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( )ur aim is to show what may be ac- C()nij)l'MK(l, even 1)\ the most obscure and hund e in our chnrelus. once (iod the Holy .Spirit is rico!:;ni/e sonic miscliiff still liir idle li.iiuls to ilo. To master him three thinj^s are neces- sary, " Pra\er to (lod, trust in (lod, and plent\- of hard work." Over a century a^o the Ketterino pco- l)le were torn asunckr hy theological hair-splittino-, aiid the leal heart of dear Andrew iMiller was all hut hrokc-n and his ministry rendered all hut fruitless, until lhe\ hecanie intertslL'd in the sal- vation of the heatlRii world. ^hly our simple unadorned tale lead many ol our Christian xonno peoj)]^ "to expect i^real thinos from (lod, and to at- tempt oreal thinos for (Wxl.'' "Tlu- luck is bent hy the sword, but the heart is hciil hy iJU' heart.'' "Who loved me and oave hiiu.>elf for me." Mav INTKoDrCTloX 9 llic love of Clnist constrain us lo sit\ ici- and to sacrifice- in loyalt\- to liini who is ])()th Lord and Christ. A A. J AMAKV, 1900. ■ ^(AtjSkii^i^^lSi^^m TlIinriiRTrkX ()• BOTANY HAY jhai'Ti<:r I P.oTAW r.AV lliiii^s l),ul l)c;^iin iii.ikf tlifm>el\es strong' hy ill. .1/./, '■,///. ''PHI\ \ciy UKiUion of llio ])1ace is sui;- J_ <;t'slive and Rniiniscciil of odd char- acters and hard experiences in that far- off land to which at one time so nian\ ctdjjrils of all kinds were deported f^r their own and their conntrx's j^ood. The real Hotanx- Hay was Xew S<>nth Wales. Anstralia, Imt our *' Pxitam " was not so far awaw II was llu' nick-nanie of a street in the north central diNtiict of Clas- ;^ow. Tlu' street was shaped like an L, the short line rnnnin*; dne West, and the lon!n •)ne dne Xoith. It was a loni; nar- row street of old tenement liouses. Man\- of them \\(. re tenements of one apai tnunt, II 12 TIIK o'Kk'nKX ( IJOIANV HAY olht'is had two roDins or a room and a kitchc-ti, or wlial llic Scotch term a "hut and a l)cn," to nianv a one tlic hci<«ht of his amhition. Tlie flat ahovc tlic street level \vas reached hy an ontside stone stair\\a\ with a wooden hand-rail, and on the stair-head or landin.i^r there was what is familiarly known as a jawbox, or recep- tacle for slops of all kinds, which fonnd their way to the sewer thronj^h a "rone" or rnn. Jlere and there on the street level were small Imckster ])laces for the sale of bread, milk, vej^etabks, small- wares, fire-kindlin.^, and coals. In I5(.tany Bay snch ])laces were a necessitv as the folk there li\ed from hand to month, and had neither the accommodation nor the means to bnx things in qnantity. Why was it called " P.otanv 15av " ? Uecanse it was a noted localit\ into which poor people from all (inarters had been crowded pell-mell thron.i^h sheer force of circnmstances. It was the last social ditch in their terrible life battle which they could occupy before droppino- into the pau])er's j^nave. r.UTANV P.AV 13 A nuinl)cri)f ihciii, it is (luitc tnic, had iiottcn there entirely through their own fault. vSome were shiftless and thriftless, adrift all the titi.e and moved np and down by the tide i>f outward cirenni- stances. Its denizens were an intcrtst- in<4 stnd)-. A larj^e j)roj)ortion of tlu ni were slaves, the willins^ slaves through inheritance or n])-l)rin_oino, (,f what wt ini<>lit term an all-devonriii;^, irresistible ajipetite for Scotch \\hisk\-. Old Jean Boyd was wont tosav: " It is the onlie bit knmfort I hae in this worl'. A wee draj) ^^{u\l- whi>ky. An anld crea- tnre like me hnz at times need o' it. Ve ken, it saftens the host (coiis^h), and heli)s me to breathe mair freely and naebodv c\er saw me the worse of it." Whisky is the fell enemy of the ,Scot, hi'^h or low, who tampers with it as a bevera,L,a\ or who ^ives to it any kind of a welcome as the friend of j^^eniality and l^ood company. Manx of the Hotany Bay folk were well connected, ])nt felt nnecjnal to their life battle in a more respectable nei<,dil)or- hood, thronj^h inability to pav rent and *e^ ■IPWliW 14 Till-; o'llKTlk.V ()' lioTANV [j.w taxes, and to dress in accordance w ith society's demands. They felt tlienisel es slninted into a sidini^^ on life's onat liij^li- way from the seen to the nnseen. Others were so low down on the hidder of social strnowlcastohave lost lono a^o all hope as to j^ettino- np hi,i,dier and were now satisfied to live and die in " Botanx Bay." The place had its name because all decent people had been led by common report to reo;ard it as a locality crowded with hard cases, n.. canny persons, social danjrcrs. lint we are not aware that it was known to harbor an>- thieves or pros- titntes. Its denizens, so far as known, had not snnk so low as that, thon,rs in its train of trials, — failure to pay rent and taxes, hostility to the col- lector, the bailiff, the constable, and the city missionary of a certain type, — made that street what it was, " P.otany Bay." It was in everybody's mouth that au- thority could not be enforced, debt could not be collected, nor could the oospd of HoTANV I?AV 15 the <;i"ace of (iod l)c preached as in oUui parts of the cit\, without huiniliatiii}; insults and bodily injuries. Whosoever entered there in the interests of either the law or the gospel had to be in pos- session of all his wits, and on the alert for the contents of the jawbox or sonie- thinj^ worse, which can i)nl\- be hinted at, and for a hail-shower of broken delft, attended by the use of words unfit to be seen in print. It was an acquired voCtd)ular\', and somewhat extensive, and as brouj^ht into use j^ave the cold shivers to one unac- customed to such profanity and fdtli ; and yet these people once spoke a pure lan- <>ua<>;e and were clean-hearted and (iod- fearini^s in a manner. ICvil communica- tions had corrupted oood manners, and now they wc c down in the pit of moral filth with the rest. When a man falls he falls low ; but when a woman falls she falls lower still in the scale of morals. It is her nature to do so. Many of those poor people had had and feedin<,^ with the moral swine-herd. To awaken reminiscences of fiunier days was to soften the heart that had ji^rown hard throiifjh moral dulin- qiieiicy, and canse the eyes to fill and the h\^ salt tears to start and tumble over eacli other as they nr de their way in haste down tluir hcj^rimed faces, and then the head would ^o down in shame and the heart sol) out its grief, as we have often heard it : "Oh, my (iod, huz it really come to this? Hae I really forgotten a' ? Huz a' slipp'd awa' frae me, am I an ootcast, and maun I aye remain sae? I belang tae decent clean folk. I hae disgraced my faether's name, and sinnM times oot o' niimher against my auld mither's prayers! I had a gnde godl\- mither and a religious upbringing, and noo I am no worthy o' bein' seen in decent company, and my claes and my habits, which are the waist of it a', maun bnrv me alive wliere I MOTANV 1!.\V 17 sliouM liac nac place ava. Oli, my (lod, I am 110 worthy o' your notice. I am 1100 clean past a' redemption, and tae press my claim upon thee for j)eety or for pa\vrd<»nn, 1)V role, ;m(l main «>f ils biMiilil'iil j)a.s- saj4x> wciv appiitiatid aiias a personal t'ri«.tul and Sa\ ioin, Saxioiir «tl' siniKrs and Kinj^ of saints. One- (tf llitMn stood in tin- same relation to the otiier tliat Andrew did to liis own brother. He made his ae(|naintanec at a reli«;ions meeting;-, and stnek to him like a brother nntil in the end he w 's l)ron<.jht to Jesns. I'or many years lluy were elinnis in e\e!