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Half whimsically, Randall turned to him and said, “Goest thou? I go with thee.” Silently and feelingly they clasped hands as if to seal the compact. The missionary’s heart was made glad when they had opportunity to tell him of their decision, and 'he told them they would be welcome indeed. When William was graduated from the Seminary, he took a year’s post-graduate work, because of his desire to be well trained. It was thought best for him to take the place of an assistant pastor for at least a year or two, that he might have experience in real work before going as a mis sionary to the foreign field. Accordingly, he went to a city in western New York and threw himself whole-heartedly into his work. He held Gospel meetings in mission halls and on street corners, and was a winning personal worker. Many souls were brought from darkness into light through the instrumentality of the young missionary volunteer. Always he held up Jesus Christ and His shed blood as the only ground for Salvation. It brought results as no other preaching will. William was popular and loved by the young people in the church, and the intensity of his devo tion led many others along the same path. William Harmon had, in a way, been peculiarly free and unattached in his relations to the opposite sex. Always his work, recreation, and play had been among men and boys. It was really due to the life he led, his close companion ship with'his uncle, and the lack of feminine members of his own family. He felt that he did not know or understand femininity, and showed a reserve there, that was not shown in anything else. All of this.was changed one evening for William, when at a social affair at the church he met a young woman who strangely attracted him. He sought out an introduction to her, and spent a good part of the evening with or .near her. He sought permission to call to see her and obtained it. He discovered that the young lady did not live in the city permanently, but was staying there several months with relatives while awaiting her parents’ return from abroad. It was through her aunt, her mother’s sister, that she came to the church occasionally, and more than one of the older people regretted in the days following that the two young people had ever met. Miss Louise Birdsey was a social butterfly, and, as her aunt said, had not a single serious thought in her head until she took a fancy to the young stu dent pastor. She began to go to church quite regularly, for although William Harmon called as often as was con sistent with his duties, Miss Birdsey found that to be with him she must go where he went, and she did so, although it was a source of much amusement to her friends. It was true William Harmon was troubled because she talked of things in which he was not interested in the least, things that had in fact never touched his life. She loved dancing, card-playing, theatre-going, and fine clothes. She dressed in extreme styles, she was rich and petted and spoiled. Two greater extremes one could scarcely find, and yet they were irresistibly drawn to each other and main tained a degree of friendliness that seemed to the friends of the young man detrimental. When Jack Harmon came on for a visit of a few weeks, he was deeply troubled, and more so than ever when, a few weeks after his return, William wrote him that he and Louise were tentatively engaged until the arrival of her parents from abroad. To William and Louise the difference in their outlook upon life was quite apparent, but each- was seeking to change the viewpoint of the other. Louise poked fun at William and his seriousness, told him he was an old fogy,
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