again for +strength and wisdom. But not even yet did he realize that a movement +had begun which would lead to the most remarkable series of events that +the city of Raymond had ever known.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap03"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap03"></A> +<H3> Chapter Three </H3> @@ -1356,10 +1333,18 @@ home, that Jesus would have done either what he did or something similar in order to be free from any possible feeling of injustice. </P> +<p>He was not deciding these questions for any one else but for his own +conduct. He was not in a position to dogmatize, and he felt that he +could answer only with his own judgment and conscience as to his +interpretation of his Master's probable action. The falling off in sales +of the paper he had in a measure foreseen. But he was yet to realize the +full extent of the loss to the paper, if such a policy should be +continued.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap04"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap04"></A> +<H3> Chapter Four </H3> @@ -1752,10 +1737,17 @@ success and power for the paper. You have not answered my question. Will you stay with me?" </P> +<p>Clark hesitated a moment and finally said yes. Norman shook hands with +him and turned to his desk. Clark went back into his room, stirred by +a number of conflicting emotions. He had never before known such an +exciting and mentally disturbing week, and he felt now as if he was +connected with an enterprise that might at any moment collapse and ruin +him and all connected with it.<p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap05"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap05"></A> +<H3> Chapter Five </H3> @@ -1981,7 +1973,7 @@ different from the Sunday audiences he was familiar with. <P> There were a dozen rude benches and tables in the room, and when the noon whistle sounded the men poured upstairs from the machine shops -below and, seating themselves at the tables, began to cat their +below and, seating themselves at the tables, began to eat their lunch. There were present about three hundred of them. They had read the superintendent's notice which he had posted up in various places, and came largely out of curiosity. @@ -2114,10 +2106,12 @@ assistants had work for half an hour but they went out by another door. </P> +<p>At seven o'clock any one who had looked into the superintendent's office would have seen an unusual sight. He was kneeling, and his face was buried in his hands as he bowed his head upon the papers on his desk.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap06"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap06"></A> +<H3> Chapter Six </H3> @@ -2462,10 +2456,18 @@ to regret it if you do not accept the concert company's offer or something like it." </P> +<p>Rachel said something that contained a hint of the struggle she was +still having. And after a little she went away, feeling that her +departure was to be followed by a very painful conversation between +Virginia and her grandmother. As she afterward learned, Virginia passed +through a crisis of feeling during that scene with her grandmother that +hastened her final decision as to the use of her money and her social +position.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap07"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap07"></A> +<H3> Chapter Seven </H3> @@ -2994,10 +2996,15 @@ tent's beginning to run over tonight. That's what the talent calls music, eh?" </P> +<p>The Superintendent turned toward the tent. Then he stopped. After a +minute of indecision he went on to the corner and took the car for his +home. But before he was out of the sound of Rachel's voice he knew he +had settled for himself the question of what Jesus would do.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap08"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap08"></A> +<H3> Chapter Eight </H3> @@ -3454,10 +3461,32 @@ which it was done, and declared that they would all do the same thing if they were high enough in railroad circles to attempt it." </P> +<p>It is not necessary to say that such a condition of business is +destructive to all the nobler and higher standards of conduct, and no +young man can live in such an atmosphere of unpunished dishonesty and +lawlessness without wrecking his character.</p> + +<p>In our judgment, Mr. Powers did the only thing that a Christian man +could do. He has rendered brave and useful service to the state and +the general public. It is not always an easy matter to determine the +relations that exist between the individual citizen and his fixed +duty to the public. In this case there is no doubt in our minds that +the step which Mr. Powers has taken commends itself to every man +who believes in law and its enforcement. There are times when the +individual must act for the people in ways that will mean sacrifice and +loss to him of the gravest character. Mr. Powers will be misunderstood +and misrepresented, but there is no question that his course will be +approved by every citizen who wishes to see the greatest corporation +as well as the weakest individual subject to the same law. Mr. Powers +has done all that a loyal, patriotic citizen could do. It now remains +for the Commission to act upon his evidence which, we understand, is +overwhelming proof of the lawlessness of the L. and T. Let the law be +enforced, no matter who the persons may be who have been guilty.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap09"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap09"></A> +<H3> Chapter Nine </H3> @@ -3904,10 +3933,13 @@ of Rollin Page! For a moment her voice faltered. Then she went on: O Lamb of God, I come, I come."<BR> </P> +<p>The voice was as the voice of divine longing, and the Rectangle for the +time being was swept into the harbor of redemptive grace.