Year: 1878




the diocese. Ol course be made two biz
ter enemies Of ihe wreiehes who wanted
TO gamble Il away, but, more than that
tbe rector Vas poor man.


His rcctory was then worth very iitlle
and he vas paid from The missionary
fund for bis services At galloway When
be had saved The money to tbe church
snd bad seen su active little man settle 81
the bin, Of course be bad cut himself ouI
OF bis pay there.


The men OF Flopping knew that II II
bad been TO earn thousand pounds my
minister could not have worked harder
than he did TO rid himself Of that much
needed atty aud very soon the whole
countryside could see there were many
things be cared for more thau money.


Before he came there had hcen a lay
service at Golden Brae, aud while so
busy aboul Galloway my minister never
went to Brae, except TO offer the COM
muniou, returning on horseback over the
utaih ~ fbt eAhAti NbutS W Ait AHuthlhks
Many a sad hour had his little wife had
( watching for bin, 10 deadly fear OF The
FloppIng men; but the rector never
would own that there was any danger for
him, and think now that he was right


There was large and flourishing chap.
Ell at Brse, which would never have hap.
Z q ha hs.1 haa Ia ehA al
For some reason IL had been for long
time without SO mnoh as curate; but
when my minister began TO 20 over IL
regularly he had bis eyes open; and he
soon had a talk with the bishop. No one
knew what was said but there was some
money owing to the last incumbent from
some OF The parish. lie had been bnt a
sickly man, and now lay on bis dealh.bed
not far away. Before long the debts
we're all paid TO the old man, and sub
scfiption was taken up for the relief OF
the family, whom no one liked. One of
the great leaders carried the paper rouud'
but we all knew who had started 1t.


At last there came a day, about mid
summer, when the rector went over 10
the Brse for morning prayers. In the
vestry he was met by one John Thorpe, a
Yorkshire man, who sometimes read the
| service in his absence, loOg, sharp fell
low, wel-to-do aud much thought of Ia
the seiRhborbood, but who. with the help
of the village ale house, led his little wife
a sorry life. Indeed, there were but nine
veslrymea in Golden Brae, never man
of them was sober the whole week
through, aud one of them was the inn
keeper.


John Thorpe stepped TO the rector, and
banded him the notices he was to give
out. Among them the rector found one
TO say that Thorpe would read prayers as
usual, the following Sunday, but he did
not read the paper. Thorpe wondered,
but at the evening service he handed In
another, which also The laid aside. After
prayers Thorpe came TO the rector for a
word.


Thorpe, said the rector, you are one OF
the brightest men in Golden Brae. What
would yon say If the dissenters set Sol
Arms, the town drunkard, IN their pull
pitt You know very well you are not
fit TO read the service, and don't mean
you shall until you change your ways.
Moreover, have called the vestry togeth-
er. have something TO say to them
and expect you to stand by me.


The vestry came together, aud my min
lister asked them all to resign, because, as
be sad, they knew them selves TO be un-
fit for the office; aud the church would
never look up till other men took It,
They yielded without word. When the
news OF all this first got abroad people
thought the rector wonld Gnd trouble on
every hand John Thorpe would surely
be against him; but il was not SO.


The church began to prosper, More
than year passed, aud John Thorpe had
not touched mug Of ale. The sorry
looking wife was new the merriest little
woman 10 be iuund II was none but
Gods truth, John said, when the men
threw lbe rector words in bis face The
last heard the bishop himself was COM
ing to see alef the wonderful change.
have friends At the ae, aud they take 1t
rather hard that we have no minister yet
at Slargaie, aud hfder yet that ! am so
fond ol the rector that | go over 10 the
chapel service now aud theu. Once !
took Il upon me 10 stay over to the even
Ing prayers, aud il did my heart good to
see the Difference those nine men showed
the rector.


You see that anybody might be proud
to call the rector my minister. This Is
the way be has gone on with bis own
people, aud Of course the inssle with
Archie helped bin greatly with the men
at Flopping. lie has such hold of the
countryside as never man had


I II has come about In many ways. One
night when the rector was coming home
/ from Golden Brae, IS weary rs a man
could be, he saw lights fitting back aud
forth over The cove, and when be got TO
the bill he found lbe whole village astir.
! lie did not even put bis horse up, tired a.
I the poor Beast was; but be spurrcd him
down TO lbe waters edge. We have a
I few Irish Catholics al stsrgSle, and "a
troublesome set they were. They bad
come at fret 10 work on y little railway
leading from the coal mines, some thirty
miles sway, thence tolhe cove, where The
coal was shipped. A. they had no church
they we're often idle snd drunk on sun.
day The day speak u, three or four Of
LIE men lad rnRed 10 lhn far sLde OF the