Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-12-26

= And have the distress OF seeing these per
|, ishing Thousands around me with few OPP
{. portunites to approach them. II had
e money to rent halls and theatres where
q they congregate, something might be done
Enter a church door they will not. Come
y even to nice, cozy, quiet hall like our
Clarendon, they will not. But to the Coop.
er Union" where Herr Most, the Commun.
n JET, just out Of an Englsh Jail, addressed a
a packed audience Of red caps" and social.
q lets night before last, they will come; or to
Bowery Thestre, they will nock Where
the sheep are is the shepherds place. To
get at these lost sheep, cannot appeal TO
9 these New York strangers and therefore !
Z have gone to my friends in Kentucky. II
, remains to be seen what their response will
be. / shall have the merriest or saddest
Christmas Of my life next Monday. Which
} shall Il be- / still ask. The nightly col.
lections at the Hall about pay the rent Of
II nightly night. Our kind friend, Mrs.
stoddard, welcomes us 10 her hospilable ia
Bile. She il sister Of dear Bro. Munnell,
our unwavering friend Of the Louisville
Democrat. Her husband, a most genial
gentleman and noble christian, lie absent on
professional business, but expects to be
back for Christmas. file also Is in heartieet
sympathy. Our apartment" across the
street from DR.. Stoddard's This house is
packed. or we would have been taken in
there is paid for by occasional loving gifts
as Our Father sees we have need. We are
happy as ever trusting for daily bread and
never dream Of being forgotten by our low
ing God.
Ipaid visit to Mrs. Theodore Tilton
few days ago. She is a kind Of cousin,
though not Of blood-kin, and has always
been favorite relative with me. She is
and always has been a lady Of rare refine
ment and gentle lovliness. Those who have
only known her in connection with the hor-
rible Beecher trial, know nothing whatever
about her. Well, found her boarding
house in Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, after
little search, and she welcomed my visit
as Of old. She is fearfully altered by these
awful years. Her personal beauty, once
very marked, is almost gone-only here
and there trace. The soft, bright inno-
cent eye remains, but that alone. Her
delicate hands once soft as velvet, are hard
with toll; the lustrous dark brown hair is
very gray and the pink and white Of the
old beautiful complexion replaced by a
dull sallow. But her life is full Of peace
and rest that "the world cannot give" The
seven times heated furnace has purified,
not consumed Save the dross) and to-day
she has what others have not, a conscience
void Of offence toward God and man." OF
in the day when accounts are settled, land
they will be, thank Cod let me be in her
company and there like her, venturing all
to keep everything right with God. write
this word for my dear cousin, Of whom 1 .
am prouder than in the days when she WIS
not the forsaken creature she il, but the
centre Of admiring social circle, where all
acknowledged her charms. l cannot say ,
that slime at last sets all things even,7 az
Byron does, but know eternity does. And
so l bid her good bye, with the radiant
smile Of the reflex Of the deep soul-peace
lighting up her faded face and for mo-
ment clarifying the ravages of grief and
despair.
meet other friends Of the past, once !;
and again. Dear Dave Jewett, a class
mate at Princeton, grown to be gray head
ed ID. d. | think, but with the boyish heart
still beating in his bosom, chatted me an
hour or two yesterday. We went over the !,
whole ground with the affection Of the past
keeping us both sweet. though he is an or
thodox Presbyterian aud am-what? The
dear fellow slipped $50 bill into my hand !
as he went out, after wringing il heartily.
The New York papers take very little
stock in us. | called en- Dana, Of the Sun, !,
and he welcomed me very cordially to the
city. Several not unfavorable articles had
from time to time, been printed in the Sun
and felt free to call and pay my respects :
He is a noble looking gentleman-very
rank in manner and what he is-a man of
distinguished brain power. His reporter
was at our opening meeting and gave in
asst Saturdays paper fair account of the '
services. Since then-silence. But we
'ouid scarcely expect the courtesy Of !
stranger to go further. When we come in 4
10 prominent potice so that good word a
will interest his readers, doubt not we !
hall get all the occasion calls for.
The Times also had report in the same /
ssue, which did us much harm. / hope :
{ was not intended to injure, but it
certainly frightened some Of our good Pres. :
'yterian friends, who had been favorable to
'ur coming here. almost into fits; so that
hey took II all back and we shall have to
'isit that "old stamping ground" on our
own hook" which We shall do, If the
ORD will, most surely.
Awaiting our merry Christmas" from
and certain to have one from the
ORD -anyhow-ever in Jesus,
GEO o. BARNES.