\ |l;oo<1 work, and all thronoh their collej^e eareer. The two lads often had lon<4 walks lo- j^ether, and in their eonrse won hi open the heart to eacli other, and it was soon discovered that their thonj^hts and their plans were alike. Hoth desired to j^row in j^race and in the knowkdi^e of onr Lord and Sa\ ionr Jesns Christ, and to he //Vv, nseftd men. Wlu n the liotany folk were brought to their notice they were at the time actively interested in Chris- tian work, and were doint;; the best tlR\- knew how, in a (piiet, nnobserved way, to reach down to those who were still lower down in the social scale, and who thron<>li 2u Tin- u'krtl-rx o' botanv bay force of circuinstances more than their own ne<,Wect were out of the reach of the saviiij^ message. On a Lord's Day afternoon, tarh in the suninier of 1859, the two huls stood to- •^cther in front of the chnrch door look- in.i,r toward P,otany P.ay. Tlie police- were niakino a raid that afternoon npon its denizens, and shortly fonr of thtin ap- peared carryinties>int; stale of morals in I'otaiu- I?a\- ; but il set the two lads tliinkiiii;-, and it was not in \;iin or for nan<;lit that the old missionary had been strnck down at the post of dnt\'. Vet this in- cident only tended to confirm the public in the opinion that the I>t)tany folk were a wicked, _i;ood-for-nolhin«^ lot, and ouj^ht to 1)^ left to themselves to complete their own wreckaj^e in that dirty hole of a place. The ill nsaj^e of the old servant of (^lod for a lime put a stop to all mission- ary operations there, as such work de- manded both coura_<;e and discretion, and to a larj^e decree sanctified common sense. And gumption, or oood sense, is not one of those thiiii^s for which, as yet, onr col- lej^es ha\e i)ro\ided. It turned out that the wounded mis- sionary did not quite understand human nature. He bejjan work at the wronronounce a jieople's 22 THK O'KKTIKX ()' HOTAXV I5AV (loom instead of (lili\eriii<^ the word of reconciliation, tcllin<; oi:t the love and power of the vSaviour. In all trne, effect- ive evan-elisni, the law's terrors have their place, Imt at that ])articnlar mo- ment in P.otany l?ay they were ont of place, and only exoked resentment and the shower of missiles that nearly ended his career as a street jireacher. Vet the j)o()r man was doin*; the best he knew how, and deserved the ntmost sympathy in his effort to lift his fellows to a hiohc-r moral plane in tlieir life bat- tle. Who knows bnt his very ])]nnders made it easier for those who came after him, attenii)tins; the same work in a more lowly spirit, and by more natural meth- ods. Is it not trne? The most effective lessons in life arc those we receive by stron,i,r contrasts. In ao«.ivssive Chris- tian work, we are too ajjt to bej^in as "sons of llninder" to the belittlenient of "the small, still voice," and the spirit of Him who breaks not the brnised reed and docs not snnff ont the smokin^,^ flax. CHAI'TICR II ()\ ci.ASc.ow (;ki;i;\ poor xms of toil ; oil, >;riul>,'c llu'in not tlu- hrcivi' rii.it pl.ivs with S.ibb.uh lloucr-. ; tlic ( loiids that ])l,iy Willi S,ii)l).ith wiiuls ; tlu' luiin of S.ihh.ith liro ; The S.ihhath walk ; the >kyl.irk's Sahhath lay ; 'I'hc >ilcin Miiisliinc of the Sabbath ilav. ''J'^inC ''(ircvn"' was the pfopU's park j^ and al that tiim.- was iIk- only open space where (ilasi^niw'soxercrow (led jHipn- lation of slru}^<4lin_!^ ])oor coidd meet and freelv hreathe nntainted air. It is a park of about three hnndred acres, and ex- tends from (loal vStpiare at foot of the " vSaltmarket," on the west, to "Aliens- pen" near Rnthert^len I^rid^^e on the southeast ; on the north it is bounded bv (ireendvke vStreet, Monteilh Row, Xew- hall Terrace, and Cireenside vStreet, and on the south by the River Clyde, then a comparati\el\- pure stream. This exlensixe common was laid lic j^^vmnasium, well ])atroni/.ed. All over the Creen, seats in abundance were i)ro- vided for iniblic nse, and there were also sprino^ wc-lls, soin( of which were said to possess medicin. , virtnes, snch as the "Kye Well." Bnt the wells are oone, and the waters of Loch Katrine \ikJ their place, as the pnblic health de- manded it. The (ireen was the yonn<.,r people's re- sort, where they conld roll and tnnible about at will and play oanies of all kinds free from police interference ; ronnders (l)aseball), cricket, football, etc. It was also the favorite resort of political agita- tors, social economists, open-ai- preach- ers, and the ojiponcnts of all religion. vSabbath afternoon and evenin,tr it was dotted with cono-reo-ations of a'u kinds, and these ser\ed as a kind of safety valve to control and temper the destnictive i^i ox C.I.ASC.OW C.RI'.r.N forces of the all l)iU iiKKhkiied, toilitit;-, stn^,i^■_^■linlL,^ slarviiiiL;' thonsaiids, and ttiis of tliousaiuls of that j^reat eity. ( )ut in the fresh air they had clhow room, the rijuht of i)nl)lie meeting- to vent their j^nic'vanees, proponnd their theories of redress, and proclaim a social and politi- cal millenninm, and then they returned home in some measnre unloaded of the sense of their terrible wroni^s, to fall into line once more to o;o thronj^h the drnd<:^- ery, the awful drudgery, of their hum- drum daily life. " In the da\s of childhood," sa\s Jack, "the Circen was a delightful place to go to, specially the ' Laigh (ireen ' with its abundance of gowans (daisies), dande- lions, groundsel, and goldenrod. It was the bairns' paradise, and yet in the gloam- ing it was their dread, because of its ' Will o' the wisp' and the peat ])(>g into which it wa to lead them. On the riwr l)aidv .e numer ■ , wells, and choice bathing sjm>1s, which in summer and fall, earl\- and late, were crowded with bathers. It was a great health re- sort and prized In- thousands of the 2() TlIK o'l-kTlKX ()' HOTANV I5AV ]a])()iiiio |)()()r, for iIric llicy could not only air llunistlvcs and tla-ir j^riivanccs, but the women folk could brin;/ with them the we;k's wash, and there bleach and dry the clothes, and ha\e a day's ontins^- as well as labor. The (rrcen was and is still a great boon to the people/' ON i;i,Asc.()\v (iki:i:N All over the world to-da\ ihtiv are tens of lliousaiuls of (ilasj^^ow's eliildreii who eaii yet he moved to tears hy the very mention of it, as it reealls the (la\s of happy childhood in the (ireen, and on the banks of the honny Cl\(le. Jack lM)Nier sa\s he remend)ers man\- .threat meetint^s in the (ireen, hnt the ,t;reatest of all was the one addressed hy I'erj^ns O'Connor, which was held near Xelson's monnnient, and at which it is said there were at least one luindred thonsand people. The whole city was ''or fctrr The different trades, and trades-unions were ont in force with brass and fife bands, banners, and ile- vices of all kinds. The police and mili- tary were on the alert to suppress riot. At one of those j^^reat meetings of the nnemployed. Chartists, a deputation was appointed to wait npon the anthorilies to demand work or bread; but when re- ceived they had what was termed scurvy treatment, and it was then decided that the time had come for cpiiet endnrance to end, and for them to seek forcible re- dress. Kver\ body should now help him- ^1 'J 28 Till'; o'KkTrKN ()' noTANV I'.AV self to wliatcvcr he could <;et, as there was eiioujrh and to s])aie for all. The oranaries were full, st> were the stores and the bakeries, and thousands were droppino into the ditch thronj^di sheer starvation, as there was no work, and bread was at famine j)rices. The ontrotne was the (;ias<,row riot, one of the saddest events in the history of Scot- land's jrreat commercial metropolis, and niio;ht be termed its darkest i)eriod. Martial law was proclaimed, and every- where could be heard the tramp of armed men. Many valuable lives were sacri- ficed to obtain the amelioration of social conditit)ns. On the Lord's Day morn, from four to nine o'clock, the poorest of the poor were out by the thousands on the Green to ^^et a breath of (;od's free fresh air and a drink of the best of water at Aaron's well. This early hour was their outing, the snnninor and sunny time of their hard life, when t^iey could breathe in another world, gain an inklino- of its beauties, birds, trees, flowers, river, and dale, and in the distance " Cathkin's ox (■.I..