The weekly examiner., 1901-08-03

1 D cmE1 | ''I7la41k ayou, Mr. DuncGis, for telling l me-" she s0id simply
 l swelling tide, and he did not try to repress it. There was something very 1 wonderful to him in the rude, rough simple manner in which these men and women of the common people spoke of 1 sins forgiven and a personal Saviour. It all coincided with his oWn expert 1 ence of only a few days before. It ! was the last thing in the world he had expected to do when he came into tle hall. but now it seemed the most nat ura1 and necessary thing, and, acting | under what he believed to be a leadin g of the divine impulse, he rose, and, with all the people in the audience and on the platform looking at him and in the midst Of silence that was painful, he said, My friends, 1 want to say with these other saved souls that I have also lately felt Gods hand and acknowledge Jesus Christ to be my personal Saviour, and by his help I mean to live as becomes his disciple"
 It was 8 very simple, unaffected statement, entirely free from anything like cant CT parade of ones conver- sion. But it produced a very marked effect upon every one in the hall Rhena Dwight flushed, then paled again, and her lips parted as if she were offering a prayer. The members of the army remained motionless. The old miners who had known him as 8 boy stared at Stuart as if he were an other person, as indeed he was now.
 He was still standing where he had risen, and all eyes were upon him, when through the silence of the room came the sound of a host of marching feet. It was a measured, heavy sound, and instantly every man in the room had risen. Some one near the door shouted into the room: There's been q fight down at De Mottt Theyfs bringing soldiers up herep'
 The next instant every man in the room was struggling for the door. Stuart was near the platform, and it the world that in the confusion that attended the sudden and unceremO. n1ous exit of the audience he should be talking with Rhena Dwight.
 And in the midst of all the noise of overturning chairs and the growing tumult just outade the door of the hall Stuart told her his experience of the morning, when he had for the first time felt the personal touch of the di- vine power and heard the call to his soul, Follow me- as the living and risen Christ had spoken to him. Some how it seemed altogether the most nat ural thing in ehe world that this part of his inner life should become known to this slight, earnest faced figure in the Salvation costume. Rhena clasped her hands together, and her eyes glis- tened with tears.
 Thank you, MT. Duncan, for telling me-" she said simply.
 It all took a few minutes only, and Stuart, after speaking to some of the other members of the army and receiv ing hearty God bless you, sir!' from all of them, started to go out. When half way down the aisle he turned and went hurried1y back and said:
 Miss Dwight, I hope you will not risk your life in the crowd tonight. I don't know what the men are going to do, but you have dared enough already.
 
 miners tonight
 He did not wait to hear her reply She looked surprised, and as he went out he wondered if he had spoken more like commanding than beseeching. But, once out in the street, he was absorbed in the sight that met him in the square which had lately been the scene of so much excitement.
 As the facts grew upon him Stuart asked himself if the events of the strike were about to come to climax with a tragedy that night. During the evening, while he had been at the Vas plaines' and in the Salvation Army hall, the miners at De Mott had come in conflict with the troops, and in the fight. that took place the troops had fired, killing two of Athe men. and wounding| several, others. Before an- other voHey was fired, however, the miners had fairly swarmed over the handful of troops, disarmed them, and after brief but fiery debate they had resolved oa a venseance tfat to the mind of the north men was in keeping with the occasion. They had secured the officers and men, of the two troops and placing them in the ce1&ter of the crowd marched them over the range to Champion, there determined to give them a shsrt trial by the public mob and then shoot the officers. They had marched over to Champion because the twS miners who had been killed had sAyed there. The bodies were brought eyer with the crowd, carried into the