Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1889-02-14


nists and socialists. He was formerly
an officer in the army and was educated
in Q COVE rnment military school
M, Jacques IL the candidate of the
Repub licans-the supporter. of the
present governmnnt. de b. life u
Q school teacher. and WAS afterwards q
successful wine merchant. The contest
between them is . very exciting one
and the walls along our way to church
covered with flashing campaign posters
OF oil colors. Arrived It the church
We found it . magnificent one inside
and the service OF high church char.
acter, but the sermon was an excellent
one on the 1st verse OF Isaiah, 5lst. Al
the company were passing out, in
quired of . gentleman where | could
find . MCCALL mission. As it turned
out he was . worker in the mission
himself and told me when and where [
could attend service conducted BY
MCCALL himself-a good fortune OF
which l did not dream, when some
weeks ago. said it reached Paris,
should certainly visit the mission.
When l came into the street in
which the mission was located 1 found
myself Just ut the Madeleine" Q "a
NOUS Catholic church. A crowd OF
people were entering, and fell in with
the current and when inside found that
l was Just in time for the celebration of
high mass" The great church WAS
filed to overfowing. hundreds of peo-
pie filing the entrance and the aisles,
and ffi GERS in regimentals to keep them
quiet The service was OF course most
Impressive of its kind, and the music
was indescribably grand. When the
service WAS over l set out again on my
search for the mission and soon reached
it.
Inside, found it forcible contrast
to the great cathedral which had Just
visited. But for the small pipe organ
one could easily imagine himself in .
Friends' meeting house in some Ameri-
can village.
The room is probably 6Ox35 feet and
severely plain 1t 10 seated with chairs
300. was just in time for
the service, and the house WAS we'll
filed with very respects BILE looking peo-
pie. In front WAS = platform with the
simplest kind OF . reading desk. ct
which Mr.. Mccall, IN elderly man,
sat The exercises we're all in French
and were conducted very much after
the manner OF l.. NJ. y. "A.
Gospel meeting. A hymn, read
by Mr. McCall-and sung By the
Bible-readine also By
Mr.. Mccall, then an earnest prayer BY
one of his Missionaries short address
by another Missionary hymn-anoth-
or shtrt talk BY . missionsry-another
hymn and . prayer and the service
closed. 1t was perfectly informal. aud
enlisted the deepest interest from the
company of attendants. Mr.
Mccall began his work in this city
Deventeen years ago. the call having
some to him in Providential way. He
now has forty three missions under his
,haree and they are doing . wonderful
work. After . pleasant chat with this
worker. rs passed out OF
he room I met the gentleman who had
me to the mission in the morn
ng, stopped to speak with him. and
n the course of our conversation asked
Ibout tho Sabbath election which was
n proeress-the manner in which il vas
where the voting places were
to. he told me that the voting Was
lone at the school houses and ~ there
was one very Fear. he would take me in.
10 through his kindness I had the
louble pleasure of getting inside of