\S(;u\V C.KIJCN 2y boiniy hracs," The (iiveii was ati out- let from the hill of life into the hlessed j)iirity and liberty of natuie. These poor people were nowhere in si<'M11^ iVii'iuls How lnotij^lit to oiii" Holier had, alUi iiiiuh llioiis-lit and (.ariu>l |)ia\tr, iikkK- a i-o\iiiaiit to he loyal to Christ and i ach ollui- in a j^ospcl criisadc ol' a niodrst ihaiaiii i on (ilas^ow (itviii. Their In.ait> went out in compassion for its ninllilncks who on the carl\- nioriiinj^ of tlu- Lord's Day availed ihenisehes of an outini; in the "caller " (fresh) air. It was indeed a modest \entnre, anti a more darim^ one ne\er entered their youno heads, an early morning; service at the " roon " seat, Kinj^'s Park, on the hii^li jjround overlookinj"- Mesher's Ilautrh, a noted c< truer. vSilas hy mutual aoreenient was the leader of the psalnio(1\ , jack at the out- set readi r and ])reacher, and afterward it was taken in turn, so tlure was a divi- sion of 1 Sor. It was an effort which love prompted in behalf of an r.tterlv ne«,-lected class, made out of siuht of those who kne\. them and who would he likely to criticize it. The audience from the very outset was made up of hundreds of poor creatures 32 THK ()'i:kTIK.\ u' IIOTAW I'.AV htiM-vrin^^r ; ,r a kindly wctd and a hioth- crly ivcooniiion, in tluir la-s and want. Poor ptopli-, many of llicin had slrpt ont all niolit in ih^ (,j,t.,i air; others had stolen out from tluir dark, close-, fetid dens, to obtain a hrcath of ('.od's j^ood "caller "air, a hlink of the- snn, and to hear the- wee hirdie-s sin,o; i,, the stillness of his holy vSahhath morn. The si^ht of these early stn.llers wns one nexer to he forj-otten. Ii was a rev- elation (.f the privations that some have to snffe-r in life to the enrichment and comfort of others. The me.- ijre which the laddies carried to these waifs of society was, as Jack puts it, -The story o' a faither's I'ove, and a vSavionr's hritherly sympathy and self-sacrifice upon Calvary's rude beam of torture, made red wi' liis ain life's bluid, to atone for and to jmt awa' a' your sins, and to win you for (lod, and frae the evil to the ^xnlc. He is the freen o' every one o' you, loves you, and died on the cross for you all." " It was always a talk, and never a ser- mon. Such a thin<,r uas out of our •I ()\ (.i,AS(i()\v (;ki:i.;.\ i3 llioii^'hts, mid tlif only aiwiniUMit iistd In- us was that of txiKiitiux-, and in its ns(.' we liad hluid tamest mss, l)(.lii\ in^ in a livin,t,^ l()\in<4, alniij^Iiix Christ, as an ahidinj^- i)ivstiKx." Wlien thcv faced that crowd of lnin that the dullest and nu)st illiterate of that niotlev throujr could understand. It was a Ixdd venture, but they were oblivions of anv risk. Their love to Jesus blinded tluiu to all else but the salvation :.f that cr')wd of men and women so far away from Cod and rioht livino. They did not cast their ill deeds in their teeth, but did all that could be done to lead them to see the love of (;od in a vSaviour who is love itself. If the weather was fine and the morn-- iu<; warm and -vnial, you mioht find at the "round seat" as uiany as from six hundred to one thousan»l jK-rsons, some- times uiore. oathered to hear the laddies sinor and tell the j^ospel messaoe. They c 34 '''HI-: o'KKTrkX ()' HOTANV IJAV had iiothino- to qixe away ])ul love, and tluy had h)ve in rc-ttn-n, and many a "(iod bless you, laddies. Yon hae dune us s^ude, and it's real kind o' you to think ()' us, and come tae help us at this eavlv hour o' the da\-. God Almichty wnll re- ward you, his ain l)airns. It's like liini- self tae dae this kin' o' wark and a' for uaethino;." They said the very pleasure of doino it was more than money or money's worth, and the love and appre- ciation ex]>resse(l in the fac'\s of l)oth old and younj^- was reward enou<;li for any self-denial on their jiart. (k) to the forei_L;n. field l)y all means ; its need is oreat and the laborers but few compared with its millions ; but first take a look at your doorstep. See that von are not steppin|L!^ o\er some poor creature on the very brink of perdition, who mi«^ht be .saved b\- a sympathetic look and a word fitly sjioken. vStoop down as Jesus did. '' He Innnbled himself." Jack's oranuie, speaking of the romance of mis- sions, was wont to sav : " P'ar-awav birds hae bonny feathers." The man who has the pluck and the tact to do mission ox (ii.Asc.ow (;ri;i:\ 35 ucjik at home is the kind of niaii iKcdcd abroad. The hoy preachers were loved hy these poor, iie.i,rlecte(l folk, because the\ hroiiolit themselves down to their level, ii.siii-4 the laii.i^tiaoe of every da\ and the simple.st of illustrations to riw t the truths of the .i^osjK'l upon the heart and the conscience. In the earnestness of si)eakin,o the\- were not afraid to \iolate rules of urammar and correct st\ le. Until the season was well advanced (iod continued to prosper the Creen ineetinos ; then provision had to l)e made tor a service within doors. Jack obtained from his tutor the use of the borouoh scIu>ol on the conditi<)n that he would heat it and keep it clean. It was aoreed. " It was no easy task," said Jack, " to tackle all this of a Lord's Day morniu, I'm". <>'i;u'irKN o' isotanv uav (.Tils." T1k-\' had to I)f caic'-takc-r and ])ivacdn.r by turns and wi-ix- nol ashamed ol' it. It was joyons scrxicc. (iod t;aw ihcin Ur- l)c'()[)k-, the Ilnly vSpirit did his own work in their hearts, and (inilr a number were- brought into the kingdom. .Sonu- of those people eame lon^ distanct-- to listen to the boy ])r(.aelKrs. 'iMic Loi'd's I)a\- was a day of sc-rviees: (.arly niorniut; meeting; in the boroiif^h school ; I'hurch pra\cr UKelinj^- at ten o'clock ; church ser\ ice at eleven and at two ; school at fue. The (ireeii meetint^s recall an extraor- dinary- season of religions awakcuinj^ and rich siMritnal l)lessin<4-. Hundreds Wire led to seek an interest in Christ, and the heroes of our story had no more useful days than those spent in the in- terests of the lunnble poor who fre- (pientcd ti.j (ireen. 4 cii.\pti:r III JACK i()S'n;us dark days Man' s iiihum.initv tn m.ni M.ikfs ((nintk-~^ tIi'iii'-,m(l-> luiuirn. SOMI*: of those poor folk said: ''Jack I'ostc T is nar ctiif, hut a lad o' Sfii^e, and will yd be a useful man." 