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In His Steps

CHAPTER Nineteen
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He quoted to me in the course of our conversation several times the verses in Peter: 'For even hereunto were ye called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye would follow His steps'; and he seems filled with the conviction that what our churches need today more than anything else is this factor of joyful suffering for Jesus in some form.

I do not know as I agree with him, altogether; but, my dear Caxton, it is certainly astonishing to note the results of this idea as they have impressed themselves upon this city and this church.
"You ask how about the results on the individuals who have made this pledge and honestly tried to be true to it.

Those results are, as I have said, a part of individual history and cannot be told in detail.

Some of them I can give you so that you may see that this form of discipleship is not merely sentiment or fine posing for effect.
"For instance, take the case of Mr.Powers, who was superintendent of the machine shops of the L.and T.R.R.

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