Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-10-16

All comfortable and snug, neat and clean
Refreshed by a rinse and cup Of tea, W,
were a, the preaching place, "on time
"a b . neat rom holding 400 people ovsi
the coffee room which IL here rather NOR,
attractive than usual and even on com
Portable par with an average grog shop
hope Il will keep up sppearanceu," fol
most Of them arc uninviting in the en-
IRENE, az have mentioned before. All u
now a. bright as paint and sarnish car
make the rooms, and the meeting Is held
10 give the enterprise good Gospel" sent
oil, and set the hey note TO future opera
tions In all Of which, being DESTROYS .,
lend helping hand 10 every good work
| am reioiced to be a fellow laborer. Thu
interchangeable Bro. Hopkins has enlisted thu
local Ministry, and to my estonishment
found meetings appointed for $3.50 p. NJ
each day, alternately in the Baptist. Con
gregational, Wesleyan and Primitive Meth
odisl ohapela, ss well az the pastors o
those places on the platform, in part Al
they had leisure 10 attend. This is thu
first experience Of the kind in England
and we are duly grateful and glad. The
preachers eeem good, warm-hearted men
and we are Trusting 10 win them TO "oui
gospel" The opening service was well al.
tended with evident good impressions
The q ret P. NJ. meeting at the Trinity Bap
list Chapel was alec thoroughly satisfac
tory one, add Tuesday night the Hall was
comfortably filed, with three confessions
and very fixed attention from all Just be
fore had visited s"Bsnd Of Hope chill.
dren's meeting at Melting "Provideno'
Congl. Chapel in the next village 10 Bex.
ley, where all the dear children, about for.
~ in number, gave their hearts TO Jesus in
their childish way. Before that Marie and
I had been up to one city service among
the working Women" at Jewin ard AL
dersgste streets. Two there and three al
Bexley made five services in all for the
day, little wearysome but very precious
indeed, aud the weary" all righted by a
good nights rest
SEPT. 29th. continue and finish my
letter broken of for several days, TO 20 by
to-day's mail. We have three mails 10 the
U. s. per week, VIZ. Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday. Major Burnaa and Tut,
as also Mics sallie Lindenberger sail in
the Arizona to-day, and we pray for their
safe arrival among the dear waiting friends
a, home. We don't dare think that
way nor look Westward, lest the hearts
nausea "home sickness" should seize us.
The work Of the LORD progresses quiz
city 10 Bexley, the ministers mentioned
above being still cordial, and even the
Vicar Of "Chrisl's Church" giving friend
~ look in at the hall door, last night just
at the close Of the service. / am told he
would even have taken a more active part
in the meeting but for Harvest Festival
series of services in HE own corner Of the
vineyard, which have kept him away.
We have had four precious p. NJ. services
Tor Christians at the various dissenting
churches in town and tomorrow | am in
yiied TO preach in the Baptist church in
the morning and in the evening in the Con
gregational chapel. There have been IL
confessions in the hall thus far and excel
lent attendance at all the meetings. The
work among the young women at the Y.
NJ G. A. room in Aldersgate st has ben
crowned with blessings Iester-
day fourteen confessed Jesus, which nearly
swept the deck and brought the entire au-
iience on Jesus side. Praise the LORD
Thursday lot Of eur dear Highgate
friends met US by appointment at the
'Woolwich Royal Arsenal" which is only
four and one-half miles from Bexley, with
busses running every hour during portions
Df each day Eleven Of us went in to in
,pect the centre of England's war power,
and an awful place il is, making sll who
enter it, with the LORDS love in their
hearts to pray more earnestly for the com
ing Of the time when the 'swords thall be
turned into plough shares aud the spears
INTO pruning hooks, and the men shall
earn uar no more" IN this 800 acre en-
closure can be found more diabolical con-
.rivances for taking human life than in
my place perhaps on earth. The marvel
ous 80 ton guns for bulk, surpas, anything
me could imagine in the shape Of piece
If ordnance. The whole beggars de.crip-
ion; 10000 men are constantly employed
urning out those murderous appliances
o maintain the position Of Eugland IA
me OF the Great Powers. And 80 the rest
zig and little hold to what they have, or
'tretch out greedy hands for more, and
is god. Can any one deny
What satan proudly said to our Jesus, "The
Iingdoms Of this world are mine and the
,lory Of them; and to whomsoever | will,
will give them" Our Lord did not gain
ay the abatement, for It was a true one, al
hough uttered by the "farther Of lies"
lie uttered it to gain lying point, for the
EVIL can speak truth, II it will do ehec-
ually the work Of lie We all came
way impressed with the thought that we
lad been in one Of the DEVILS workshops,
hough many dear child Of God is mixed
p with II az we are, IN one way or another
nless we walk closely with God, where
the wicked one toucheth US mott. The
ecent fire at Woolwich and the explosion
I 500 deadly rockets came near proving a
readful catastrophe, but only two persons