'i'liis lo him was more than an\ other i^rsou's apjirobation. Me was hinrsrlf a child of I'roxidence and kut'W his I""athei's care, and could read these poor folk liki' a hook, as lie had had much of their own hard ix- j)cricnce of life and its storm and stress. He had stood alone for \ears. (lod in Christ was the only near and ^ood friend he had. Xo other yoinii^ man of his acquaintance and at his time of life had a like experience. It had been painful, hut it was priceless and of or^at ser\ice in a mission to help others. He was the son of a nou commissione<1 ofificer in the Royal Scots, who died w hen 3^ 'nil'; o'l'.kTrkN" o' hotanv hav Ik- was hut in liis tliird year. lie had hut a (Hill shadowy iiRiiioiy of his falhti. He iviiKinhtixd hciiit; set up on a lii,L;h cliair to he shorn of liis j^oldeu rin<;]ets, and his inotlier's tearful protest. Poor woiiian, she afterward had her own moth- er as well as her fatht-rless b'-\- to su]v port ; but as ioiii^ as grannie lived things ]>rosi)ered and home comforts were plen- tiful. r>ut orannie died, looking to Jesus. Then there came the potato failure and the relapsino fever ; money *»rew scarce and work was difficult to obtain. Struiiced food, fell disease. Corn Laws aoitation. Chartist movement, rad- ical jKditics, Repeal of the Union, revo- lutionary movements on the continent of luirope, and to crown all, the Smith. O'Hrien rebellion in Ireland. Some say JACK l-(»STi:k"S DAUK DANS 7,i) the Irish have been acliii!^- and lalkini; rebellion e\er since. As then ><> is it now, Home Rnle sininieted down is Rome rule, and the Roman hierarclu is re- sponsible for ninch ot" the agitation and its attendant misehief. vSnch at least was the opinion ol Jian Doddridge, who was heard to say : -' It's no a very Chrisllike bit o' business, bnt it is a wa\' o' haudin' the people toi^ether, and of keei)in<4 them in the bosom o' the chnrch. Tae alloo them to see the bless- in,L,^s that come to a Bible readin' na/liun, so as to lumker efter them, wonld bt to lose them a' together. The priests are lan^-heided chiels, and believe in Drae- tical politics, and ordinar' Christian folk are nae match for them. When ve think ye liae them they are like the lu'rish- nian's flea, ye put ye'r linger on it and it's no there." If tliey are to be ke])t "(xxl Ronumists it is (piile evident they must be kept cpiite .separate in education and customs, and also cncourajred to hate the heretieal vSa.xon, the old-time enemy of liis - )li- ness the pope. At the period now under 40 TIIK o'KRTrRX o' BOTANY HAV consideration, the pope was on short ra- tions and was phu in;^ a mean, cowardly l)art. vSo thon«4ht Jean DocUhidj^c, and not only did she think it bnt she said it. " He hnz jnst sneaked oot o' Rome in winian's claes. He won'dnc- meet like a man the faes o' priestly superstition and oppression and j)olitical misrnle. It wnzna Protestants that sv\ared him ont o' his wits, bnt his ain hairns tan,L;ht by the friars and the onde >isters. He h\v/. had to rin awa' frae the seat o' nniversal an- thoritv tae tak' shelter nnder the wine- o' ain o' the Bourbons. And just think o' it, he /v the man wha claims the power to turn the wafer into the body and l)lood, the soul and divinity o' onr Lord Jesns Christ, and wha can bind and unloose the souls o' men in either world. He micht hae turned a' his enemies into froj>:s tae feed the iM-ench, his ardent ad- mirers and staun' byes in a' his extremi- ties." Jean Doddridj^c was a woman amoufrst many. She knew 1)oth the Bible and the newspaper. vShe kept informed and was re<;arded by her neighbors as an au- :*;:.'.vi«.'^ JACK l-OSTl'.U'S PARK DAYS ■M th(>vil\', a woman of sense anlace one of her hands njion th.e laddie's head, and would raise the other to the threat rnsccii I'einjr, and with uj)turned face and heart, and voice lifted heavi nward, i^^;^ .X:-^-^. 42 Till- o'KkTrkX ()' HOTAW BAY she would coinnR'iul tlic wee fatlRrk-ss boy to the only Father he now had, the hcavcnl) ( )ik'. It was an awesome place to Jackie, yet it was (rood to he with g^rannie in the hack-shop speaking to the unseen (iood Mail. The battle of her old heart with (;od was about the laddie's future. vShe seemed to have some stran<;e presenti- ment that his life-i)ath would be intricate, ru<,ro;ed, and thorny, too much for mere flesh and blood to o'erniaster. Her praver was that he niioht have no less com- panionship in life than that of the Lord Jesus himself, and with that he would have o^ood company ali his days, and in the world to come life everlastino-. She seemed to sec in her wee boy latent powers of much evil or of crreat j,nx)d, and the si|L,dit of life's possibilities would make the old saint trend)le all over. Her perceptions were aided bv the family physician's opinion, a he had the credit of beiujL,'- able to read ' uls. When Jackie was but a wee toddler iie would go to visit the doctor, who would set JACK F<)STI:R S DARK DAYS 43 liitn upon llic cH)niitcr of his apotliccai y, and llicii tell him all abont his head, and say a short prayer lor the " wee niannie" who had not a father. Jaekie never left Dr. Lander's without a bit of plaited rock candy, or a handfnl of rosebuds, which were the favorite sweetmeats then. (irannie ponred ont her heart to (lod in stron<>^ desire for a blessin<; on the wee boy and his fntnre when her old head was laid in the <4ra\e. When she so ])rayetl for him, he fell a strange myste- rions influence pcrvadinj^ the back-shop. There was One there to wliom she conld talk, whom she coidd see as she tnriied her face to the ceilinj^ and ponred ont her heart before him. Jackie was made to feel that (iod was a real jierson who loved fatherless boys and look an interest in them, and wonld lake care of him. Over-awed, chastened, spiritnali/.ed, he wonld rise from his knees to look abont the room for Ood, bnt j^rannie herself was his dwelling-place. She "walked with Ood " all the day lonr sale that would earn a penny to niec^ her ohlioations. It was a sore battle she had with the world to obtain means cnoiioh to live honestly, oivino each his own, but she was not treated with like iK'iKsty. In the midst of this desperate struoole to i)ro\ide for herself and her fatherless wee boy she had to lay down her poor, wear\-, worn-out body on a sick- lied, and died of a rapid decline. 'Po her sick boy she had not a word to say at the last, but at the dead of the nioht she stole away to be with Jesus. On that wintry nioht, between nioht and morii- in.tr, •'^lie lay beside her boy, stifT, cold, and silent in death. JACK lOSTl-.kS DAKK hWS 15 The laddii- was 1 lid down with w- hipsin.i; tVwr, then an i]iidciiiii\ I K- alit-ady had had i Itwii itlapsLS and was inakiiij^ a hravc fij^hl to Ii\i-. It was near U> Christmas. In that iKuisvi-t' tin- (kad thf l.Mhlic was ahuK-. IK' liad no one- now in the- world hntCiod hinistlt', and lie ninsl jtisl await ( '.od's tinic tostc what he wonld do lor him. Thrmij^hhors, Prolistant and Catholic, WLiv kind to him in their own w.i\ and for Katic-'s sake, for to many of thcin she had been a friend in the dark honr of their extremity, and thereby had made- herself poor. Ahont the v;ra\- <-f the- nK)rnin,i; it j^ot whispered aronnd that the "factor" wonld se-ll all for rent and taxes, and that the sick hov woidd not ^^et anything;- ofter the fnneral exjunses had been provided ; and so thev reasone-d that it woidd be no sin if they fell to and helped themsil\e-s to anything for which they had a likino-. U was all for Katie's sake. vShe was bnried l.'eside- her own mother in Hridoetown Kirk yard, becansc in the Hioh Kirk yard where- her father la\, the }f> I III', o'lUTlUN <)' IKCIAXV n.w aiitlioriliis would iillou no nioiv hiirials to lake place. The fiiiKial took i)lacv on a raw IKcvmiIrt dax. It was plain, l)iil (Krint, and laiofly atleiided hy the iiiii^hlx.is. The cofliii, will) a iiiort-cloth <>\ir it, was home upon spokes, and de- cent men to(.k these in tnrn. The rela- tions were n..t there, as there was no one to inform them of what had taken place. The sick hoy cotdd not do it ; hcsides, nearly all were afraid of the awfnl fever then ra.i^inu in tin- district. The wee hoy hy a tremendous effort of will power, rose from a fever hed to lay his mother's head in the cold clay; for it is aoood vScottish cnsloni that the nearest of kin should hav< the chief place at thec^rnive in the lowenno r)f the coffin. It is said that as he stood at the head of the oravc as chief monrner, he looked a tri,<>ht, weak and sta.