News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-03-20

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"Thank yOu, Mr.. Duncan, for telling
me-" she said simply.
swelling tide, and he did not try to
repress it. There was something very
wonderful to him in the rude, rough,
simple manner in which these men and
women of the common people spoke Of
sins forgiven and a personal Saviour.
1t all conceded with his own expert
ence Of only few days before. 1t
was the last thing in the world he had
expected to do when he came into the
hall, but now it seemed the most nat
ural and necessary thing, and, acting
under what he believed to be 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
have also lately felt Gods hand and
acknowledge Jesus Christ to be my
personal Saviour, and by his help
mean to live as becomes his disciple"
1t was very simple, unaffected
statement, entirely free from anything
like cant Of parade Of ones CONVEX
sion. But it produced a very marked
erect upon every one in the hall.
Rhena Dwight flushed, then paled
again, and her lips parted as if she
were Offering prayer. The members
Of the army remained motiOnless. The
old miners who had known him as q
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 1t was measured, heavy
sound, and instantly every man in the
room 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 herew
lie next iEstant 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 unceremo-
NOUS 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 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, "Follow 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-" she said simply.
1t 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
uull way uOMu luc ulSlC hC lul hCu anu
went hurriedly back and said:
"Miss Dwight, l hope you will not
risk your life in the crowd tonight.
= don't know what the men are going tC
do, but you have dared enough already
l 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 SC
much excitement.
: AS the facts grew upon him Stuart
asked himself if the events of the
strike were about to come to a climax
with a tragedy that night. During the
evening, while he had been at the Vas
PLANES andWin the Salvation Army
hail. the miners at De Mott had come
in conflict with the troops, and in the
: fight that took place the troops hat
{ fired, killing two of the men anC
! wounding several others. Before an
other volley was fired, however, the
miners had fairly swarmed over the
handful of troops, disarmed them, ant
after brief but fiery debate they had
resolved on vengeance that 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 center of the
crowd marched them over the range tC
, Champion, there determined to give
them a short trial by the public moi
. and then shoot the officers. They hat
, marched over to Champion because the
two miners who had been killed haG
lived there. The bodies were brought
: over with the crowd, carried into the
] square and placed at the foot Of the
{ band stand. The captured men and Of
: ficers were massed directly in front Of
the dead bodies. The great crowd Of