city and the community at large growing out of the strike expressed in figures which had been carefully and closed with the emphatic declaration that the working people did not know what they wanted one other thing he made plain that in a strike the working people suffered most which was a proposition that few persons in the hall were prepared to deny then came the rev dr ca who was the chief speaker for the occasion hb manner was graceful and self assured his voice and well and his tone was sympathetic if somewhat too his first sentences were to with attention he expressed his deep sympathy somewhat as the mayor had done but in better english and more tones with all classes especially with the working people a slight cough appeared to have attacked one portion of the audience but it stopped immediately and silence once more fell on the assemblage as he proceeded and now he said as he advanced a step nearer to the edge of the platform and having delivered himself of his preliminary expressions of threw up his head and assumed his best pulpit manner under a full sense of my responsibility to my people and my by john marvel assistant country i wish to counsel you as your friend as the friend of the poor � the slight cough i have mentioned became audible again � as the friend of the whose interests i have so deeply at heart at this moment a young man who had taken a seat well to the front on the main aisle rose in hia seat and politely asked if the doctor would allow him to ask him a question j the answer to which he believed would enable the audience to understand his position better the pleasant tone of the young man led the doctor to give permission and also the young man s appearance for it was certainly my dear sir he said suddenly held up in his hand a newspaper i wish he said to ask you where you dined last friday night with whom the question provoked a sudden of and cheers and cries of derision and in a moment had broken loose the doctor attempted to speak again and again but about all that could be heard was his that he was their friend whose question had caused the commotion was now mounted on a chair and waving his arms wildly about him and presently moved by curiosity the tumult subsided and the audience sat with their faces turned toward the man on tlie chair he turned and with a sweep of his arm toward the stage he cried we don t want to hear you what have you done that you should give us advice what do you know of us when have you ever to the cry of the by the peace maker destitute when have you ever visited the and the in affliction unless they were rich when have you ever done anything but on and flatter whom are you here to help and set free to day these people high priest of wealth and power and we know you and your friends � the you ask to free is not the but the robber of vice and patron of sin i his long arm pointed at the platform where sat his face black with impotent rage if we are to have a priest to address us let us have one that we can trust give us a man like john marvel we know him and he knows us he turned and pointed to marvel the effect was shouts of marvel mr marvel i marvel marvel john marvel rang from their throats and suddenly as with one impulse the men turned to our comer where john marvel had sunk in his seat to escape observation and in an instant he was seized drawn forth and lifted bodily on the shoulders of men and borne to the platform as if on the crest of a wave and dr were both shouting to the audience but they might as well have addressed a tropical the cries of marvel marvel drowned every other sound and presently those on the stage gathered about both and the and after a moment one of them stepped forward and asked john marvel to speak by john marvel assistant john marvel stepped forward to the edge of the platform and reached out one long arm over the audience with an awkward but telling gesture that i had often seen him use keeping it extended until after one great outburst of applause the tumult had died down my friends he began another tumult that it yea we are your friends still the arm outstretched silence he b an to speak quietly and slowly and his voice suddenly struck me as singularly sympathetic and clear as it must have struck the entire assembly for suddenly the tumult ceased and the hall became perfectly quiet he spoke only a few minutes declaring that he had not come to speak to them but to be with them and pray that god might give them he said us peace and show some way out of the blackness which had settled do n upon them he bade them not despair however dark the cloud might be which had them they might be sure that god was beyond it and that he would give light in his own time he was leading them now as always � the presence of that assembly with so many of the leading men of the city asking a conference was in itself a proof of the great advance their cause had made that cause was not as some thought so much money a day but was the claim to justice and consideration and kindness he himself was not a business man he knew nothing of such matters his duty was to preach � to preach peace � to 