<;^,a.rin_l,^ poorly nourished thron«,di his lon,<^ illness, a face perfecth- hloodless and hlne, and to crown all he was shabbily and thinlv clad. In the fillino; in of the j^rave the bystanders wonld look at him with tear-filled e\es and conld be heard sa\ lii<. : I JACK F0STi;k\s l.AKK li.WS .| ; " K.llit's Wcf 1)(.\ (K'MlAfd hittvl til. Ill lliiN ; ("...(l Iul|. tin- piiii l.uldir, \\c has lost his a' ! " It \\.t> a >a.l sali>|'a(.ti(.ii (o lay his iuoIIki- l.vsidt- ^raniiii-. ik\ t,, he t'or^M)U(.ii. Oil ivliiiiiiii- Ik.h. ■-• hiirviiio' irrouml he saiiutitvd .iloiio ahiiu-, with lii> head full of slraiiiic noises ami his heart sad and sole. 11 is sitnalion was iiieoiiipieliensihle. He soon found hiinseh at his own door, but it was lii> no loiio;er. The place was eiiii)ty and the door was locked. He sat down on lliecold stone step of tile store door, and in wrestliiio with the slorin within his own i)t)Soiii, he hail to sel his teeth to restrain his emotions. Poor laddie, well nii.olu .grannie wrestle ninch with Cod in vonr behalf. The house factor had been on thr premises and ever\thin■ one, for Iiis heart w, Hirst. It l.M.ked to 1 iini as It there was no other w<.rM than that to which all his kin had t which he had sun.,, so often in tlie Snndav-scho,.l, and about which on,nnie had often read to hini from John'sV.ospel and the .\pocalvpse. He has often said : " It wnx the onlie time in a' u\\ event- l"u' life, and amid a' its hard experiences <>' the world, that I had such a wi>h, and (iod wuz .<,nule tae me in leavino it un- ,i,^ranted. If he ha- for after life, as his bene- factor made an earnest effort to make him a i^ood Romanist. From his ninth to his twentieth year, he had souh' stranoe experiences and hard, sore battles to fi 'lUMii^iim-m^. CHAPTKR IV KAKI.V COMPANIONS There is no merit in secinj,^ the sunlij^lit ;it noon- day. We cannot iloiiht the existeiK e of ii,i;ht wlun it blazes in our eyes. And when tiie -i )oin and chill are about us, have faitii to beheve tli.it there is just as nuich h<,'lit in tiie universe as ever, and that Cod will i)rin',r us a<,rain into its cheer. If uc have faith, we sh.dl have hope wher sorrow is in our hearts and tears are in our eyes. He doeth all thinj^s well ; We say it now with (ears, Hut we shall sinj;- it with those \vc love riirou<,di brij^ht eternal years. IN reconntino- Daddy .Mnrtaoli'.s Imniane attentions, it .sliould he .said that he did liis very l)cst to win Jack io the Roman Catholic faith by takino- him to early nia.s.s, and by indncino- him to i^o to catechi.sm on Snnday afternoon.s. p,ut the whole thinor (h'd not conmicnd it.sdf to Jack's rea.son, and the condnct of wor- shipers and pupils after .services .sccnK-d a 51 '(I P T^ 52 THK ()'i;RTrK.\ O' IJOTAXV BAY straiijuc on Iconic to all their prayers and pcrscvcrin,!^ ccjnmiittal of the catechism. Their vespers contrasted stranj^ely with the Protestant vSnnday-school. Theirs were prayers and catechism, no Bible readinii;^ or explanation, no sino;in- his sold. A strange consistencx ! All the prayers, the hohhino- np and down in chnrch and crossing of ihoni- sclves, he conld not reconcile with their conduct on retirino- from chnrch service. Their free nse of the name of Cod and of Christ made him shiver, and their fdthy conversation vexed his sonl. He had listened to Daddy Mnrta,nh at his prayers, and his prayers were many and occupied time, for he was a mend)er of the Holy Family and had the promise of an indulgence for so many prayers, and so he sonoht to buy n, his oi)i)()rtu- nities. Jack had known him. while on his knees, to leave off praying to con- si,Hn everybodv in the room to the warm- est place in the other world for disturb- iujr hi,,, i„ i,is devotions, and wh.en he had relieved his mind he would .set out ^i 1 I 54 THE o'HRTrRX cV HOTAW RAV aj^ain to c;oinos on made it purgatory to all in the house. Jaek was not proselytized, but made some proselytes. Grannie's teaching stood him well in the circumstances, for had he known less he might have been a poor deluded Ro- manist, instead of an intelli- gent Christian worker. Tack had nice chums bv the name of Rodgers, who were Roman Catholics and who much against their own in- clination had to go to cate- chism and mix with a dirty, uncultured crowd from the Briggate and the vSalt Mar- ket. It was arranged that he would j'o with them to their catechism, if they would go with him to vSunday-school. It was a bargain. He made no attempt to argue with them, and was careful not to wound their KARI.V COMPANIONS v-^:) feelings, but just allowed the teaching hy contrast to do its own work in tlain, and it did. Tlicy very soon saw the dilYer- cjice between Rome and the k^'^P<-J> »"t only in the workino^ of the school, but in the instruction J4iven to the pupils in at- tendance. Jamie, Dick, and Hu.!4hie broke with the Church of Ronie, disytisted with her teachinosand pa^^an practices and j)riest- ly tyranny, so also did three of Daddy Murtaoh's children. The two dau<;hters were bapti/.ed on a profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The defection sorely distressed their poor father, and made him rave and swear and threaten all manner of thinos, present and to come. Father vSniall and the Little vSisters of the Poor did all they could, b\- bribes of all kinds, to win them back to the bosom of the Church, but to no a\ail ; the fet- ters were broken. Dadvly Murtaj^h never lost his interest in Jack Foster, but watched his after life with pride, and showed a most kindly spirit, e\cu while he was actively en- <,^a<>ed in Christian work. m\ i ^ 56 THK O'KRTLKN O' BOTAXV BAV III after >ear.s he clianjrc-d xcry iinicli for the better, was more Christian in spirit, and no donht hecanie a spiritnal man, and thoii^h he died in the bosom of tlie Chnrch, he died lookinj; nnto Jesus in simple trnst. Me lived to see Jack a minister of the J^ospel, and he was a proud man, i)roiuI ot the orphan boy lie had sheltered, who liad shared his table and picked up his trade by usino- his eyes. This insioht into Romanism Jack found to be of oreat use in his mission work. It was a valuable trainiu«,r, the testino of his pnncii)les, and his oroundin-.