Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-23

! reprpss il T'EPrr was something very
wonderful To him in the rude. rough.
simple manner in which these men and
womrn or -. common people spoke OF
sins forgiven and personal Saviour
1t all coincitled with his own expert
ence of only few days before. II
was the las; thing in the world he had
expected to do when he came into the
hall. hut now il seemed the most nat
j ural and necessary thing. and. acting
! under wtai - believed TO Toe n leading
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. want to say
with these other saved souls that l
have also lately felt Gods hand and
acknowledge Jesus Christ to be my
personal eaviour. and by his help
mean TO live as becomes his disciple"
1t was a very simple. unaffected
statement. entirely free from anything
like cant or parade of ones CONVEX
sion. But il produced a very marked
effect upon every one in the halt
Rhena Dwight flushed, then paled
again, and her lips parted as if she
were offering n prayer. The members
of the army remained motionless. The
old miners who had known him as
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
T1or fl,O Of Of
feet. 1t was measured, heavy
sound. and instantly every man in the
Eoom had risen. Some one near the
door shouted into the room: There's
been a fight down at De Mott! They's
bringing soldiers up herer'
The next instant every man in the
room was struggling for the door.
Stuart was near the platform, and it
seemed like the most natural thing in
the world that in the confusion that
attended the sudden and uncerenS-
NOUS exit of the audience he should
be talking with Rhena Dwight.
And in the midst of all the noise of
overturniEg chairs and the growing
tumult jusS outside 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. "Foliow me-" as the living and
risen Christ had spoken to him. Some
how it seemed altogether the most nat
ural thing in the 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. Mr.. Duncan, for telling |
me-" shCA&2id simply.
1t all took q few minutes only, and |
Stuart. after speaking to some or the |
other members of the army and receiv-
ing hearty 'GOd bless you, sirv' from /
all of them. started to go out. When |
half way dodyn the aisle he turned and |
went hurriedly back and said:
Miss Dwight, | hope you will not |
don't know what the men are going to
do, but you have dared enough already.
1 beg you will not venture among the
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.
Ito BE CONTINUED