"
"And it's to be free to every loafer who wants to come in and use the
place?"
"Yes, just as free as Christ's invitation to come and be saved."
"But you'll fill the church with a lot of trash who don't know anything
about the Bible, or the plan of salvation. How can you, when the
Scriptures say, have no fellowship with such?"
"We'll save a few young men who are startin' fer Hell by way of the
saloons and bawdy houses."
"No you won't. The Gospel and the Gospel alone, is the power of God
unto salvation. God never ordained that men should be saved by reading
rooms and such."
"I believe I know just the man we want," said Uncle Bobbie, turning
to the young people, when the deacon had at last subsided into an
attitude of sullen protest.
"Who?" asked one of the young ladies, with the hint of a laugh in her
eyes, as she looked at their stand-by.
"That printer of Udell's. He's a clean, strong young feller, and
I believe would be glad of some sech place to spend his evenin's.
Of course he aint a Christian, but--"
"Not a Christian," cried Wickham, starting to his feet again; "not a
Christian? And you propose to let an alien take charge of the Lord's
work? I wash my hands of the whole matter."
"Are you sure he will be all right?" asked the other girl on the
committee.
"Sure," replied Wicks, "if he will take it, and I think we can get
Charlie here to see to that."
Charlie nodded. "It will be a splendid thing for him," he said; and
then he told them how Dick spent his evenings alone in the office,
rather than go to the only places open to him.
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