^ in the cros- pel. Silas Stirlino- at ihe outset was the better educated lad, inasmuch as he had Ins parents, a -ood home, and vcars of schoolincr i„ one of the best schools in tlie city. His father was what (;ias aide to attend evenin- classes, h, ,,ih,r respects lie was furnislKd for life's bat- tle in a way that Silas never cc.nld he. Vouno^as he was, he was intimate with a cold, hard world. IK- knew i)y hitter ex- perience all its ins and v)nts,"and there were hut few of its many nooks nnknt.wn to him. He was the lonoer-headed of the two, and was jrcnerally re-arded as "a modest, quiet, ol)li,ni- men could be more bound up in each other. They had each other's conri.k-nce, no secrets, and took no step without con- sultation. The elder and better educated of the- 5^ THK O'l-RTIRN ()' HoTANV HAV two liad a tcrrihlf stnio^ok- to keep his mind clean and to si)eak a pnre lanoiia<>e. In early boyhood he had formed the vile hahil of profane swearino;, a habit which is to-day too common, and to him it had become a second natnre. The tendency to jrive way to it after his conversion was a sore trial, and often in tears he would say to his ehnni : " Man Jack, my heart is sair. I hae catcird niyseP twa or three times the da>- in the very act o' swearin', bnt the words didna ^vt cot tae be heard. I jist in the nick o' time j^ripp'd them atween my teeth and held them there like a terrier wi' a rat. Dae ye think Clod wnll hand me c,r,iilty o' takin' his name in vain ? I didna mean it." Silas Stirlino^ had that of which there is a lack to-day, " the fear of C.oi] and a sense of sin." It was a strno-le to de- liver himself from the s^iant jiower of an evil habit, even after he had jrjven him- self np to Christ, bnt in the end orace triumphed and he glorified Jesns in the temple of his body. It wonld take too mncli time to de- '»"*» ^m^]a^ KAKI.V COMI'.WKiNs 59 scribe Jack's onward and upward stniu- ^dc from his ninth to his twentieth year; snfrice it to say that it was a tonu],, sore fij^iit : hut with Cod's aid he hehl his own a-4ainst all odds, and as the years ^athvivd he kept ^ainino; j^Mound and still saw sonicthinj; yet ahead in the way of self- improvement. In a qniet corner of the workshop in spare moments he mioht he fonnd ulane- iti.i^r over the rndinients of Latin or Creek preparatory to a c<)lleo;<.' course. In this laudable pnrsnit he had no encourage- ment from his shop-males, but the i.pp..- site. Kverythinjr possible was done to hinder him, and to keep him like them- selves. His and)itii,;; cost him much jK'tty persecution, and nothino was left untried to make his life aniono them miserable, and also his employer an cncm\-. He wrs reliirious and they were uot. He was a total abstainer, the>- were drinkers; and so they stood far apart. Throii-h tlood.-, and tl.imcs. if Jc•slI^, lead, 1"11 follow where he j,'oes ; I finder me nm, shall he inv ( ry. 'rhon<;li earth and hell oppose. att--jm£j,Mi H I This \v;i.s ii !n 111! .in-., x^i^m Jack Foster was i ,i;t Uv '• i,tnic,l ^vill, Christ hv hapt 111 int.. ([.■.,t], •• ]„ pastor John Welchiiuiii. J I ,\ ,, ,1,,,^ i,va hir-v .'•11(1 ilteply iiiliTfstid coiioi.MalK.n, and ^a\c thf kc-ynoir to jack'- iftcr litV. It rano^ in his tars on the- Crcc-n. it was in iiiind whc u he resolved in the name and power of Jesns to enter and take Hotjiiy I!ay. It inspired him as he stood U}) ..ii the ontside stone stairnay. which c^n .• the soldier s])irit, orcat will power, am. tcn- -cessa t for i , w ,ik which God had allotted to him in fe. %^ CirxI'TlCK \ 11. IN' ASK) K I; ANY li.w Sill ,i li\ Jl-MI>' Mniitl. i.Ct iJS ' "^^ '■ ^u^li lo (idd ; .\i my 1 "|"1' l>liii(ll\ str.iv, • It)'. VI ! "!' l>. Kt 11-, |n,iy, i\ th ulii) iKiu .lie Mind, S()4)ll '1 'itli in. IV fiiul. 'PHK nu 1 inaiUiii ini!'^|i ^ "II ic Civtii, ill tln> 11 \ were . hjo stifci-s.s, and li H^ T If I 62 TIIH o'KRTrKX ()' nOTAW 15.\V Jac-k iK-oaii to fLur that he had heard sonic- evil rei)<>rt which woidd be made the suhjeet of inquiry by tlie deacons, as there was very strict discipline. " I am told," said he, " that you have set up as preach- ers, and are doinj^ Jack unassured as to whether the efTort put forth on the (Ireeu met with his ai)i)roval. The i)astor at once noticed that the efTect was other than he had intended, and so he said : " I am not ^o- ino to scold you or find fault with von, but you mioht have taken counsel with me before setting out. I assure vou I '^^^^^^- THK I.WASION OF HOTANV MAY 6; lui\c no ilcsirc to hiiuk-r you in (loiuj^ :^oii, who knows? to lead them to the Saviour. I'romise mc now that xou will make the cfTort and at once." They had witnessed the (dd mission- ary carried out hy four stalwart police- men, wounded and !L;ory, his onlv offense zeal for (iod and the sinner's salvation. Jack was slow to own that he had ever preached on the (irecu or had e\eii tried to do it. " We have huinnied two or three lixnius. eiii^aoed in prayer, read a hit of Scripture, and done a little lalkiiiin about the vSaviour as the sinner's friend, but it cannot be by aii\ manner i)f nieaiis rej^arded as preach i no."' Holh promised that they would think over the minister's jiroposal, seek from (iod oiace and i;uidauce, anay in the name of the Lord Josiis. They (lid not iclincjni.sh theC.recn but added I'.otany Hay to the i>rojrraninic. vSilasand jack entered npon the campaij^n slron.n^ly moved hy the sentiment of love for sonls. The effort to l)e made had led them to serious thought and mueh prayer, as the\ felt how unecpial thev were to the work. It could not he done in their o\.vn. strength, and it needed more than human wisdom. lint havino- sou1- lUt'lANv I;aV h:^ and Ik- williiii an (.msx disLiiKx- tvadv to ivsjM.iid t,, tlu- fii>l rail; hm tluv were iu-\cr oiK-c U'(|iiiR(l in all tin- canii)aion. On Snnda\ din in- iIk- intnxal of w.-islii]), from half past iwiKi' to two , inxa.kd II. .t- an\- I5a\', -oin^^- from door to dodr. ix- |)lainin,<4 I" tin- i)(.-oi)k- what tlu\- wi.a\ disponed to do in tlu- wa\- of >u|)pl\inL; lluin with a nli^ions scrxici' and tx- pressin- a di.>irr to know wlRllkr surh a service- wonld Ik- accrptahk- to iJK-m on Snnda\ «.-\-(.-iiin-. 'rik- pi-npk- wi-rc- a>Muvd that tin- offrr was promj)t».-d 1)\ lo\r, and that tlu- oiih aim was tluir V\\v la(. ''. ■■ wire kindly rc-criwd and ihc-ir trial ;; : . was In-xund all rxpecla- lion. 'I'lu- majoritx were in faxorof the sir\ Kx- as explained to them. ()nl\- two lamilies (.bjieted ; one was a Roman Catholic family, tlu- other ran a she- heen and evaded the Snnday law. 'IMu- luad of the Roman Catholic faniil\ said : "We are iu)t o\ e vttur nlaii^ion and do not nied it. We haw onr own chnrcli, ' H ■ft 6^ TIN-. ()"i;UTrR.\ ()' HOTAXV HAV which is thf thnu- church and it's t^dod ciioiif fiir 11/ at aiiN tiim-, anv (la\-, rain or shiiic. V(m need not *^i\c u/ vonr onld tracts full of (kvil's lies. You had hcltcr kapc thim, for \\c wouhl onlv tear thini or put thim in the fire, the onlv fit place for theni." After a little oxxxl-uatured chaffino-, the efTort L;) he uiade was uumc fullv ex- plained, aiul then all opposition was w ith- drawn on the c«>ndition that the jMvach- ino was not to he opposite their doors ; they were of the opinion that their feel- in.y^s ou<,dit to he respected. IJut there was another family who volunteered the use of their stairway as a pnachiut^ staud, and tliis o^ave the speakers the control of the whole street. The nej^otiations made a tremiudons demand uj)on Jack's ner\-ous sxsteni, as the real battle was more with himself than with the people, fitting; himself into the situation as it opened up to him. The preliminaries settled, it was time for the afternoon service and the admin- istration of the Lord's Supper, a weeklv observance at that time. The\- entered -•i^d8fli*4» .'