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap10"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap10"></A> +<H3> Chapter Ten </H3> @@ -4239,10 +4271,16 @@ What could resist such a baptism of power? How had they lived all these years without it? </P> +<p>They counseled together and there were many prayers. Henry Maxwell +dated from that meeting some of the serious events that afterward +became a part of the history of the First Church and of Raymond. When +finally they went home, all of them were impressed with the glory of +the Spirit's power.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap11"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap11"></A> +<H3> Chapter Eleven </H3> @@ -4611,10 +4649,15 @@ not see it, even if their motive in going down there was simply to pass away an afternoon. </P> +<p>"Very well, I'll go with you. You must obey my orders and let me take +you where you can see the most," she said, as she entered the carriage +and took the seat beside the girl who had first suggested the trip to +the Rectangle.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap12"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap12"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twelve </H3> @@ -4983,10 +5026,21 @@ brief scene in the hall she had clung to Virginia so hard that her arm was sore from the clutch of the girl's fingers. </P> +<p>Virginia did not know whether her grandmother would leave the house or +not. She had abundant means of her own, was perfectly well and vigorous +and capable of caring for herself. She had sisters and brothers living +in the South and was in the habit of spending several weeks in the year +with them. Virginia was not anxious about her welfare as far as that +went. But the interview had been a painful one. Going over it, as she +did in her room before she went down to tea, she found little cause for +regret. "What would Jesus do?" There was no question in her mind that +she had done the right thing. If she had made a mistake, it was one of +judgment, not of heart.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap13"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap13"></A> +<H3> Chapter Thirteen </H3> @@ -5262,10 +5316,24 @@ Powers spoke briefly of the fact that the Commission had promised to take action on his evidence at the earliest date possible. </P> +<p>He was engaged at his old work of telegraphy. It was a significant +fact that, since his action in resigning his position, neither his +wife nor daughter had appeared in public. No one but himself knew the +bitterness of that family estrangement and misunderstanding, of the +higher motive. Yet many of the disciples present in the meeting carried +similar burdens. These were things which they could not talk about. +Henry Maxwell, from his knowledge of his people, could almost certainly +know that obedience to their pledge had produced in the heart of +families separation of sympathy and even the introduction of enmity and +hatred. Truly, a man's foes are they of his own household when the rule +of Jesus is obeyed by some and disobeyed by others. Jesus is a great +divider of life. One must walk parallel with Him or directly across His +way.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap14"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap14"></A> +<H3> Chapter Fourteen </H3> @@ -5501,10 +5569,25 @@ from her face and then bent over and kissed her. Loreen smiled again, and the next minute her soul was in Paradise. </P> +<p>And yet this is only one woman out of thousands killed by this drink +evil. Crowd back, now, ye sinful men and women in this filthy street! +Let this august dead form be borne through your stupefied, sobered +ranks! She was one of your own children. The Rectangle had stamped +the image of the beast on her. Thank Him who died for sinners that +the other image of a new soul now shines out of her pale clay. Crowd +back! Give them room! Let her pass reverently, followed and surrounded +by the weeping, awestruck company of Christians. Ye killed her, ye +drunken murderers! And yet-—and yet-—O Christian America, who killed +this woman? Stand back! Silence, there! A woman has been killed. Who? +Loreen. Child of the streets. Poor, drunken, vile sinner. O Lord God, +how long, how long? Yes. The saloon killed her; that is, the Christians +of America, who license the saloon. And the Judgment Day only shall +declare who was the murderer of Loreen.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap15"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap15"></A> +<H3> Chapter Fifteen </H3> @@ -5778,10 +5861,19 @@ than a score of lost souls, mostly women, into the fold of the Good Shepherd. </P> +<p>It should be said here that Mr. Maxwell's statements concerning the +opening of the saloon from whose windows Loreen had been killed; +proved nearly exactly true. It was formally closed Monday and Tuesday +while the authorities made arrests of the proprietors charged with +the murder. But nothing could be proved against any one, and before +Saturday of that week the saloon was running as regularly as ever. No +one on the earth was ever punished by earthly courts for the murder of +Loreen.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap16"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap16"></A> +<H3> Chapter Sixteen </H3> @@ -6075,10 +6167,19 @@ the two were well fitted for each other, especially now that their purpose in life was moved by the same Christian force. </P> +<p>She said something of all this to Rollin, but he did not find much +comfort. When they closed the interview, Virginia carried away the +impression that Rollin meant to go his way with his chosen work, trying +to reach the fashionable men at the clubs, and while not avoiding +Rachel, seeking no occasions for meeting her. He was distrustful of his +power to control his feeling. And Virginia could see that he dreaded +even the thought of a second refusal in case he did let Rachel know +that his love was still the same.