The true northerner., 1900-03-21

pulled him down unceremoniously and
rose. Carlson was angry at first and
threatened little disturbance. but the
bishop reminded him Of the rule. and
he subsidized. with several mutterings
in his beard. while the next speaker be-
gan with very strong eulogy on the
value of the single tax as q genuine
remedy for all the social ills He was
followed by man who made bitter
attack on the churches and ministers
and declared that the two great obsta-
cles in the way of all true reform were
the courts and the ecclesiastical ma
chimes
When he sat down. q man who bore
every mark of being street laborer
sprang to his feet and poured out per-
feet torrent Of abuse against the corpor-
ations. especially the railroads. The
minute his time was up big, brawny
fellow who said he was a metal worker
by trade claimed the floor and declared
that the remedy for the social wrongs
was trades unionism. This. be said.
would bring on the millennium for la
Dor more than anything else. The next
man endeavored to give some reasons
why so many persons were out of en-
ployment and condemned inventions as
the works of the devil He was loudly
applauded by fhe rest of the company
Finally the bishop valled time on the
''free for all and asked Rachel to sing
Rachel Winslow had grown into a
very strong. healthful. humble Chris
tian during that wonderful year in
Raymond dating from the Sunday
when she first took the pledge to do as
Jesus would do, and her great talent Of
soE3 had been fully consecrated to the
service Of her Master When she began
to sing tonight at this settlement meet
ing, she had never prayed more deeply
for results TO come from her voice-the
voice which she now regarded as the
Masters, to be used for him.
Certainly her prayer was being an
swered as she sang. She had chosen the
words:
Hark, the voice of Jesus calling,
Follow me. follow mel
Again Henry Maxwell, sitting there,
was reminded of his first night at the
the people into quiet The effect was
the same here. What wonderful power
a good voice consecrated to the Masters
service always isl Rachel's great nat
ural ability would have made her one
of the foremost opera singers of the age.
Surely this audience had never before
heard such melody. How could it The
men who had drifted in from the street
sat entranced by voice which "back
in the world" never could be heard by
the common people because the owner
of it would charge So or So for the
privilege. The song poured out through
the hall as free and glad as if it were a
foretaste of salvation itself.
Carlsen. with his great black bearded
face, absorbed the music with the deep
love of it peculiar to his nationality,
and tear ran over his cheek and glis-
tened in his beard as his face softened
and became almost noble in its aspect.
The man out of work who had wanted
to know what Jesus would do in his
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of the bench in front of him, with his
mouth partly open. his great tragedy
for the moment forgotten. The song
while it lasted was food and work and
warmth and union with his wife and
babies once more The man who had
spoken so fercely against the churches
and the ministers sat with his head
erect at first with look of stolid re-
sistance, as if he stubbornly resented
the introduction into the exercises Of
anything that was even remotely con-
nected with the church or its form of
worship. but gradually he yielded to
the power that was swaying the hearts
Of all the persons in that room, and a
look of sad thoughtfulness crept over
his face.
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