^I«lHB' _ :«^-i -•"•_: - ►■ ^■.- l<=i :^i&i)' -''mSm Tin-: I.WASION (H-- lloiA.W l:\v (>- lliL- c-Iiurch with -raUl'iil ,m,l suhdiud lit-arts. A \ icloiv had Keen wi.ii in \U^{. any Ilav, and tiny tVll iIkihscK cs in a tU IranK- to sino as uvwv htfoiv ; I'l.li-^O (lotl (Volll ulldlll .ill l)lf.s>i|1-> tlnw, rr.ii.-,c liim ,ill cicMiiiix's iicrc hcli.u. After vSnnday-scliool — for l„,tli tanu;lit in the- school — ihr\ rctir-d into out- of Ihc vestries to (.■ntrt.at Cod h\ |.ra\Lr to j^rant unto ihtin the siKcial -nidance of the Holy Spirit that all niiohi hi- done \visel\- and well and to his ,i;lorv. Kisino from their knees and punctual to the nio- uient, they were in l!oian\ I!a\ at half past six. The people were ea,L;erl\- on the out- look, the outside stairwaws were iauinied with hearers, e\er\- window was thrown open and black with heads, and the nar- row roadwav wa> hlled uj) with an ea^cr lhrou,ior\ of the' place. The service wa opined w'th the siu<^in-^ of McChexne's beautiful h\ uin ■ I (.nr*.. vv,|. ., str.m-rr tu -i.u c ,in,i i,. (;,„1, And kiR-u n,,| i,u .l.in-cr .m.l uii n,,| iii\ l,..!,i, i ,iij "3!S (>S Till-; o'l'.UTlUN <»' ItOlANV I'.AV I houi^li tiK'nds ^ixtku ill r.iptiiic of l.'lin>t on tlu' trie, |fli(p\i(lkciiii. 'lu.i> iiDiliin^ to mc. This li\ 11111 was so siiii^ llial llic- iu- lialtilaiils could r.ol know lliat it was not an original coinitosilioii and llitir own licail's c'xpifssion ot" low to Jisus. It was sniio w ith deep iVc-lin^ and luartx expression and cajjtix aled iIk- crowd. jack read tlic fifteenth cha])terol" Luke's ( ios])el, >^i\ino a running coinnieiit, then there was prayer hy vSihis, i^ixiiii;" the luart free rein to talk with (iod hir.iself in helialf of the ])eople of Ilolaiiv IJav. It was an earnest, simple, direct, se-nsible ])ra\er. Tlu peo]>le so felt and seemed to !)(.- awe-d ami snhdned 1)\ it, 'IMu opmino exercises prejiaied the ])i-ople for the list, and their freedom in j)rayer enahled the \tiiino men to meas- ure- their own ])owcis, inan^iiio- their libeitN and tenderness of luart in ad- dress. According to af;reenieiit Jack was to take the opeiiinm address. His talk was on the '■ lost sheej)," the- shepherd lea\in<4 I! I hi =: Till', IWASION oi- |!(»r,\\v l!A\ (h) till.- bulk (.f Ills (lock satV in tin- fold and scUiii'^ out in search for tlic lost <.iu-. He had sccnslici)hcrd life in the West- ern Iliohlands, and had wiliuxsid ilu- rescue of a poor lost sheep, sick and woundi'd and ready to die-. Caut^ht in the wool hy a whin hiish, it hnn.o ,,m-,- the face of a cliff riad\ to droj) into the ahyss heiieath. He .graphically descrihed the heart, the darinu, and self-sacrilici- of the earthly slu-pherd in the rescue (.f the lost >heep, and his joyful iriunii)lianl return after its lecoverv. He then spoke of the lovilli^ JeMIS, Soil of (;o^ piiiv and hol\. Tht\ knew that tluy wciv not what they once wciv, even with- in the reach of nieniorv. Ilenmindcd tluni of childhood's davs, its innocence and pnriiy, their earhChris- tii.n edncation and trainin*^, the ))ra\er they had been tan<;hl at their mother's knee, and mother's j)ra\ers and tears on their acconnt. \ motlur was, perhaps, with jesns in the better land, and a mother's interest niimht follow them still. Thex were besonoht in all tendirness to allow Jesns to sa\e them while salvation was ])ossible. It was t-arnest. passionate, lovino, pleadin-;, one hea.rt j^ivin^- ont its lo\e to man\ hearts in wonderfnl full- ness. Stroma men at once broke down and wept like bairns, and the wom«'n TIN-: I.WASION Ol- IIOT.WV I! \V 7 1 folk s()l)l)c-(l riolii out and bcwaiUd their sinful, In.st conditit.ii. The place hccanu- a liochiiii. May \vc not think that Cod's aiii^xK l«>okcd down with holy interc■^l on I'.ol- any Uay that ni.i;ht, and the Lord JeMis saw of the Iraxail of his soul in those pool penitents? He was the npliftint; of the place as he was uplifted in faith and love. Silas followed Jack, cniphasi/in«4 what had been said, openinj; to them the vol- ume of his own experience, and (hawiu}^'^ a picture of the " Prodioal's Return." With a iiyinn and a ])ra\er the service closed. Suitable readinjr was disttibuted, incpiircrs beset them, Hotany Hav was open to the *;ospel of the j^race of (iod. It was a triumph of orace and a modern miracle ! The effort ])Ut forth in love by the bov preachers luel with no remonstrances, neither were they hit by bnken bottles. Love conquered, because the preachers thenit'lves were love's concpiest. Ciod had honoied them, and they wej)t for jov that Botany Hay had received the savin<.r TilP I-si- m I TIN-: <)'i:Krik\ o' isota.w i.av Ji UK-ssa,i4c th.it (Ia\. Il w.is far into tlu- iiij^Iit IkIoiv tlicy could cN.sc tluir cy..- ill sk-ti). Tlu- hand had hiv n pnl lo Uk- plow ; thtiv ninst \)v no looking; harkward and no \v<.ak-kni.vd dYorl. Tlu- haltlc inu.sl l)c' pusht-d to thr j^alt's, and now that tlir incmy had hcvn altacki-d jack would ratluT die than ivticat. Tlu- situation demanded liiioisni of a hi^h onkr. 1 here was to he regular sei\ iee e\ei \ Sunday evening, weathir permitting. The i)astor was delighted with the suc- cess achieved, and at the Wednesday e\enin<; pr.iyer nieetino niade special nuntion of the evan.i;eli/ation of iJotanv Ha), anr its suceess. Then pra\er was offered as m \er before f(.r "the puir folk ow'er in n, ian\ P.ay, that (;od would in love lead their hearts tae hinist:\" Cod had U! ide their own hearts tender and bio- enouoh to hold the eriin^ ones in affec- tion. Son.e of the friends who had stood aside in unhelief and moral eowaidici-. afraid to accompany the .voun,^ heralds 'ft^^^ ^ ■'i'^aiifr -^'flfc^ .itev^. ■:AJh £:^i rin-: invasion ok iioiann itw 7^ oil tluir irtuid of •nuiv\, now volmi- tccMvd their a>si.staiicf atid htoan to pray for till- siu'ctssof iIk- work ami for Satan's oxcrthrow in tin.- (li>trict. TIk- i\an)nvlistic work 011 tlii' folic. w- iii<; vSunday was like that of llu- )Mvcfd- in^ one. The st-rx kx- was jiisl as aj>pro- priatf and earnest, the i-ntwd (piite as threat, the interest intensified, and tlie re- ception t.\en more cordial. ,S. luu- of the hardest cases, both men and women, aj)- ]>earcd lookinnr sober and rational, a \erv uncommon thin\- the l)i.)-iai.hirs of HiaiiKid, I>a\s..n, Wliitc'- fK-hl, Cauv. Knihl,, Williams, and others. He had an ideal ! A fiiv at tinus hnnifd in his hoiK's as to niissionarv lift-. His spirit was too hior for his weak body, and Ins weak Ix.dy was a htake on the rnn- niiij,^ j,r^,,r of his niiseirish life. On ac- connt of his inx.lonocd sirkncss and hard nsa<,rc in hoyhood, he had not the- physical strenj^th he now seemed lo possess, hut he had jrrcat will power. Ik- was of medium lu'ioht. sqnarely built, mnsctilar, broad- shonldered, with lar-e head, ^miy e\es, and l)londe complexion. In tempera- 74 »?? I I yy ^m iiKiit, iKr\(.tis, >\iiii)allictic, and iinpnl- >i\c-. vSoiiic wtiv not slow lo say; "Ik- is a horn (.ralor." In addivss lie- was Miiipk-, direct, and ]Krsiiasi\ c His suh- jicl and aiidic-ucc lo Iiiin wc-iv t-vi r\tliiii,o and Jack luMvv nolliin^. CInist was ;'1K and Ik- nin>t \k' heard. Had Ik- lixi-d in tlu-days d" St. I-rancis, llial -ood man iiii-lil navi- had a discipk-. rnst-lfisli- iKss and -..sprl siniplicit)- WL-re- iIk- aim <>1 his litV, and Ik- conld sec- no oiJKr pathwav open to nst-fnlncss, or to a happ\, jHai-ftni end. IK- was hlainL(I hv sonK- for ])r(.