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ffmH Helping Cc'itmjj ■M ards learned came from a hole Meli my/cigar ha<| burned in my »t sleeve,, I immediately strdck up conversation with the porter. ;i ‘^Didn't know there was stuSh good legraph service here in the moun- * am^,I ventured;to say.■: . / *0, yea, we usually pick up three \©i' tour messages %hea we come through here, responded the porter deliberately, as he eyed the injured 'coat sleeve, *"*Hope you’ve 'deceived no bad news,” I continued, as the portdr drew the telegram from his pdcket and hurried away in response, to a bell, without answering me. /Too bad you \burned your coat,” said the porter^ upon his return; “be cause you can’t match that piece of «o6ds any more.*/ “ , . .‘ICan’t match it! Sure I can, just ag fcon as I get !|ack East,’t ;i Said to ^ftuprise, as the bell rang and the \ When h*. returned, hewas .visibly effected, and as he sat down to rest, « spirit Of sadhesd seemed to over come him. Presently, he straightened up end said: “Wei},' thd old min to donia for, sure, thig time; and it means the road for me for life, I •“put you’ve always been on the Toad, haven’t you?” I asked in sur ever knew. I met him on thievery run eight year§ ago, and When he found out I was a tailor he gave me the chance which so many had re fused me. He’s a large manufacturer of men’s clothing. He took mo'off the road and put me or. t!xc. bench as an expert worker on hand-made-cioth Late last fall wA were burned vJjfei.SQ-’C.'. * T_. -w.. kn nlr An tko VAO A WWW1 and ifeMCd tf-j$ j^j son, on board mimber fort^wo. iWjw intended txnr **$. , Jackson on boa&tti number twedty-&ur, and^refdb to wrecking hein^j \ completion ^odajf7 W f “Gee,” exclaimed porter, as-hej rushed f XoHrard • to number £|iro-. ♦^Looka like we’re safe after aH^-and,’’ her added*, “maybe you cab get your dost matched when yoty dome, bae^ LITERATURE/' •...,.i KW capabilities, th«&r humility rata* f;^¥S®Rlip^;lSp!!V* >5: A'i' „ humorous possibilities, but not with [ oiut enlisting sympathy on JUS ,«&*«.1 Mark Twain gays that bewas reared: I to believe slavery a fitvtae tatitu tion. Howeyer, in thii story oneCof [ the strongest scenes is that in whfcti * linoh tries^to decide whether . to write to pirn’s okueiv apprising her of his Whereabouts. - Being- *, soft' M , wjr South, Hack kn«w that helping a slave to escape wajj an offense un [ Fardonabte On earth or in the beybnd. So he wrote the letter to save his soul; but to save his own self-respect he decided not to send Again - in this scene probably 4he strongest ar gument presented to Hucts mind is Jim’s pathetic plaint, -Mas-a Huck, ) youse de on’y white man 4at has • treated me fyar.” Jim is also a, su perstitious, faithful, ikindhearted vie* fim. of circumstances. Low^ is oppose^ to slavery but sat irises those ,M taTor of it and thedr arguments, Instead of condemning the institution. A few instances will suffice to show his peculiar treat m«nt: . y t “Liberty’s a kind of thing, Thet don’t agree with Nefcgers.” 1 “Slavery’* a thing /that depends on completion, ; 'L *’ |j? ‘ ly'^k « It’s God’s law thet feiters on black skins don’t chafe.” - In the more serious poetry, of course, there is not the same chance for development of character as in prose, but by the,treatment of inci dents and individuals one can. very readily arrive at a comprehension of the different views oa the sub ject. Cowper, Longfellow, and Whit tier' were writers more or less on siave topics. Cowp&r’s contribution was small but one of h|s poet^s is ofteh. qhoted, especially thb linbs,— “Fleecy locks and blac Cannot forfeit naturefs claim; Skins may differ, but, affection Dwells in white and black the \ they had € « calmly^; l the! ,tyrattl he letter ga may be close seconds. Thus the writers no tor examined have em phhslzed oppression and its effect* upon its victims, and some haT« add^ iy by south'* as the word have .^ott^but'.fcn the whole, verydifl efrn writers, and as ante-bellum Negro jjJPpea^ Fitiuft in Manhood Mark 2:12. iM* “They drere all .amazed and glori fied God, saying. We never saw it on this fashion. '*. What made them talk in' thl| way? What/Had happened? A paralyzed man ha<ff«tahd his freed#!. Ho was. carrying his bed, the bed on which he had been carried t6 the LordvHe who wa^^bnrdensom^has become the bhrdesi-behrer. There he va». erect,; strong and contagiously glad, striding down the street! How can you get over that? 'Who could miss the force of that happening? It atareh upon tl^e crowd like n pla card' .in'; the: street. A miracle of that kind is more thdn a word, it is a word made fie# Anybody can see il- lt is walk ing about, and every step is a word in the convincing witness. And the ero.wds are .amazed, a® Well/ they might be, and they glorified God. if the*, wonder had ended '& wonder, jffl might have ended with the day. And how 4b a transient,, wonder to be fixed except in praise? Praise is the eoul’g fixing solution, and It gives permanency to ephehmeral impres ' sioi)§||Tbesse’ ,p90ple|^w#e::;;':anto|edJi ifll Well, now, in some way or other yre have to arest the world’s atten tion today. How can . we stir the world, to wonder and pratae?: We ■■■■IP | arouse their atten tion. Men's minds must be compell ed to turn their e^es, and lepk, aud think • They must see something ex traordinary*. ’ to ■^hd f Commonplace street, t-lves which were broken and defiled by; passion, must walk along the streets sweet and whole again. Broken Wills must he restored; men must be pees who v?ere like bending reeds; who are ndw lik&iron pfltore. Broken hearts must witness to the wonderful hoaling power el the Sav iour’s love and grace. The world must be compelled to a#, ‘‘How did it happen? The man has been broken for yeara, #d look at him now!” That is the kind of spectacle which startles and wins, the sensational lamiMjM men.;,and^^wn4::^1W>; were once paralyzed marching along <£osttee«. a, to the beat ot tote*. We must pray tor the muMplica, zzrzzvzx, His eighty grace, multiply mli»». out eptottea wkidi.1 tody, epiitles which wayfaring' men, , :th#gh;;ii&m$m' to ? 'rtand. They are the real sensation Itp3hri#a we need ' ■H % And all the pepole went their ay Vo .eat, and to drink, and to send jrtions, and to make great mirth, icause they had understood the .. ■ T?e£'' ■ 'JV’l'-] '.Jilj' « . iW -r • « • > Si Return unto unto you, said 2. Memory ferae: I m thy word. Pea. 11 3. Time: B. C. .506. ■****** lathers had so fi l^for fhd.:la*,_!A ':;/ 8 The Lesson ExoOritioii to bring the boot of the ► Moses. .The pe|^»|p| ti) needni th^ iew, and made « tci li the souls , of the peo] thin ownneed* &&& #:1. T
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