The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-04-30
A Brand lrssn ths Bursting.

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| Next TO Mr.. Spurgeon, the most ei-
fectiye Gospel preacher to the masses
IN England is the @seye Newman Hall.
His church--the famous Surrey Chap
el," Of Rowland Hill stands not far
from Mr. Surgeons Tabernacle, andis
one Of the shining lights of the metrop-
oils. To Newman Hall the world owes
that brief, powerful treatise. Come 70 Je-
sus, which has been circulated by the
million; to him the temperance cause
owes the influence of noble advocacy;
TO him the American people owe a great
debt of gratitude for his eloquent de-
fence OF Union and Emancipation be-
fore the British public all through the
late war But Newman Hall himself
owes quite ms much to the faithful train
ing of his father. the late John Vine
Hall, of London.
On a summer evening in 1857 We adj
dressed one of Newman Halls great
monthly temperance meetings in Sur
rey Chapel, about fifteen hundred peo-
Pile being present. In the chair sat
handsome old gentleman. with snowy
hair and sunny face, who was intro
duced to us us 'the author of the Sin
ner,s Friend" We had heard of the ia
nous tract, and were glad to grasp the
hand that wrote it. The biography OF
the dear old man published by the A.
merican Tract Society lies before us as
we now write, and We see the same
pleasant face beaming from the title
page of the volume.
John Vine Hall was brand plucked
from the burning, He was born in Nor
folkshire, England, in l774, and spent
much of his boyhood as an errandboy
in wine-shop in Maidstone. Little
Jack" was mischievous fellow came
near losing his life by drowning, by be-
ing crushed under ahogshead Of liquor
and by tumbling into CELLAR among q
heap of wine-bottles. A worse danger
than an these befell him; for he soon
became q drinker Of the drains be sold
to others, and his early manhood fonnd
him a scofier and n tippler. His diary
for July twenty-fourth, 1910, contains
the terribly brief entry of these words
alone: drunkenness horrible de-
lprayity" On the first of March he
writes: six days drunk; awful ruin. >
On another page he writes; MY busi
ness was gone, health destroyed, char
acter ruined, dear wife miserable -
This dear wife" he married before he
became so desperate a drinker, and his
early courtship WAS an odd one. He
saw her first. pretty gfrl of seventeen,
walking to Angel-street chapel, in Wor-
cester, with an elderly lady leaning ON
her arm. AS young Hall was himself
conveying his good 5ld mother to
church, the coincidence struck his fam
cy; he stared hard Nj her during the
service, and on the next Sabbath lac
waited for her ON her way to church,
and could not resist the temptation G.
speak to her.
A gent emAn, seeing him beside
her, told him the next day that she was
Miss Teyerill, the cleyerest girl in al
Worcester. He fell violently Id love
with her. visited her clandestiney at 9
retired rural house, to which her par.
ents sent her to be out of his way, and
on the twenty Of August, 1906
Miss Mary Teyerill became the wife oi
Little Jack Hall" When ffty-ons
, years of their married life had worn of
his wife's wedding-ring, the happy old
lover tells us in courtly style how he
presented her with u new one, and
placed it on her finger with heartfelt
kiss Of love and gratitude to Almghty }
God"
This sweet woman was his good an.
: gel during the dark years of hs drhn +.
en- degradation, During the half-dozen
years Of his tremendous struggle t.
break the cruel slavery Of the bottle
| this patient woman held fast 10 him
with true wife's constancy. Some oi
his confessions are as thrilling ai
Coughs. He writes; "Often have Ia.
| ken the dreadful glars into my hand
and looked at the wine with sort ol
, sensible horror, yet had no power TO re
sist the strong impulse to let il pass my
, throat" As his drunkenness had be.
come confirmed disease, has wife per,
| suaded him TO place himself under tho
| medical treatment OF worthy DR.. Day
who prescribed for him draught'
. of steel and poppermit-water
with ttro or three giasses ~ por tein'
after dinner In those days there were
no total abstinence societies, and no
/ pledge. The result was that. az DIR
| Day did not recommend entireabaiaenc,
from all Intoxicating drinks, bis pool
| patient vas continually back into drunk
enness through the influence Of the
two or three glasses Of port" and the
moderate use Of d little porter" Al
this time be was going 70 1hurcA, and
praying earnestly for delivefance. Bui
, as long as be tampered with even 9
, wine glass Of the treacherous drink, hs
, gained no victory over bis fatal appe-
tite. A single glass was a spark 10 the
gunpowder. Al length he took the ds
eieive resolution nj n touch drop 81
the poison, IN any shape. and is soon
able % rscord in his diary. aFsbrunry