Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-06-15

starting IN the poultry business do not
build one large. but sey er Il small ones
They need not cost much TO hold thirty,
or near that number, without crowd
ing. The smaller flock always does the
best under all circumstances, provided
they are fed in propoitiDn IA. Divide the
docks into several bail6ings, and
healthy fowls and the best results are
sure to follow, if food and cleanliness
are also provided.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Edin-
burgh.
The Spectator.
The British Messenger" says that
these honored christian laborers have
been unweariedly pursuing their work
in Edinburgh. and with every appear
ance of real and great success. They
have fairly won the ear of multitudes
of the lapsed population. By the
efforts OF christian men and women,
these persons receive tickets of admis-
sion to meetings in the Corn Exchange
which they are specially and earnestly
invited to attend. They do so in
crowds, and deep impressions have
been produced-impressiOns, il is be-
lieved, in many cases truly saving.
There have been special meetings held
in behalf of drunkards. This sin is
so fearfully prevalent, the victims of
it are found in 50 many families in
almost every class of society, its DESC
ating effects are so evident and appall-
ing while the helplessness of poor
drunkards in the tolls of the ensnar-
| ing vice makes their case SO pitiable
as well as blameworthy that sympathy
has been much excited in the evange-
| lists efforts to awaken them to q
practical sense of their guilt and
misery, and to rouse them from despair
to hope in the infinite grace and power
of God in Christ to save them. Mr.
Moody. with the view of doing this
more effectually, had invited q gentle
man from England-a solicitor, and
dluapnus of Cambridge-once a con-
lirmed, and, in the opinion of himself
and others, hopeless. drunkard; but
now, by the almighty grace of God, a
consistent christian and labOrer for
Christ for many years. to come to
Edinburgh and relate his experience in
the hearing of both christians and of
drunkards. We heard him do this,
and felt that nothing could be more
telling and impressive. The state
ment was made In the most becoming
manner, with great simplicity and
humility, and with apparently a simple
desire to honor Christ as his Saviour
from the sin by which he had been en-
shaved, and TO commend the same
Saviour to the hope and the trust Of
others still in The same way. He told
how be had been reli?iousIy brought
up by Wesleyan Methodist parents, had
studied at Cambridge. and has been Il
solicitor in an English city, bat had
fallen low through the vice OF drunken
ness, and ever lower and lower; until
ali who knew him regarded him as an
utterly lost man. for whom there was
no hope, HIS christian parents, how
ever, continued until their death to
pray in hope, and so had another rela-
tive after their decease. But all SEEM
ingly in vain. He had resisted even
the pleadings Of his sainted mother on
her death-bed; and, for a man who
has done that, what hope is there
more? But when be was at the very
lowest depth of his degradation, as he
was going cut one night to billiards,
and debauch, he was arrested by the
thought, "Where is all this to en- ?''
and conscience brought the answer to
his lips quick and awful, "In death
here and damnatiOn yonder." He had
rejected all the counSelS Of his father
now in heaven, and had resisted the
pleadings of his dying mother, and to
be saved, he said to himself, was now
impossible But at this critical mo-
ment the Spirit brought to his remem-
brance text out of the old Book which
he had not opened for years: with
God nothing shall be impossible
Nothing, not even the impossible." And
he remembered that this impossibility
was the one thing which God had
promised to perform. He fell on his
knees and asked God to make tina:
word good to him. He went out into
the darkness of the streets, but not to
gamble, not to drink; the desire for
either was Overmastered by another
yearning. what must / Go to be
saved?" was the cry of his heart. and
he hunted through miles of the crowd
, ed London thoroughfares for Wesley
an meeting; his early days having
been associated with Methodism in the
, home of the sleeping" parents.
, HIS search was fruitless, and be
! climbed up to his lodging, with the
3 words of hope still whispered in his
r ear. They seemed at first but feeble
thread in his hand; but every day, fol
nine days, they grew stronger aBG
thicker, till at last they became a great
3 cable in his grasp, and he swung on
1 at the end of it into the ocean of God:
! love and faithfulnessl At the end o.
e the ninth day he rtjoiced in the knowl
8 edge of sin forgiven. He trusted tn,
u Heavenly Father to do the impossiol,
= for him; and the Father answered hi
t faith by taxing absolutely away, from
+ the first night of the prodigal's return