"Local self-government is today hanging in what Edmund Burke called 'a dancing and a hesitating balance.'

As 'New occasions teach new duties,' this new peril demands a new patriotism-not new in spirit, but in manifestation; one which is civil rather than military; one which devotes itself to the principle actually endangered; not a patriotism which constructs fortifications and builds navies, but one which purifies politics and substitutes statesmen for demagogues; not one which 'rallies round the flag,' so much as one which rallies round the ballotbox; not one which charges into the deadly breach, but one which smashes 'the machine;' not one which offers itself to die for the country, but one that is willing to live for it, which is as much heroic as it is more difficult." -"The Twentieth Century City" (Josiah Strong, D. D.).

CHAPTER XXII.

AN AROUSED CITY.

The morning paper told the story of the fire and the shooting of the missionary, and gave the threats of the vicious. Mr. and Mrs. Warren read the account while at breakfast and hastened down to the mission.

"I wonder," said Mr. Warren, as they were driving along, "if the vicious are as dangerous as this indicates? I have thought of them as shut off from the rest of us and as simply destroying themselves."

"I have frequently wondered why men of executive force and wide influence leave the work of good citizenship to men of less business experience and influence. It seems to me that it forebodes evil for our cities."

"There are various reasons," replied Mr. Warren. "Many of us do not realize the danger; others are too busy; some, I fear, are afraid of the commercial loss that would come if one oppose vice."

"But what will become of our cities in a generation or two, if men like you neglect

their responsibilities?" She asked the question earnestly.

"You are right, my dear, as you usually are on such matters. I have dimly felt for some time that real love included these difficult and, for many reasons, disagreeable duties of citizenship. I cannot refuse the summons which the attack upon Mr. Harrison makes upon every good citizen."

They soon reached the house of John Miller and learned all that was known of the sad matter. They urged Mrs. Miller and the physician to spare nothing that would minister to the comfort and health of the two suffering men.

Mr. Warren instructed his coachman to drive him slowly through the streets in that vicinity. In their works of ministry they had often been through these decaying parts of the city, but their thoughts were then upon ministering to the needy and not upon destroying the causes of poverty and woe.

"I shall have this murderous attempt thoroughly probed and the facts of lawlessness and vice carefully gathered," said Mr. Warren as they drove away home.

Mr. Warren told me, years afterward, the

course he took in the following weeks. Trusted agents of his gathered the shocking facts of vice, of defiant lawlessness and of the influence of organized evil in the government of the city. He left no stone unturned to learn the truth. When this was done, he invited fifty of the most influential citizens to meet him at his home. He laid the facts before them and showed their bearing upon the commercial and moral interests of the city. He permitted me to copy a part of the report which his secretary made of the discussion that followed.

Mr. Warren: "There, gentlemen, are the facts which I have gathered and this their bearing upon the interests of the city. I will only add my conviction that, if men of our position and influence withhold their time and thought from these problems, in a generation the cities will be the plague spots of our nation and the greatest menace to our civilization."

Mr. Field: "These revelations are certainly startling and I appreciate the spirit in which Mr. Warren has brought them to us. But when I ask what I can do about it, I face a difficulty. I have too many irons

in the fire now. I can't possibly give time and strength to anything else."

Mr. Baldwin: "We can all feel the force of what Mr. Field says, for we are all busy men. But I have been asking myself the question as I have listened to these facts and their discussion, 'Ought not a citizen to give some time even to the neglect of his private business, for the general good?' I stand ready to do what I can."

Mr. Alvord: "I am heartily sick of the outlook of this city. I'm ready to fight for decency."

Mr. Langdon: "One side of this matter must not be overlooked. To many of us a public connection with such a movement would mean financial loss. I do not feel called upon to make such a sacrifice. I am willing to give money to such an undertaking, but my name must not be connected with it."

Mr. Dow: "That is the way I feel."

Mr. James: "You may count me in as a silent partner, too.'

Mr. Huntington: "I haven't any money to throw away, but a new meaning of citizenship has come to me tonight and I will do