Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-03-31

No one had noted her condition more
carefully than RhcHd.
take part on this occasion. They
marched into the hall early and took
a position on the platform. The Sal
walton Army also proudly beat it's way
up the broad aisle headed by the ma
jor, who, while in doubt as to the eX-
pedency of moving into his new quar-
ters without first breaking some of the
furniture to make things look just
right, had finally consented to try it
as it was, and if it was too good,
Stuart had arranged for the lease of
the old army hal! again.
The doctor had been caught after
long chase up into the hills, and Stuart
had insisted on his being on the plat
form, but could not prevail on him to
offer any remarks.
I'm no speaker. Don't ask me,
Stuart. If any of the audience are
sick or feel bad after you and Eric
and Andrew have talked to 'em, I'll
do my best for 'em; but | would only
perform an operation on their skulls
without using an anRSthetic if | tried
to talk. 1t would be too painful for
us all. I'll agree to yell at any good
points the rest of you make, if / can
see 'em without a microscope"
Andrew spoke briefly on the value Of
the building and it's opportunities for
Christian service, dwelling on the fact
that it was not money that would make
the plan successful, but live Christian
men and women, who put their hearts
into the work that the hall was to
represent.
Eric followed with a very strong
speech. He was coming out of his dis
appointment and bitterness, and was
almost as popular with the men as be-
fore. If he develops ne will be a stron-
ger leader than he once ever thought
of being. He declared his intention Of
still remaining where he was in the
mines. At the close he took advan-
tage of his opportunity to say some
beautiful things of Stuart.
Stuart was the last speaker, and it
was an occasion of lifetime for any
man. He was profoundly moved as
he faced that audience. 1t was the
same audience he had seen at the meet
ings in the square, at the railroad sta
ton, at the park and in the hall at De
Mott, the same rough, stolid, impas-
Sive crowd, with here and there a face
that lighted up at some human touch
as Andrew and Eric had moved it. II
was the same, and yet it was different
To Stuart it spoke of opportunities. He
saw humanity so differently now.
He spoke we'll; very simply and in
manly fashion. Rhena, proud and hap
py, felt that adm iration for this strong
handsome man, her husband, which
always adds to the depth and beauty
of the love Of man and wife. More
than once the tears came as she lis
tened to the way Stuart talked, vOicing
In very plain fashion his great desir,
for the common brotherhood. The mel
listened with the most breathless inter
est. When he finished, there was +;
hearty cheer, which was caught VI
again and again, while Stuart, over
come by his feelings, sat back and GOV
cred his face with his hands.
1t seemed a very natural thing the
for Rhena to ask all to bow their head
during n prayer. 1t seemed to tn
people that nothing could more fitl
close such a day and such an Occasio
than Rhena herself kneeling ther,
with all the Salvation Army kneelin9
as they used to do, around her. SD
had never prayed SO earnestly an
truly for the life abundantly to b
given to them all. Even while Rhen
CT hn, Ir
without knowing all the reason for i
felt that this building was consecrate