The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-13

 THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN| ......by...... JOSEPH ROCKING Copyright, 1909, by George Il. Doran Company
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Iho Tdln cOnllHueu tO Idil, put ls still trudged on. He had a sort o1 savage delight in feeling the raiI beat against him, in seeing the light ning's flash and hearing the thun der's roar.
 'I was a blind fool" he cried. 'T believed that I hated her, I believed should hate her for ever. Yet at the first touch of her lips or mine, I find myself as weak as 2 child, and still I can't give up my dream of revenge. What playthings we are, after all.''
 A moment later he was blinded first by a flash of lightning, which he thought had struck him, and ther by the rain, which came upon him in a deluge.
 "I can't battle against this," he said; "'it's impossible, yet there's nc shelter anywhere. Through the binding storm he saw a huge rock At least that would shelter hin somewhat, and with difficulty he made his way towards it. From there he could watch the tornado o1 the elements.
 "sIs there a God behind it all,. wonder?" he thought as thunder clap followed thunderclap. and the whole heavens were lit up with streaks of light elf there is, does He care? Yes, there is a God, there must be. I wonder if that woman was right? Did Jesus Christ come to tell us what God was like? Il there any meaning in that story She believes it, and she says that that man Aaron Goudge found peace in it. I wonder, now; wonder. God help me-" he cried presently had passed his lips even before ht knew, and yet, although he knew i rot, it was the natural expression o1 9 soul in torment.
 He laughed aloud. i've beer praying" he said. ''Well, why not wonder now if God cares? Would He hear me if I spoke to Him?'
 The thought struck him as curi ous. He had scarcely ever prayed in his life, but somehow there wa! meaning in it now. Some words came back. to his mind, like the memory of some forgotten dream Are not two sparrows sold for 6 farthing? and yet not one of then falls to the ground without you1 Heavenly Father. Ask. and ye shal receive; seek, and yet shall find knock. and the door shall be opened unto you."
 Who said that? Yes. it was Jesus the Man of Galilee, who claimed tC be the Son of God. Was God Hi. Father? We'll. and why should ht not pray?
 Perhaps it was because of the ex' perience through which he had beer passing, perhaps it was because o1 the storm which swept in mad fur, across the moors, or perhaps it wa: because of a deeper reason which nc man can put into words, but Lei prayed while the lightnings flashed and the thunder rolled
 He uttered no wild, incoheren cries, he scarcely spoke a word; bu I ynd nI In1 h whole of his life seemed to sweeI | before him. Things forgotten | thoughts that were strange, visionl seen only from afar came to him There was something awesome, ma | jestic about 1t all-the storm-tosset | man pouring out his soul to hi Maker, amidst the storm-ren heavens.
 Great God, tell me what to do and I'll do it," he said at length Nt voice came out of the skies, no mes sage came to him from out of tn, angry winds. The storm still swep on in wild fury. How long he knel he knew not, it might have beer hours, but he knew that he had en | tered deep in the heart of things A man who really prays enters into an experience to which the prayer less man is stranger. Wha thoughts passed through his mind
 cannot tell; perhaps he could no have told himself-he only knew tha the foundations of his life had beel broken up. He realized what h. had been, he knew what he was. H | saw life as he had never seen it be \ fore-saw how poor and vain wer the thoughts of man, how great wer the thoughts of God. The grea deeps seemed to be revealed to him less he links himself to the Eterna Heart, the Heart made real by tn Son of God, who lived and died. Tn reasoning of man seemed but tn crying of children; tSs, logic of tn | schoolmen no more than children castles on the sands. There wer great deeps beyond all their theo ries deeps never to be understood b. the mind, but felt by the soul. Go had spoken.
 When he rose to his feet. he als knew that he had risen from tn