The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-01

house work was that my calling-list al
 one time contained the names of about 1 eighteen hundred adults and children
 many of them outsiders" of course | but all of whom I knew by name | Time has wrought such changes since | then that the task of Identification mig ht now be difficult But it was of great value at the period under consid-
 eration.
 Those colt age meetings were wonder full. A faithful band of volunteer work
 CTS kept them up year after year, and in all parts of the parish; sometimes in
 what were known as the long build ings," and at other times in the man.
 sions of the wealthy residents; some
 times attended by but a handful, and
 again crowding the largest parlors; yet
 always interesting and fruitful of good.
 One of the most powerful revivals l
 have ever known began in cottage
 meeting by the river bank. where one
 conscience -smitten sinner found the
 Savior to the joy of her soul. At the
 next meeting her sister came to Christ.
 Thus the work went on from week to
 week, with no extra public meetings,
 but with the regular services crowded
 to overfowing and with almost daily
 conversions. The first to join on the
 profession of her faith was Mrs. Adeha
 A. Black. How well I remember the in
 flexible hard Calvinism of the creed to
 which she was the last to subscribe
 It was far more rigid than is required for membership in any Presbyterian church. Before others were received the form was changed to the mlder creed that has been in use ever since.
 The whole number of accessions as the fruit of that unique revival was eighty-one, mostly at the March and May communions. About two hundred and fifty in all were received by pro- fession during my pastorate here, be- sides seventy or more by certificate. The ages of the converts ranged all the way from childhood to extreme old age; but most of them were in the charming period of young manhood and woman hood
 During the last year of my pastorate we had the expert aid of the noted evangelist, E. P. Hammond; but other wise the ingathering was entirely due to the blessing of God upon the faithful use of the stated means of grace, such as the regular ministry of the word, the instruction given in the Sabbath school, the spiritual impulse of the ordinary prayer and the cottage meet ings.
 The rod of discipline was not forgot ten yet 1t was yielded in l ove. The rule was to hold on to our members as long as we could do them any good, and then part with them kindly. At one time we had forty individuals under this kind of fatherly discipline, most of the offenders being led to repentance.
 One of the best things about those good old days was the fact that the fathers and mothers shared freely in the diversions of the children and youth; a fact that solved the amuse- ment question most happily. l do not believe there was ever a more hospita- ble and delightful set of Christian epeo- pie than those with whom kind Prov dence cast my lot for more than seven years, The fact is that I ought to have stayed here till the present hour and be he one to greet all corners, instead of roaming away to Minneapolis and back 1 to Bridgeport and down east to the | Merrimac.
 'The old familiar places and faces" | How many come before me now. The | places of worship, the homes of friends, | .he spots where we had oul annual pie | 1lcs the drives and walks amid the 1 woods and the meadows, the thickets l where l shot grouse and quail, the | ponds where I caught such trout as are ! never seen now, the sacred places amid ! whose grassy hillocks we laid the dead o sleep their last sleep; these and many other local recollections throng lpon me in this hour of awakened memories, And those dear faces! They are forever photographed in brain md heart When the roll was called amiliar voices responded to familiar names. There the the Hemingways, he Rowes the Mallorys, the Baldwins, he Bradleys, the Harnesses, the Brays he Burwells, the Lindsleys, the