n you could all day Sunday hacking at the same old job
you've had all the week. I'll look for you next Sunday night.
So-long!" And with a courteous wave he was off with a lacrosse stick,
gliding down the campus like a wild thing. The professor stood and
watched him a moment, and then turned thoughtfully up the asphalt
path, pondering.
"They are a power in the college and in the community, that sister and
brother," he said. "I wonder why."
Down at the church they wondered also as they came in crowds to the
live Christian Endeavor meetings, and listened to the clear, ringing
words of the young man who had been president before him; as they
praises sounded by his admiring friends, especially the young man who
had been president before him; as they saw the earnest spirit that
went out to save, and had no social distinctions or classes to hinder
the fraternal interest. The pastor wondered most of all, and thanked
God, and told his wife that that Endeavor Society was making his
church all over. He didn't know but it had converted him again, too.
The session wondered as it listened to the earnest, simple gospel
sermons that the pastor now preached, and saw his zeal for bringing
men to the service of Christ.
Oh, they pointed out the four young people, the Clouds, Jane Bristol,
and Howard Letchworth, as the moving spirits in the work; and they
admitted, some of them, that prayer had made the transformation, for
there were not many of the original bunch of young people who by this
time had not been fully trained to understand that if you wanted
anything in the spiritual world you must take time and give energy to
getting acquainted with God. But, if they could have gone with some
spirit guide to find out the true secret of all the wonderful
spiritual growth and power of that young people's society, they must
have looked in about Julia Cloud's fireplace on Sabbath afternoon, and
seen the four earnest young people with their Bibles, and Julia Cloud
in the midst, spending the long, beautiful hours in actual spiritual
study of God's word, and then kneeling and communing with God for a
little while, all of them on intimate terms with God. They were
actually learning to delight themselves in the Lord. It was no wonder
that other people, even outside the church and the Christian Endeavor
Society, were beginning to notice the difference in the four, just as
they noticed the shining of Moses's face when he came down from the
mounta
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