told you that no
man EVER sacrifices himself; that there is no instance of it upon record
anywhere; and that when a man's Interior Monarch requires a thing of its
slave for either its MOMENTARY or its PERMANENT contentment, that thing
must and will be furnished and that command obeyed, no matter who may
stand in the way and suffer disaster by it? That man RUINED HIS FAMILY
to please and content his Interior Monarch--

Y.M. And help Christ's cause.

O.M. Yes--SECONDLY. Not firstly. HE thought it was firstly.

Y.M. Very well, have it so, if you will. But it could be that he argued
that if he saved a hundred souls in New York--

O.M. The sacrifice of the FAMILY would be justified by that great profit
upon the--the--what shall we call it?

Y.M. Investment?

O.M. Hardly. How would SPECULATION do? How would GAMBLE do? Not
a solitary soul-capture was sure. He played for a possible
thirty-three-hundred-per-cent profit. It was GAMBLING--with his family
for "chips." However let us see how the game came out. Maybe we can
get on the track of the secret original impulse, the REAL impulse, that
moved him to so nobly self-sacrifice his family in the Savior's cause
under the superstition that he was sacrificing himself. I will read a
chapter or so.... Here we have it! It was bound to expose itself sooner
or later. He preached to the East-Side rabble a season, then went back
to his old dull, obscure life in the lumber-camps "HURT TO THE HEART,
HIS PRIDE HUMBLED." Why? Were not his efforts acceptable to the Savior,
for Whom alone they were made? Dear me, that detail is LOST SIGHT OF,
is not even referred to, the fact that it started out as a motive
is entirely forgotten! Then what is the trouble? The authoress quite
innocently and unconsciously gives the whole business away. The
trouble was this: this man merely PREACHED to the poor; that is not the
University Settlement's way; it deals in larger and better things than
that, and it did not enthuse over that crude Salvation-Army eloquence.
It was courteous to Holme--but cool. It did not pet him, did not take
him to its bosom. "PERISHED WERE ALL HIS DREAMS OF DISTINCTION, THE
PRAISE AND GRATEFUL APPROVAL--" Of whom? The Savior? No; the Savior is
not mentioned. Of whom, then? Of "His FELLOW-WORKERS." Why did he want
that? Because the Master inside of him wanted it, and would not be
content without it. That emphasized sentence quoted above, reveals the
secret we have been seeking, the