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THE DRUM LAKE EASTER SERV CE. 
A story of the Michigan Pine Woods. 
BY HERBERT W. COLLINGWOOD. 
Copyrighted by the Rural New-Yorker. 
(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.) 
It was in the days of Drum Lake’s greatest 
prosperity that “St. Paul’s Church” had been 
erected. Some pious lumberman’s wife, years 
before, had built and furnished the little 
building, and some zealous churchman, miles 
away, had left a small sum of money for the 
support of the “Rector” 
There was nothing princely about the salary 
thus secured, just enough for a man to 
starve upon with a fair degree of comfort. 
Several enthusiastic shepherds had tried the 
experiment with marked success, long before 
the Rev. Mr. Grayling had ever heard of the 
place. 
But when the tide of Drum Lake’s greatness 
began to go out, the church society dwindled 
away to nothing. For years, the little church 
stood bravely up against the storms, but 
slowly and surely it was forced to give up the 
struggle. The snow came drifting in through 
the broken windows; the wind shouted aud 
sang through the fallen door, and at last the 
roof, worn out and discouraged, gave up the 
struggle and fell in upon the room it had 
guarded so long. Then the storm held such a 
riotous festival in the interior that when 
the Rev. H A. S. Grayling appeared as the 
Hercules who should build up the church and 
society, he found one great drift of snow 
coveriug the whole place. 
About the time the roof gave up the hope¬ 
less struggle a wise “committee” miles away 
from the scene of action, had discovered that 
quite a little sum of money belonged to the 
Drum Lake Society, The warden and vestry¬ 
men of “St. Paul’s Church” failed to respond 
to the various notes sent them, and the com¬ 
mittee wisely decided that the society would 
have tO*be built up. They resolved to send 
some one to perform this operation. Could 
the brave roof have known of this decision, 
perhaps it would have braced itself for an¬ 
other fight with tne storm. But while the 
“committee” were corresponding with im¬ 
aginary vestrymen, the only protector of “St. 
Paul’s Church” lost heart and fell. 
I cannot tell how it chanced that the Rev. 
H. A. S. Grayling was selected Dy the com¬ 
mittee. It certainly could not have been his 
looks, eloquence or cheerfulness that won him 
the position, and he had already nearly killed 
two societies with which he had been con¬ 
nected. It needs a better brain than mine to 
understand how one who had nearly brought 
dissolution into a live society could be reason¬ 
ably expected to put life into a dead one. 
There are some very plain-spoken persons 
who claim that the committee sent Mr. Gray¬ 
ling to Drum Lake because they were anxious 
to get rid of him. But, after all, it is a mat¬ 
ter of small importance at the best. 
He came, and our story has him and his 
Easter sermon to deal with. Let us do our 
best with what we have. 
Only ten days before our story opens, the 
“fool” had called to bid the chairman 
of the committee good-bye. “Well, Gray¬ 
ling,” that gentleman had remarked—holding 
out two fat fingers for the little minister to 
shake—“ I wish you success in your work. 
Your first sermon will be preached at Easter. 
Yery pleasant for you, I think. We hope to 
hear a good account of you, Grayling. Bet¬ 
ter preach them a doctrinal sermon at first. 
They will appreciate it, I have no doubt ” 
And the poor little “fool” had been think¬ 
ing out that Easter sermon all through that 
long, cold journey from the East, and here he 
was at last ready to deliver it. 
He had been in Drum Lake just three days, 
and h&d he been like other men, and possessed 
of the least ambition, no earthly power could 
have induced him to remain longer. 
But the Rev. H. A. S. Grayling was not 
ambitious. Sorrow and suffering had gnawed 
all the ambition out of his heart long before 
and left him a mere machine. At least so it 
seemed, though there were times when the old 
feelings came to him stronger than ever. 
Had he been sent to the north pole, to “ build 
up a church,” he would have gone and labored 
patiently at his work, till he dropped dead, 
glad to die, perhaps. 
He liked hard work—he enjoyed it—so at 
least, he remarked to Mrs. McKelvey, the 
day after his arrival. It was well for him, 
perhaps, that this was so; for he who would 
seek to build up “St. Paul’s Church of Drum 
Lake,” would have remarkably few play days 
thrown into his time. So at least Jack Gray 
stated as his opinion,and the “fool” took about 
the same view of it when he saw the ruins of 
the church. This Jack Gray was the terror 
of the Rev. Henry’s life. The great, rough 
lumberman had taken a dislike to the little 
man from the first. He looked at him with 
undisguised contempt from his seat at Mrs. 
McKelvey’s table, and lost no opportunities 
for “giving him away”—“Saint Paul ain’t gut 
much of a church up here, hez he? Kinder 
gone back on his buildin”—he would remark 
with a wink at the rest. “My idees is, that 
he’d hev ter put on his overcoat and boots ter 
preach a sarmon up in them drifts. What’s 
your idees, parson?” 
Then to the infinite amusement of Jack, the 
“fool” would stammeringly explain that 
owing to the inclemency of the weather, it 
might perhaps be necessary for one to be 
well prepared with outer clothing, in order to 
remain for any length of time in the church 
in its present condition. He had, however, 
secured another audience room, where he 
would be extremely glad ,to meet his friends 
and brothers. 
But the “fool” had one strong friend in 
Drum Lake in the person of Mrs. McKelvey. 
She was an English woman, brought up to look 
with a certain reverence upon the rector. 
When the little minister came into. Drum 
Lake, this worthy woman at once took him 
in charge. She announced herself to the 
world as his friend and defender, and the 
“fool” meekly accepted the situation and re¬ 
tired from the front. 
Perhaps she saw that the rector could never 
act in his own defence; or it may have been 
because the great majority of the citizens of 
Drum Lake decided at once that the Rev. 
Grayling, etc., was a fool of the first water. 
But whatever reason induced her to take his 
part, she defended him so well that even Jack 
Gray kept silent when she was on the watch. 
Mrs. McKelvey’s boarding establishment was 
a great barn of a house situated on what was 
once the principal street of Drum Lake. In 
the days when Drum Lake had a future, this 
building had been famed far and wide as the 
“Continental Hotel.” In fact, even now a 
close student could have discovered portions 
of the letters composing this appropria'e title, 
in white paint on the outside of the weather¬ 
beaten building. 
The old house had seen lively times in Its. 
day; but now that its night had come, it had 
only the memory of these pleasanter hours to 
make life endurable. The very room in 
which the “fool” proposed to preach his Eas¬ 
ter sermon had been known in the long ago as 
the “Continental Dance Hall” “The youth 
and beauty of Drum Lake and vicinity” had 
often met within its walls,and danced dull care 
completely off the premises to the music of 
the “Continental Orchestra.” Mrs. Me 
Kelvey had not deemed it necessary to inform 
the little minister of this fact when she point¬ 
ed out the acoustic advantages of the room. 
It was just as well, perhaps. 
Mrs. Me Kelvey occupied only a few rooms 
on the lower floor. The rest of the great 
building stood barren and deserted. The 
frost sent ghostly footsteps creaking along the 
deserted room, while grim and watchful 
shadows gathered in the long passage-ways, 
and brooded over their trouble. The family 
supply of old hats had long since given out, 
and through the many broken windows the 
snow came stealing with every storm, form¬ 
ing great drifts along the floors. 
These lay quietly enough through the win¬ 
ter months, but at the first warm breath of 
spring, came melting down through the floors 
upon the boarders below. 
The family of Mrs. McKelvey consisted of 
the baby and Mr. McKelvey. I name the 
members in the order of their importance. 
(TO BE CONTINUED.) 
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