Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-11-10

ognizcd, n good thought crosses his mind,
| for no has heard Of men flung fiat rising
| again. Arriving ut his house, he calls his
| wife in and shuts tho door and says:
| "Mary, l am going to do differently. This
is not what promised you when we were
married. You have been very patient
with mo and have borne everything, al
though would have had no right to com
plain IL you had left me and gone homo to
your fathers house. 1t seems to me that
once or twice when 1 was not myself l
struck you, and several times, know, 1
called you hard names. Now 1 want you
to forgive mc. 1 nm going to do better,
and want you to help me-" Help your"
she says Bless your SOUL of course l
| will help you. | knew you didn't mean it
when you treated me roughly. All that
| is IL the past. Never refer to 1t again.
Today let us begin anew"
Sympathizing friends come around and
kind business people help the man to
something to do, so that he can again
earn living. The children soon have
clothing so that they can go to school.
The old songs which the wife sang years
! ago come back to her memory and she
sings them over again Mt tho cradle or
while preparing the MONDAY meal Do
! mcstic resurrection! He comes homo
earlier than he used to, and he is glad to
spend the evening playing games with the
children or helping them with arithmetic
or grammar lessons which are little too
hard. Time passes on, and some outsider
suggests to- him that he is not getting ms
much out of life as he ought and proposes
an occasional visit to scenes of worldlincss
and dissipation. He consents to go once.
and, after much solicitation, twice. Then
his old habit comes back. lie says he has
been belatcd and could not get back until
midnight He had to SEQ some western
merchant that had arrived and talk of
business with him before he got out of
town. Kindness and Rcniality again quit
the disposition of that husband and father.
Tho wifc's heart breaks in n new place
That man goes into n second wrestlc with
evil habit and is flung and all hell cacklcs
at the moral defeat. IL told you sou say
many good people who have no faith la
the information of n fallen mnn. IL told
you So, You made great fuss about his
restored home, but | knew 1t would not
last You cant trust these fellows who
have once gone wrong" So with this I'M
fortunate, things get worse and worse
and his family have To give up the house,
and the last valuable goes to the pawn
brokers shop. But that unfortunate man
is sauntcring along the street ono sunday
night, and he goes up to u church door,
and the congregation are singing the Sec
ond hymn, the one just before sermon, and
it is William Cowpcr's glorious hymn:
There is fountain filed with blood
Drawn frsn Emmanuels veins,
And sinners plunged beneath that food
Lose all their guilty stains.
Victory Through Christ.
He goes into the vcstihulc Of the church
and stops there, not feeling we'll enough
dressed To 90 among the worshipcrs, and
he hears the minister say, "Yuu will find
the words Of my text in Luke, the nine.
tcenth chapter and tenth verse, The Son
of Man Is come TO seek and save that which
was lost The listener in the veStibule
says: If any man was ever lost, am
lost. and the Son of Man came to save
that which is lost, and he has found me,
and he will take me ont of this lost con.
ition. Oh Christ, have mercy on me. "
The poor man has courage now to enter
the main audience room, and he sits down
on the first seat by the door, and hen at
the close of the service the minister comes
down the aisle the poor man tells his
story, and he is encouraged and invited to
come again, and the way is cleared for
him for membership i'm Christian church,
and he feels the omnipotcnce OF what
Peter the apostle said when he spoke of
thnse Kept ny the power OF pou through
iaith unto complete saiNation' Aot ne
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