"As he reached the corner, he stopped and looked back."
"As he reached the corner, he stopped and looked back."
An hour later Mr. Alfred Harris came out of the hall. He shook hands with Mr. Douglass and the other residents, and started down the street. It was his last day in Merton.
As he reached the corner, he stopped and looked back. The children came out of the hall, and were standing about the minister and his wife. Inez Carlton and her mother were standing on the steps just above the group. The whole scene impressed the newspaper man profoundly.
An elderly man touched his arm.
"It's been worth while, don't you think?"
"O, it's you, Mr. Brooks. 'Worth while!' I should say so. Why cannot the same thing be done in every city where the need is as great?"
"It can, if—" the lawyer paused thoughtfully.
"If—" said Mr. Alfred Harris, looking gravely at the lawyer.
"If the world will give itself to redeem itself."
He went on toward the settlement, and the other man went his way with his head bent in reverie. Somehow he seemed to hear the words borne to him from the settlement, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us."
Ah, yes! Shall the world ever be redeemed in any other way?
"And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, 'God with us.'"