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap17"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap17"></A> +<H3> Chapter Seventeen </H3> @@ -6434,10 +6535,13 @@ deliberately chosen his course, urged on by his disappointment and loss. </P> +<p>"But Jesus said unto him, no man having put his hand to the plow, and +looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap18"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap18"></A> +<H3> Chapter Eighteen </H3> @@ -6728,10 +6832,19 @@ understand the value of what had been done, or the relation of their trial to the rest of the churches and cities of the country. </P> +<p>It happened that the week before that anniversary Sunday the Rev. +Calvin Bruce, D.D., of the Nazareth Avenue Church, Chicago, was +in Raymond, where he had come on a visit to some old friends, and +incidentally to see his old seminary classmate, Henry Maxwell. He +was present at the First Church and was an exceedingly attentive +and interested spectator. His account of the events in Raymond, and +especially of that Sunday, may throw more light on the entire situation +than any description or record from other sources.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap19"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap19"></A> +<H3> Chapter Nineteen </H3> @@ -6998,8 +7111,8 @@ practical joy." <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap20"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap20"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty </H3> @@ -7211,15 +7324,19 @@ closer walk with Jesus? When shall Christendom tread more closely the path he made? </P> -<P> -"It is the way the Master trod; Shall not the servant tread it -still?" +<P class="poem"> + "It is the way the Master trod; + Shall not the servant tread it still?" </P> +<p>With this question throbbing through his whole being, the Rev. Calvin +Bruce, D. D., went back to Chicago, and the great crisis in his +Christian life in the ministry suddenly broke irresistibly upon him.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap21"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap21"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-one </H3> @@ -7549,10 +7666,17 @@ If you are going up to see mother, tell her I'll run in after the play if she is still awake." </P> +<p>Felicia went up to see her mother and remained with her until the +Delano carriage came. Mrs. Sterling was worried about her husband. She +talked incessantly, and was irritated by every remark Felicia made. She +would not listen to Felicia's attempts to read even a part of Rachel's +letter, and when Felicia offered to stay with her for the evening, she +refused the offer with a good deal of positive sharpness.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap22"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap22"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-two </H3> @@ -7813,10 +7937,26 @@ soul's experience such as the Nazareth Avenue people had seldom heard, and never before from that pulpit. </P> +<p>In the hush that succeeded the prayer a distinct wave of spiritual +power moved over the congregation. The most careless persons in the +church felt it. Felicia, whose sensitive religious nature responded +swiftly to every touch of emotion, quivered under the passing of that +supernatural pressure, and when she lifted her head and looked up at +the minister there was a look in her eyes that announced her intense, +eager anticipation of the scene that was to follow. And she was not +alone in her attitude. There was something in the prayer and the result +of it that stirred many and many a disciple in that church. All over +the house men and women leaned forward, and when Dr. Bruce began to +speak of his visit to Raymond, in the opening sentence of his address +which this morning preceded his sermon, there was an answering response +in the people that came back to him as he spoke, and thrilled him with +the hope of a spiritual baptism such as he had never during all his +ministry experienced.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap23"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap23"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-three </H3> @@ -8186,10 +8326,13 @@ to this house of death, but also the whole way of human sin and sorrow, please God." </P> +<p>And even in that moment of horror at the unexpected news, Dr. Bruce +understood what the Bishop had promised to do.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap24"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap24"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-four </H3> @@ -8492,10 +8635,12 @@ I'm sure I would be able to make a living for Rose and myself and at the same time help others." </P> +<p>Felicia brooded over this dream until it became a reality. Meanwhile she grew into the affections of the Raymond people and the Rectangle folks, among whom she was known as the "angel cook." Underneath the structure of the beautiful character she was growing, always rested her promise made in Nazareth Avenue Church. "What would Jesus do?" She prayed and hoped and worked and regulated her life by the answer to that question. It was the inspiration of her conduct and the answer to all her ambition.