St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-10-23

lips. learnt it by heart: and, a few
days ago, jotted down the melody, and
got my friend Perkins to arrange the
soug in four parts, 50 we :could have i:
for a song. Perhaps you would like to
hear the words. They are as follows;
Nobody knows de trouble | see,
Nobody knows but Jesus:
Nobody knows de trouble see.
Sing glory hallelu'.
Sometimes I'm up. sometimes I'm down.
Sometimes I'm lebel wild de groun',
Sometimes the glory shines arouh'.
Sing glory hailelu'!
Nobody knows de work | does,
Nobody knows but Jesus;
Nobody knows de work does,
Sing glory hallelu'.
Sometimes ! scrub. sometimes | scOur,
Sometimes bakes the Iniun flour.
Sometimes squeeze de lemons sour.
Sing glory hallelu'.
Nobody knows de griets has.
Nobody hnoWs out Jesus;
Nobody knows de griets l has.
Sing glory hallelu'.
Sometimes my soul is sunk in fears.
Sometimes | weeps de bitter tears.
And sadly wait de lingering years,
Sing glory hallelu'.
Nobody knows de joys l has,
Nobody knows but Jesus;
Nobody knows de JOYS has,
Sing glory hallelu'.
For I've a Saviour in de skies.
Aud when dis weary body dies
NV ransomed soul to Him will rise.
Sing glory hallelu' -
Ant Rachel used to say when |
uets to de las verse of dat song, L alu>
feels as though | wanted to pour out my
raplured feelings i'll sich hebenly howl
lis I'd swing my soul clean ober Jordan
and land it plump in de realms oh bliss
an glory"
suppose | ought to say something,
although 1t Is getting late, about the
.'Wickedest Mau." There has been a
great deal said about my friend John
Allen. In the first place, john w,.> the
wickedest man in New York. There Is
no question about that shall stick to
that. Ga the 18th day OF August, John
,hu, up his dance house. He came up
to my Office the Friday before, and told
me: Tomorrow night | am going to
close M dance house" | could hardly
believe it. | had 10 ask him three OF
four times over: is that 50. John
There is no going back on that 2'' No,
said he, Il am going to 10 it. L Lave
made up my mind. | have been up 10
sec my father; and the Old man has been
praying over me a great many years, and
Lcsecching me TO Shut up the dance house
and quit that course OF life. lie said
that | L;.l children growing up, and !
ought 10 10 il and L am going TO do it
anyhow" And he did 1t simply Of his
own snotiou, of his own free will. Mr.
Arnold. Of the Howard Mission, Mr.
Beach "a young theological student from
Newton Scmilary,) and |, thought We
| would be in at the death Of the dance
house. so went down there a little sbe-
fore II O'Clock that Saturday night.
And when II o'clock came John said
This is the end Of the dance house. No
more dancing here" And | was i'm
pressed whcn, about three or four min
utes afterward, somebody came in to gel
some whiskey, John said: ''No, sir; nc
more Of that-it is all up here" Th,
man said What DO you mean - 81
mean. replied John, that there Is nC
more liquor TO be sold here. This is moi
dance house any longer
The dance house expired at 2 o clock
John sad: Lock the door, and put VI
the shutters. Please leave, gentleman
30 out" Mr.. Arnold, and Mr.. Beach
and |. and two neighbors WHO had come
in. were in there after the shutters haC
been put up. One Of the nel2hbors he
been "a liquor-seller twenty years in thai
ward AMI he, that day, singuarIy
enough. had sold out. He wanted tC
stay there, and John let him stay. He
talked to us considerably, and said he
had come to the conclusion that keeping
a liquor shop was not the thing that HI
had Il family, too, and it would not do
and he was going 10 quit that ward
and live up town, and he a respectable
man.
Mr.. Arnold, who never misses an op
portunity for doing a good thing, in ;
few minutes said =: "John, right here i
a good place Tor prayer. You hav
shut up the old shop,and are not going t.
keep a dance house any longer, and ar
not going to sell any more liquor. Sup
pose we have prayer here"
John nsaid ''lf you want to pray,
have no objections to anybody's pray
ing"
The inmates of the house were all 90
into the room, also Mis-. Allen; and MIR
Arnold prayed and then think John
or one OF the girls, said: "Let US sing
= hymn." They are always very fond o
singing hymns. Several hymns wer
sun1 and Mr.. Arnold said: John
q cant we have meeting Tomorrow p
, am thus precise in these Statements bC
cause there have been SO many misrep
. rescntatlons of the facts. Up to thu
momen. nobody had thought OF having
+ meeting there, Mr.. Arnold said