Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-18

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 The man laughed savageIy. Then be struck his hand against the fence with such sudden passion that he drew blood
 Kept itl was drunk inside of 2 week. I've been drinking eyer since but I've never forgotten you or YauY prayer. Do you remember, the morning after l came to gour house and after breakfast, you had prayers and asked me to come in and sit with the rest ;? That got me. But my mother used to pray can sec her now kneeling down by my bed when I was a lad. Father cane Tn one night drunk and kicked her while she was kneeling there bv me, but l never forgot that prayer of yours that morning You prayed for ne just as mother used to, and YOU did hot seem to take count cf the fact that was ragged and tough looking and more than half drunk when fung v6ur aaorbell. My God what q life I've lived The saloon has housed he aaa homed me and made hail oa earth ff454. ne. But that prayer stuck tome all fhe tune. lily promise not to drink Yaa broken in a thousand pieces inside of two sundays, and Host the 1ab Y0a found for me and landed in police sta- ton two days afterwaFd, but l never forgot you or y0ur prayer l don know what good it's done me, but never forgot it. and 1 won | do any harm to you nor let any one else. So you re free to go That $ why
 The bishop did not stir Somewhere q church clock struck L The man had put on his hat and gone back to his seat on the stone The bishop WAS thinking hard
 How long is it since you had work 2'' he asked, and the man standing up answered for the other.
 Zssdore'n six months since either of Us did anything to tell of, unless you count holding up work 1 call it pretty wearing kind of a job myself, especially when we put ill 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
 What's the use2' The nan on the stone spoke sullenly q 'Ye reformed 8 hundred times. Every time I go down deeper The devils begun to forcelose on me already It too late .
 "Nor' said the bishop, and never be fore the most entranced audience had he felt the desire for souls burn mp in him so strongly All the time he sat there during the remarkable scene he prayed: 70 Lord Jesus. give me the souls of these two for theel am hun gry for them Give them to mel
 "Nol" the bishop repeated. What does God want of you two men? It doesn't so much matter what want but he wants just what 1 do i'll this case You two men are of infinite value to him. " And then the bishops won derful memory came to lis aid ill an appeal such as no one else on earth among men could make under such cir cumstances He had remembered the mans name in spite of the wonderfully busy years that lay between his coming to the house and the present moment.
 ..Burns, he said, and he yearned over the men with an unspeakable long ing for them both, ''if you and your friend here will go home with me to- night I will find you both places of honorable employment. 1 will believe in you and trust you. You are both comparatively young men. Why should God lose you? It is a great thing to win the love of the great Father. It Is a small thing that I should love you, but if you need to feel again that there is love in the world you will believe me when I say. my brothers, that love you, and in the name of him who was crucified for our sins l cannot bear to see you miss the glory of the human life Comel Be men Make another try for it, God helping you. No one but God and you and myself need ever know anything of this tonight He has forgiven it. The minute you ask him to YOU will find that true. Comel We Il fieht it out together, you two and 1. It, worth fighting for Everlasting life is Ii was the sinner that Christ came to help. I'll do what can fer you . God. give rae the souls of these two menl'
 The bishop broke into a prayer to God that was a continuation of his ap- peal to the men. His pent up feeling had no other outlet. Before he hao prayed pla d many moments Burns was sit ting with his face buried in his hands, sobbing. Where were his mother prayers nows They were adding to the the mower of the bishops. And the other man. harder, less moved, without previous knowledge of the bishop, leaned hack against the fence, stolld at hrst, but as the prayer went on he was moved bv it. What force of the Holy spirit ewenf over his dulled, brutal, eoafsenea fife nothing but the eternal records or inc recording angel can ever disclose, but that amesupernatural presence ehae smote Paul on the road to Damascus and noured through Henry Maxwell