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap25"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap25"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-five </H3> @@ -8749,10 +8894,17 @@ could they quarrel with the result if they were irresistibly compelled to do what they were planning to do? </P> +<p>The Bishop had money of his own. Every one in Chicago knew that he had +a handsome fortune. Dr. Bruce had acquired and saved by literary work +carried on in connection with his parish duties more than a comfortable +competence. This money, a large part of it, the two friends agreed +to put at once into the work, most of it into the furnishing of the +Settlement House.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap26"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap26"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-six </H3> @@ -8823,7 +8975,7 @@ breathed into the church the very breath of divine life, and are continuing that life-giving work at this present time. </P> -<HR ALIGN="center" WIDTH="60%"> +<HR style="width: 60%;"> <P> It was fall again, and the city faced another hard winter. The @@ -9102,10 +9254,17 @@ evidently been torn from the fence. pistol. </P> +<p>The place was solitary and the Bishop had no thought of resistance. He +did as he was commanded, and the man with the stake began to go through +his pockets. He was calm. His nerves did not quiver. As he stood there +with his hands uplifted, an ignorant spectator might have thought that +he was praying for the souls of these two men. And he was. And his +prayer was singularly answered that very night.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap27"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap27"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-seven </H3> @@ -9425,10 +9584,19 @@ divine glory. benediction he went away. </P> +<p>In the morning he almost dreaded to face the men. But the impression +of the night had not worn away. True to his promise he secured work +for them. The janitor at the Settlement needed an assistant, owing to +the growth of the work there. So Burns was given the place. The Bishop +succeeded in getting his companion a position as driver for a firm +of warehouse dray manufacturers not far from the Settlement. And the +Holy Spirit, struggling in these two darkened sinful men, began His +marvelous work of regeneration.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap28"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap28"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-eight </H3> @@ -9791,10 +9959,16 @@ shunned the terrors of the social problem as they would shun a contagious disease. </P> +<p>This fact was impressed upon the Settlement workers in a startling way +one morning. Perhaps no incident of that winter shows more plainly how +much of a momentum had already grown out of the movement of Nazareth +Avenue Church and the action of Dr. Bruce and the Bishop that followed +the pledge to do as Jesus would do.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap29"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap29"></A> +<H3> Chapter Twenty-nine </H3> @@ -10184,10 +10358,30 @@ him in the piteous appeal of the shabby young man who had appeared in the First Church of Raymond at the morning service. </P> +<p>Was his great desire for fellowship going to be granted? Would the +movement begun in Raymond actually spread over the country? He had +come to Chicago with his friends partly to see if the answer to that +question would be found in the heart of the great city life. In a few +minutes he would face the people. He had grown very strong and calm +since he first spoke with trembling to that company of workingmen +in the railroad shops, but now as then he breathed a deeper prayer +for help. Then he went in, and with the rest of the disciples he +experienced one of the great and important events of the earthly life. +Somehow he felt as if this meeting would indicate something of an +answer to his constant query: "What would Jesus do?" And to-night as he +looked into the faces of men and women who had for years been strangers +and enemies to the Church, his heart cried out: "O, my Master, teach +the Church, Thy Church, how to follow Thy steps better!" Is that prayer +of Henry Maxwell's to be answered? Will the Church in the city respond +to the call to follow Him? Will it choose to walk in His steps of pain +and suffering? And still, over all the city broods the Spirit. Grieve +Him not, O city! For He was never more ready to revolutionize this +world than now!</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap30"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap30"></A> +<H3> Chapter Thirty </H3> @@ -10593,10 +10787,26 @@ rule refuse to walk in Jesus' steps so closely as to suffer—actually suffer—for His sake? </P> +<p>Henry Maxwell kept asking this question even after Rachel had finished +singing and the meeting had come to an end after a social gathering +which was very informal. He asked it while the little company of +residents with the Raymond visitors were having a devotional service, +as the custom in the Settlement was. He asked it during a conference +with the Bishop and Dr. Bruce which lasted until one o'clock. He asked +it as he knelt again before sleeping and poured out his soul in a +petition for spiritual baptism on the church in America such as it had +never known. He asked it the first thing in the morning and all through +the day as he went over the Settlement district and saw the life of +the people so far removed from the Life abundant. "Would the church +members, would the Christians, not only in the churches of Chicago, but +throughout the country, refuse to walk in His steps if, in order to do +so, they must actually take up a cross and follow Him? This was the one +question that continually demanded answer.</p> + <BR><BR><BR> -<A NAME="chap31"></A> -<H3 ALIGN="center"> +<a id="chap31"></A> +<H3> Chapter Thirty-one </H3> @@ -11041,386 +11251,6 @@ THE END <BR><BR><BR><BR> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of In His Steps, by Charles M. 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