The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-10-20


Sundays Characteristic Attitude When
In Repose.
England, Scotland and Wales. did not
60.
ED Williamson, our old shortstop, was
q fellow weighing Is pounds, and q more
active man you never saw. He went with
them, and while they were on the ship
crossing the English channel a storm
arose. The captain thought the ship would
30 down. Then he dropped on his knees
and promised God to be true and God
spoke and the waves were still. They
came back to the United States and Ed
came back to Chicago and started a sa-
loon on Dearborn street
IT would go there giving tickets for the
7. M. c. A. meetings and would talk
with him, and he would cry like a baby.
I would get down and pray for him.
When he died they put him on the table
It was 80 big 1t would not go In q candy
bucket.
led Williamson sat there on the street
corner with me 26 years ago when said
goodbye boys, I'm through.
Frank Flint, our old catcher, who
caught for 10 years, drew $500 year
on an average. He caught before they
had chest protectors and masks and
gloves. He caught barehanded. Every
bone in the ball Of his hand was broken.
You never saw a hand like Frank had.
Every bone in his face was broken and
his nose and cheekbones, and the Shout
der and ribs had all been broken
Tive seen old Frank Flint sleeping on q
table in q stale beer joint and I've turned
rboha inst oyrA "a a.
welcome to It old pail
HE drank on and on, and one day In
winter he staggered out Of q stale beer
Joint and stood on a corner and was
seised with At Of coughing. The blood
streamed out of his nose, his mouth and
his eyes. Down the street came q wom-
an. She took one look and said: MY
God. is 1t you. Frank? and the old love
came back.
'Ehe called two policemen and a cab
and started with him to her boarding
house. They broke all speed regulations
She called five Of the best physicians and
they listened to the beating Of his heart
-one, two, three. four, 1--WE, six, seven.
eight, nine. ten. eleven. twelve, thirteen,
fourteen-and the doctor said: He will be
dead in about four hours She said:
Frank the end In near and he said:
Send for Bin
When I reached his bedside he said to
ma: There's nothing In the life Of years
ago care for now, can hear the grand
stand hiss when strike out I can hear
the bleachers cheer when make q hit
that wins the game; but this In nothine
that can help me out now. and II the
umpire calls me out now, won't you ny
q few words over me Bfur
He struggled an he had years aso ON
the diamond when he tried to reach
home-but the great umpire OF tho ru1-
verse yelled: You're or And the greaA
gladiator Of the diamond was no more.
Frank Flint sat on the strest cornss
drunk with me q years agu In Chacagu.
when I said, TN bid you gpod-bya, boys.
I'm going to Jesus Say, man. DID win
the game OF LIE or did theyf"
OF the sincerity and the perstst0ae
Of the change Of heart which too1I
place at the Pacific Garden Mission IN
Van Buren, street, there has been No
reason to question IN the more than
one-quarter century that has trans
ptIed since then. The event marked
the turning point In the mans career.
Not Immediately did he give up tho
only calling which at the time afforded
him q means Of livelihood. but at once
he began to plan for that change
which other subsequent years OF sacxt-
ice led ultimately to his present pro.
eminence In the evangelical field.
The Pacific Garden Mission, famous
for other notable conversions, among
them that Of Melville Trotter. the
greatest home mission worker In
America. still stands, and the veteran
Harry Monroe is In charge. a. he va
upon that night when there came to
Mr.. Sunday . vision Of the error Of hid
ways, q glimpse into the better life
that lay before, and into his soul thai
steel Of determination which bade him
close the doors on all that had gone
before. to turn his face towards the
promise land and journey thifhea
strong In the faith that his past txanD
Gressions had been forgiven.