The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-01-04
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ut on his hat and gone back to his seat
n the stone. The bishop WAS thinking
ard.
"How long is it since ron had work"
ie asked. and the man standing up
answered for the other.
"Moren six months since either of
us did anything to tell of, unless you
count holding up work. call it pretty
wearing kind of a job myself, especially
when we put in a night like this one
and don't make nothing.
Suppose found good jobs for both
of you. Would you quit this and begin
all over?"
Whats the use?" The man on the
stone spoke sullenly 1--WE reformed a
hundred times. Every time | 90 down
r. The devils begun to forcelose
lready. It's too late. -
said the bishop, and never De
most entranced audience had
he desire for souls burn up in
strongly. All the time he sat
ing the remarkable scene he
o Lord Jesus, give me the
lese two for theel am hun
heml Give them to me!''
the bishop repeated. what
want of you two menr 1t
much matter what | want,
sants just what | do in this
u two men are Of infinite value
And then the bishops won
lemory came to his aid in an
uch as no one else on earth
len could make under such cir
lces He had remembered the
lame in spite of the wonderfully
ars that lay between his coming
louse and the present moment
ms" he said, and he yearned
men with an unspeakable long
them both, "if you and your
here will go home with me to-
l will find you both places of
able employment. will believe
u and trust you. You are both
aratively young men. Why should
lose your 1t is great thing to
.he love of the great Father. 1t is
all thing that should love you,
f you need to feel again that there
owe in the world you will believe
when say. my brothers, that love
'ou, and in the name of him who was
rucified for our sins / cannot bear to
ee you miss the glory of the human
ife. Comel Be menl Make another try
n it, God helping you. No one but
cd and you and mvself need ever
" anyth, g of this tonight He has
.orgiven it. fhe minute you ask him to
you will find that true. Come! Wen
fight it out together, you two and l.
It's worth fighting for. Everlasting life
is. 1t was the sinner that Christ came
to help. I'll do what l can for you. o
God, give me the souls of these two
menl"
The bishop broke into prayer to
God that was n continuation of his ap-
peal to the men. His pent up feeling
had no other outlet. Before he had
prayed many moments Burns was sit
ting with his face buried in his hands,
sobbing. Where We're his mother's S
prayers nowY They were adding to the
power Of the bishops. And the other
man, harder. less moved, without a
previous knowledge of the bishop, leaned
back against the fence, stolid at first,
but as the prayer went on he was moved
by it. What force of the Holy Spirit
swept over his dulled, brutal coarsened
life nothing but the eternal records of
the recording angel can ever disclose,
but that same upernatural presence that
smote Paul on the road to Damascus
and poured through Henry Maxwell S
church the morning he asked disciples
to follow in Jesus steps and had again
broken irresistibly over the Nazareth
Avenue congregation now manifested
himself in this foul corner of the mighty
city and over the natures Of these two
sinful, sunSen men, apparently lost to
all the pleadings Of conscience and
memory of God. The bishops prayer
seemed to break open the crust that had
for years surrounded these two men and
shut them off from divine communica-
tion, and they themselves were thor
oughly startled by the event.
The bishop ceased, and at first he
himself did not realize what had hap
pened. Neither did the two men. Burns
still sat with his head bowed between
his hands. The man leaning against the
fence looked at the bishop with face
in which new emotions of awe, repent
ance, astonishment and broken CLEAN
of joy struggled for expression.
The bishop rose.
"Come, my brothers! God is good.
You shall stay at the settlement tonight,
and I will make good my promise as to
the work"
The two men followed the bishop in
silence. When they reached the settle
ment. it was after O'Clock. The bishop
let them in and led them to room. AT
he door he paused a moment. His tall,
commanding figure stood in the door
way. and his pale face, worn with his
recent experiences. was illuminated
with the divine glory. -
"God bless you, my brothersH' he