The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-20

centenarian, had grown to be a portlY.
bustlng pompous clergyman with a
smoothly shaver, SNUG face. a butter
milk complexion and long. coarse hair,
Nhiell-had once been black but was
now a brindled gray. lie dressed in
the stereotyped clerical fashion. and il
was a grave question whether he
thought more Of his long-taiIed. double
breasted Prince Albert coat or his
elongated growth Of brindIed hair.
MS ola time excitability in the pull
PIT had become chronic He made a
great show of physical energy. stamp
ing with his feet. pounding fine mint
with his cleuched fists. twisting him
sth into gr0teSque attitudes while he
combed his long hair with his big.
pudgy fingers. His greatest effects
We're produced by telling pathetic. inn
a8lnary stories and shedding enforced
tears, which seldom failed to move the
tender sensloilities Of susceptible Deo-
pie After an hour of such cxertiou.
ne would come down from the pulpit
fairly exhausted and putting for
breath; while the people would go
away remembering nothing except his
luSubrlous stories, but saying one to
another; What a wonderful sermonl
what dear good mani
He had q few set sermons which
he preached in season and out of sea
soma few choice lectures which he
delivered under one name or another
on almost any occasion. s few of
these productions were really master
pieces and gave him great renown I'M
I'll one of the Leading nevSpap ers
caught him mapping and published one
Of his celebrated lectures in deadly
parallels with the same identical lee
ture which the Rev. Augustus Top
lift had copied from a book. read on a
public occasion, and handed. minus
quotation marks to a reporter that it
might be given greater notority
through the press, At the same
time. his lOrdship was drawing a liberal
salary from the missionary funds
which poor men and poorer women
were contributing out of their perjury"
.
As the story proceeds. Toplin grows
extremely envious and Jealous of Arm
by, who is recognized as a strong.
capable and successful man. and who
is also a tall, muscular man with
BROAD shoulders and chest. slender
waist erect form and commanding
presence. His every sermon. the
book says. was a finished temple. When
speaking. his face would glow with a
celestial light and ne would pour forth
such a torrent of persuasive appeal,
pathos and love, that even
the most hardened felt strangely drawn
TO a better life. Contrasting the views
Of the two ministers. the author SAYS
that TOpliff has no more doubt about
the speech of Baalams ass than if
a. had with j,
ana he no more questioned the story
Of Jonah and the whale than if .ie lad
been the whale and had suffered a Sc /
we're attack of stOmach-ache because (
Of having swallowed. unmasticated,
so indigesUble as hard
headed old jew Topld Illuminated. in
season and out Of season, against s'pop-
1lar amusements" The church mem
Der who was seen in theatre was
headed straight for perdition, in his
opinion, and should speedily be cut off I
as branch that is withered.
Toplif resolves to get rid of Armby by /
lair means or foul. Armby. meanwhile.
continues his visits to the BlakesIee
home and is interesting Miss Edna /
Lee, whom he has met as a pleasant
laced little seamstress, in religious af-
airs. She discovers herself. presently.
desperately in love with Armby. but
his affection has already been be
slowed upon Evelyn. TOplif makes /
several efforts to attract the attention
IF Miss Lee, but she grows to despise /
lis presence
EneTe Is no one more Wretched than /
&c who is tortured By a hopeless love" 1
7ries the author. "Armby often met /
Evelyn Biakeslee, but she continued to 4
reat him with such marked reserve !
hat he dared not indulge the hope
hat his love might be returned. Goad- /
d by this torture. he plunged headIong /
nto his work. regardless of the effect I
lpon his health and strength The /
oor, the sick the distressed were
.ouElL oul Is nnNar hafnre En- inLn