The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-04

| dered by a cultivated voice and beau tifully illustrated by pictures, we were I brought to the closing feature of this service, consisting of MT. Carlile's pull pit performances. He was now high up on his throne of power and still he had his trombone with him. Before
 preaching he appealed for collection.
 Last Sunday he found, he said, one
 hundred and nine-two pennies Tn the box and sixty-two half-pennies. He hoped tonight for larger proportion of silver pieces. Still, he said, some could give only button" For himself
 he'd given so much at other services
 that day that his present contribution could be only half crown. Here he
 laid down his trombone, put his hand
 in his pocket, took out the big silver
 piece and in the sight of all laid it upon
 the pulpit desk
 His allusion to buttons might have
 seemed humorous to some, but to his
 own poor flock it must have had a
 pathetic sound One of the notions is
 that many people do not attend church
 because they do not like to let the col
 lection box pass without making de-
 posit in it. These he encourages to put
 in buttons. He himself furnishes the
 buttons; they are given out privately
 by his workers Then, as they are de-
 posted from time to time, helpers of
 the cause redeem them atA sb much
 dozen, the effect being that these poor
 people can feel sure, when they have
 dropped button in the slot, that they have really dropped in something more.
 At St. Mary-at-Hi]l there is a daily service through the week at one o'clock, It consists chiefly of lantern slides and is wound up with free cof- fee hot in winter and iced In summer. This founder of the Church Army knows the bait to use in catching fish, and from the way he presented the col lection when this writer heard him, it is evident he is no novice in the art of talking money out of peoples pockets Divide up with the Lord," he said. and then he told a story. A good-for- nothing, drinking man wanted to be married. The girl was willing, but the parson wasn't. Knowing the mans habits he wanted him to give some pledge of reform, and to this end, re- fused to tie the knot until the man should be able to pay him five shillings spot cash. The man had never been able to get even shilling ahead, all his money went for drink Finally, however, with the prospect of matri mony as an incentive, he did manage to pile up two and sixpence. Wouldn't the minister marry him for that? No, | indeed The man was in despair, and | his final appeal was, Well, parson, | marry me as far as you can for this l half-crown; then I'll begin again to | save, and when another half-crown is reached, I'll come and have the job 1 finished'
 My visit to St. Mary-at-Hill was | shortly after the great International | Congress on Tuberculosis Naturally, a | of Mir Carlile's turn would l take public interest at flood tide and | preach on "The Cure of Consumption" l No sermon could have been truer in its | saving aim, or could have left at the | end a more religious impression. But there were other things in it. A minis | ter who plays on the trombone would | be sure to speak with great plainness. | He began by saying Its dirty thing | to spit on the floor, and an undesirable l thing to spit on the streets, for proba- 1 bly," he said, through the dirty habit | adies have of sweeping the walks with | heir dresses, what you spit out, when t becomes dust, will be caught up into 1 he air, and filled with baccilli will find | It's way into the lungs of some one who 1 S weak and starved, and thus cause | fellow creatures death. If preachers, | le said, would open crusade against l spttting many lives would be saved"
 Here he digressed, for looking around | nto the chancel he saw one of the choir ,oys talking. Take that boy out ake him over there, then see that the ther boys are kept quiet" These were is directions, and then he began to tell if the different ways in which the ba- Hi of consumption might be conveyed rom one to another. It might be done " kissing. "Ah, kissing, let me warn -ou about it. not only in reference to consumption but in other ways, for rhat dreadful thing 1t Is to give a iss. making the one who receives it, eieve in you, and then go and be- ray that person." With remarks like hese did MT Garlic brighten up his ermon, yet the message of the sermon
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