The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

The blossom of love was slowly dls- closing its heart to his view, rendering him capable of the feeling of remorse. In his anguish his pentitent cry was;
 Take thy beak from out my heart. and take thy form from off my door,
 The good man had called him brother, the boy was his brother also. He felt himself wretch. Blessed relief was com ing through the medium of penitential tears. which had been pent up for l9 years. He became fully conscious of the beauty of the angelic action and the gen. tie admonitions of the bishop: You have promised me to become an honest man. buy your soul. take it away from the spirit of perversity give 1t to the good God" A great and final struggle had come between his own viciousness and the goodness of the other man. He knew he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; "he must mount higher or sink lower, he must become an angel or a monster.' The frightful shades of hatred crumbed and something warm and indescrbable entered his heart. He was no longer the same man; he was yielding to Gods will as expressed in q personality stronger than his own. He was dazzled by the same light which shone suddenly around about Saul while yet breathing out slaughter against the Lords disciples. Like Saul he WAS chosen vessel to suffer great things for His names sake Not to preach eo- quently but to serve nobly His brotherly love imparted by the bishop was the power which set in motion all the finer Impulses of his present life the flaming torch which illuminel his lonely and mar TOW way He now experienced the su- bar of h,a conviction that he was loved He had reached the epoch of achievement, hence his develop ment into Father Madeline.
 Three short but active years brought about a complete metamorphoss in Jean: he had acquired the habit of industry well directed, and the exaltation of via- tory over bitterness and hatred was the means of sanctifying his life and becom- ing the good Samaritan to all humanity. He had escaped men and returned to God.
 Following the example of all those who have been wise, holy and just, he made his first duty one towards God and hu- nanty. Although he felt the persecution of Javert and although he dreaded the sound of his own name and the appari- tion of his original unregenerate soul, when it was noised about that another md an innocent man under suspicion was tc suffer in the galeys because of strik- ing resemblance to him, the supreme hour Df trial had come.
 His tortured conscience and the instinct of self-preservation then met in fearful combat. The generous thought of re- nunciation was held in abeyance by the vision of freedom and he recpled before herosm. Nervous and frightened. he eX- tinguished the lights and bolted the door, but that presence which he desired to eX- clude would not be dismlssed-his con science. that is to say, God.
 The halo of the bishops influence still encircled his life and repudiating every argument in his favor he saw clearly his duty written In luminous letters: "Go tell your name; denounce yourself" not to remain in Paradise and become an angel, but to return to hell and be devil. Can you conceive of the agony of the un- happy soul in it's struggle Thus he passed the second degree towards regeneration. tho bishop marking the first, Champma- thieu the second. He was now giving out love to others. That which he had received had increased thousand folG. He released Champmathieu by his volun- tary return to prison.