The record-union., 1896-08-09
McEWEN'S DISCOVERY
AND
WHERE HE MADE IT.
How the Saved Discipline the I'm
regenerate at a Summer Resort.

Next day I called on a worldly lady.
When we had talked for time about
other things, she said suddenly that
some time before she had bought cloth
for a dress, but somehow she had lost
all desire to have it made up, and
wouldn't / oblige her by taking it.
There! You see how the Lord pro-
vided. She knew nothing about my
prayer, for it had been in secret. The
Lord had been at work"
Mrs. Montgomery gave this expert
ence in manifest good faith. It had
not suggested itself to her that the
worldly lady observed her sanity
young friends shabbiness and sought
with delicacy to do her kindness. The
tale Of a miraculously supplied cloak
followed; it had come in the severe
Eastern winter in response to a prayer
for precisely that fashion of cloak. Not
trace of grateful remembrance of the
givers of the rent, dress or cloak re-
NAMED; they had been but automata
moved by Mrs. Montgomery Lord to
reward her for her faith.
Sometimes" she cried, cIasping her
hands in passion of pious feeling,
queerly mingled with feminine CO.
quetry, when I remember the days
when was only little Carrie Judd, with
no great, big husband to care for me.
and how 1 lived like the sparrows on
the Lord, long for their return Now
you know we have lots of property,
and property causes so much trouble
and needs so much thought and care.
Once 1 crept into my dear husbands
arms and said to him, sobbing, Darling,
oh, darling, let us give it all away and
throw ourselves on the Lordl' But my
dear husband said, as he caressed and
comforted me: Darling, are you not
strong enough. with the dear Lords
help, to bear the cross of stewardship
And then l saw that my dear husband
was right. Blessed be the name of the
Lordi"
Ameni" shouted the brethren and
sisters in the front seats, but the hard
working ranchers in the back seats who
have business dealings with Brother
Montgomery, and some of whose farms
are mortgaed to him, did not join in the
admiring chorus
An elderly woman with shining ewes
and strained face changed the a1nens
into wild CALCULATIONS of exultation
when she told how in her days of
wealth and comparative vanity she had
gone to Europe for the sole purpose of
purchasing a musical clock When she
reached Paris the Holy. Spirit bore it
upon her that such wishes were un-
worthy of Christian with an immortal
soul to save. So she returned home
straightway to find that her household
CLOCK OI1t of 11a nd
run. When she fell upon her knees and
represented to the Lord that as she had
Given up the musical clock for His
sake, she felt that He might vouchsafe
her the blessing of setting her old one
going again. And, bless His holy
name, that old clock started right up.
and had kept perfect time ever since
fifteen years.
When the shouting had died out a
brother recounted that his watch had
similarly been repaired by divine
agency. This fell rather fiat, however
and the brother in his embarrassed dis
appointment raised a, hymn, which was
taken up by the choir, led by a self
conscious young man, once a dive art
ist, who rolled his RS and caroled that
he was che-ild of Gawd, in the linger-
be the most effective when expressing
sentiment.
The set sermon was by the Rev. Os-
born, an immense man in black with an
immense red beard, and with a voice
SURPRISING in immensity all other i'm
mensities. I never heard such another
voice. 1t filled the forest and fright
ened the animals, wild and domesti-
Gated. 1t is because of his voice that
Brother Osborn is a power at camp
meetings and revivals-I understand he
is famous in his world-for he has moth
inS else to go on. He spoke for upwards
of an hour, or doomed and beloved.
rather, yet his discourse was unchanged
with thought. It was a miracle as sur
prising almost as those recounted by
Mrs. Montgomery how a human being
could talk SO long and say so little But
1t revealed one of the many uses of the
ministry. Without its existence preach
ers of Brother Osborn's mental capac-
ity could not escape wood-sawing and
shoveling.
After Brother Osborn's voice cracked
and his giant frame showed signs of ex-
haustion, the saved went about among
the unsaved telling them plainly and
with undoubting conviction that un-
less they made open profession of con-
version and became even as the chosen
before them in all things they would go
TO hell. TO an announcement of this
KIND delivered to her personally by a
girl young enough to be her daughter
a girl once OF the slums-a lady from
Cazadero demurred. She would wor-
ship God in her own way, as she al
ways had, being a good Episcopalian.
and thought her Maker would be mer-
ciful.
Then" said the girl, with fire in her
eye and anger in her tone, 'I shall pray
that you may be made so miserable, so
utterly miserable and wretched, that
you won't care to live. Perhaps that
will break your proud heart and bring
you to the Lord"
Thereupon the lady, outraged and IN
dignant, arose and journeyed back to
Cazadero. The poor guests at Caxadero
have had trying time of it during the
summer. Long conducted as other re-
sorts are, for the pleasure of its patrons.
hundreds came as usual, mostly in fam
lily parties. The men found that nothing
was to be had to drink; orders for wine
or beer at tables, even, being interdicted
The tennis court had been removed, the
croquet ground fallen into decay aud
the mallets taken away. Card playing
without stakes carried groans at Elm
Grove hard by where Mr. and Mrs.
Montgomery lived and prayed and re-
ceived the profits, IL any. The walls Of
the hotel We're hung with advertisements
Of religious meetings, the pious came UP
from Elim, looked askance at the