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himself in such a palpable way. He knew that there is but one standard of true living, the continual devotion of every power of soul and body to the per performance of duty; and knowing that his life had not been conformed to this standard, he could no longer regard or respect himself as a true man.
Steadily the little vessel drifted on before the flood. The water plunged over the dam and beat against the buttunes of the mills with a ceaseless blow that, as he floated nearer, fell on his cars with a heavy dullness. Once, his boat turned sidewise, and the strong wind heaved up the waves against it until their spray was carried over its side, fell upon his face, and wet it almost like heavy rain. But he did not wipe it off, or seem to no tice it. Again, the skiff drove up against a floating log, and hung there, tilted almost to the water's surface. Helwick's body accommodated itself to the new position, and he knew not either that it did so, or that, when the log and boat separate1, he resumed that in which he had been lying. As a baby fixes its gaze upon something strange and pleasing, and sees nothing else, so Helwick, thinking of the past, the present, and the future, was unconscious of everything but his mental state.
Surely as the current of the river was bearing him on onward, toward the fierce surge of the water over the dam, the current of his thoughts was resistlessly sweeping him onward to a crisis. He felt that on the ultimate decision of that night depended his whole future. From henceforth, he was to be Helwick the true or Helwick the make-believe; and his soul rose up demanding that he choose the true and turn his back forever on the indifferent and false.
The old selfishness, however, that he had recognized as his greatest weakness, as the underlying cause of his failure thus far, asserted itself, and began a fierce and uncertain contest with the good that was stirring in his breast. He had seen, by the flash of his reawakened conscience, and as he had never seen before, the greatness and grandeur of earnest living; the matchless glory that is attained by self conquest; the perfection of beauty and the fullness of success that belong to the soul which loses and finds its life in the service of its God. But his old habit of putting before every other consideration his bodily comfort and mental case held him back from entering upon the course that lay open again to his feet. With a glimpse of the radiant perfection of Christ lighting up the end of that way before him, he hesitated, influenced by aversion to the petty hardships he would meet in travelling it!
Day after day, of weary reading and writing; instead of careless ease; night after night given up to study, instead of to the enjoyment of merry society and frivolous pastimes; personal tastes denied, that he might have meat to give his brother or that by his meat he might not make his brother to offend; thoughts for the troubles and sufferings of others, in place of comfortable indifference to them—all these were presented to his mind, and influenced it. But one thing influenced him more than all others. It was the realization that, should he begin to live as he had meant to live, he must return to his old home. That his aged father and mother were longing daily, hourly for the homecoming of their boy, and that they needed him (more for his companionship than for anything else), he knew full well; and he knew, too, that there, as well as anywhere else, he could pursue the work of his profession. But he did not want to go back; he felt an impulse to stay away, and found that the need of this little putting-down of his inclinations was more powerful against the good he longed for, than were all the greater sacrifices he saw before him; perhaps, because it was nearest. So he hesitated, and struggled. God was calling him to the service of truth—but the service of self is so easy!—and to make up the mind to change is so hard!
In the turmoil of the river, the trailing oars were rippling calmly, but in the turmoil of Helwick's brain was nothing calm. He raised himself and grasped the gunwales fiercely—stood up,—toutered to the oars—took his place between them, and rested his head upon his hands. He was trembling as if with cold, while drops of sweat welled out upon his forehead and mixed with the spray that lay there. Suddenly, far down the valley, a locomotive whistled. It was that of the train which, in twelve short hours, would stop almost in sight of his father's house. He looked up quickly, took the oars and began to pull. As he did so he became conscious for the first time, of the deafening reverberations of the torrent's fall. "Great heavens! The dam so near?" he cried, and bent himself to the strokes.
The watchman on the bridge, keeping lookout lest the high waters should rise higher and the great iron structure be en dangered, looked up the river where the light from the lamps of the railway station on the western side made a wide path across the dark waters. Something floated through it and caught his eye. It did not look like a log,- but would a best be out so late, and so near, the race? He moved toward the place under which it would probably pass. Caught already in the swift rush of the flood over the curtain, it comes shooting on, and flashes beneath the bridge, yet not so quickly that the watchman does not see and recognize John Helwick's little skiff, half full of water, and with an overcoat dragging from the bow. A moment later, it leaps into the air over the curtain, plunges into the whirling, furious water below, and is lost to sight.
As to Neglected Games.
EDITOR JOURNAL:
During my years in the State University there has been a lack of interest shown in such out door sports as are not really dangerous to the persons taking part in them; that is, such sports as tennis, boating, running, jumping, and even gymnasium practice. These sports, while they may not be so popular among the mass of students as foot ball or base ball, have their advantages. Why is it that a few dollars cannot be spent, and spent profitably, in the clearing off and laying out of tennis courts on the McCook field, where they would cost comparatively little and benefit so many more students than base ball and foot ball grounds? Does it add more to the honor of the institution to have, say fifty students, exhibit their muscular powers, than it would to benefit the whole student body by some minor im provvement?
The boating interests might be looked after to the extent of adding some new racing boats to the property of tha Athletic Association. The Indian clubs that hang along the wall in an obscure upper room in the dome might be placed in some more roomy place so as to give more a chance to use them. But some will say these things do not bring any money into the Association. This is all very true, yet if tennis courts were placed on the field, might not enough be collected from those who use them, and a small fee charged for their use in match games played there, to pay for their keeping? And should not some chances be given to the women as well as to the men of such a school as ours, especially when we have the champion woman tennis player of the west enrolled as a student?
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