-ai-hin^ an inipraclioahk- -osprl. simply JK-cansc- int'p^'ii'i.U the- Scriptnn-s Ik- showed that Ihf -ospcj is a litV a< wt-il as a creed, -nid that tlK- life is IJK- iM-o.hK^t of oiK-'s trust, noi (.nlv i,, the criK^'tk-d Jesns, |,ni also in the Jesus who rose from the dead, \vh(. lives and is possessed of ail power in heaven and in larth, an1 livi-lli in 11K-, .111(1 llu' lit\- wliirli I now H\t' in tlu- llcsli, I liw 1)\ llu- I'.iitli oi' IIk- Son of ("lod wlio i(-\co(l\ i> tlu' UnipK'ol tlir IIol\ (iho.sl, wliii'Ii is in \oii, which \ (.■ Iia\i (>f(io(l, and Nt-aix- not \oiii own? l"(i Vf ail.- lioniL^hl with a piici-. thiixlou i;loiil\ ( lod in \op.r ImmK and in \oui spirit, wliich ai\(iod\." ,I;Kk\s liU'soU'^ would hr, "Christ is all." TIk- doiti iiu- was loo >troii<^ li'oin one so xouii^;. vSilas SliiliiiL;, soinr tiiik' alti r ]\v had taken a colk'^c course and whiK- .i ,stn- (kiil in lluolooy, was laiK-d upon to addic-ss a kilc-lun nurlin^ of poor linni- l)lr folk. Wht-n llir sir \ ice closed Mis. MacW'hirtcr, one of his aforetime ad- mirers, stepped np to llu front and thanked him for his fine, helj'fiil dis- course and wnlnred the rein.irk : " I liked yon mneh hitter. .Silas, lufou \ on u()i <^ranimar and the nsc- of hi- \\(>r'.:s. ,Stn\l\' \ on an- ;^oi:!i; to lie a profrssor. 1>nt \on should h,i\e smuu' pit\ npoll poor lolk who h.l\e '^ot hill littlo ■4- If i; M 7^ I'lii'; o'lvkTikx ()' Hor.wv w.w c-(liicali()ii and wlio arc out of the ivach of liiuh-How 11 I<:ii<,rHsli." It is tnif Ik- ,li,I „,,t f^.,.] UhnsvU flat- ttiv I hy the ohsenatioii that ho was spoiled hy liisjrrainiiiar, hut it awakc-iicd 111 Iiim tiic cousc-iouMKss that he liad made an advance-, v.hiu it was uoticcahlc to her. IJut Mrs. M.icWhirter's ..hserva- tion was worth thinkiu.Lr „„t in more than one direction. Culture ando.)(,d style oiioht to he the aim of every student, hut culture is not everything, as souie would make us he- lieye, for effective .t^ospel prcachiiio ; I,„t self-adaptation is also iiecessarv. Men admire men hut detest dandies and af- fectation. It niiojit not he verv diMuified to talk i" a roomful of ] ,- jieople as Jack Fos- ter sometimes di.l, if judovd i,v ordinarv rules. He talked in the hn.ad doric of his niother tongue deiii.erately, remem- bering- that a kitchen nieelino- was n.-t the class-room, and that his audience were not students, hut a roomful of p,,,,,-, illiterate peoj^je. hun-erino for spiritual f<"'(.- the- iVtl which naluiv lias oiwn him, and do it very hiunhly to<.. Whtiv (Kks di;^iiii\ coiiif ill, in low's caiiu^l cffoii lo coiii- ])ass the sinm-i's salvation? 'I'Ir- onh hc^-oUin of thf h'atlKT as tlu- Son of man hnmhlc-d liinistlf and hccanu- oIk-- ditnt unto dtath. Wlniv was thr dio- iiily ? It was all i<4noniinv and stdf- ahasc'iiKiit. Lft di,onit\ pc-rish in siudi (.•irtM.nistancfs a.s coinj).issiiio the sinner's salvation, and allow love and oood sc-iisc lo pivxail. If it will soften a human heart and hrini^ a poor lost sinner 'o the teet of Jesus, to j^-^t heiieatll his eve and catch his kindl\- look, and to he.ir him say as (it yore, 'Tin' sins are fors^ixen tlu-e ' — use the doric, and let the ei iitclns .^<> to the wall. It is worth u>in,i; wlun what is worth more than the world is at stake." This was jack's ojiinioii. He noted the ditTereuce helwetn ivadini^ an t-.ssa\ to a roomful <»i stndrnts, and a li'M I So Tin- ()'i:kTrkN ()' HoTAXv n.w coinpain- of poor old folk iiKl Io^ciIkt lo Hslcii to a gospel talk. IK- saw tlicni lo l)c as tar apart as luavcii and (.-.irtli. Jack had a tlicor\- of his own. well tested, as to open air preaehiiim and how- to nianaije it. It was simply this: "Open !)\- sin<,nn, met and e\ed each other in a niffed and snarled. e\in- each other in the most n.i^l\ and threatening \\.i\. iheir c\es at times idxinL; "tit sjKuks of ap.-er. 'I'iien suddenly with a -urr\-won\. tlic\- oat eac-h otlur he the throat, and simp]\ luld ,,11 with a deailiK ^lip. u i 4-* •ii m 82 TIN', o'i.UTrkX ()' HoTANV liAV [ 5 was an up and down tussle. Virsi the out- and llitn the- otliir would he on top. It looki'd as if thf\- would j^o on in this way until tlKiv was nolhiuj^ left of them hut their tails as nienienlos of the struj.^- L^K' for niaster\ . A tloj^ fioht is attractive to masouline human nature, and verv soon fathers a crowd, and men take sides as to the winninin out- or the j^anier one of the two. "When the crowd was satistled that the doi^s had fonj^ht ion^- enough, some of its illustrious nuMuhers set ahout sep- aratinti them, pnlhno- them a])art 1)\- the tails, takino fust one and then the other, but the slroui^er the jnill, the more vi- lioMs the brutes became, as it just made them ourry-worrv, oiirry-worrv each other all the more. It was just frij^htful to see how the - Ik- iIriv is a little ot' it in i1k> huiiian. "Il is a niaUrr for tliaiikfuliKss tliat foik aiv not all silly and stnpid. vSonit- have- a orain of si-nsc left tlitin, and it liflps to save iIk- niajorilN. In the very niomtnt of the d(.i,rs' t\tivtnit\-, and the iM-owd's nttcT lR'l])k'ssiKss to put a stop to the fi.oht, an old Ilieland man, who had been a silent spectator, l)ra\vlv and bravely elbowed his way thron.i^h the crowd, sa\in<4, ^'"^ li<^' made his elbows do their best woik : " 'Hand oot the^ait, han«i not the oait (keep ont of the way), \e lot o' oamnrals (silly folk). Ve no nnderstan' j)izness, or hoo tae manage tac to^s.' " There he stood inside the rin,i^, near the (loos, and looked on the sitnation philosophieallw Snddeidy he thrust the rnii,a'r and thnnd) of his rii^dit hand inio his \est j)()cket, and brought out a lor- loise-shell box, which he ta])ped on liie lid anc' then opened with a look of satis- laclion on his broad, bronzed face. Put- tino his fiw^vv and tlunnb into the open box he took ont a pinch (jf Taddx's ;i ' 1 I M 11 S4 Tin- o'hrtckn- ()• noTAw n.w t1 siiiiff, and pill (,iic half iti one nostril, and half in the other, and sniffed it np into the reg^it.ns of his inlelkrlualitv. He was refreshed and fell in a mood now for business, and the crowd was all e\- j)ectation. He then took ont another pinch of 'Taddy's Cennine,' and held it for a moment between finoerand lliinnb, and looked thon-^htful, wailiui^ his op- porte :.,v, and then aiminj^r fair, he cpii- ctly ciUvi slyly slipjjed into the eye of the nicrh dojr one-half of the piiich, and the other half of it went into (he eve of the off do*;-, " Like a flash of liohtnii'L; they niilcd in- wardly, wonderfullx- well pleased with WAYS OF i'ki:Acinx(; 85 liiinsclf, and liij^hly aniiisccl at llic be- haviour of the crowd. "The IHtlaiid nia-.i uiiderslood dog na- ture, and the efl'ectivencss of Taddy's snufl to snh(hie hrnte perlinacitv. lie was a man o' sense. One has to know something of the hnnian animal, and how to man.iu^e him if one wonld win liim to a better life. vSonietliing more is needed tlian an intimacy with books and the dead lanjiiuii-es." I rfi ill feS?l?r4:-il l; *^/ in [I if CHAPTER VII A CAMI'AKIX PLAXNKl) The only coiuhisivc evidence of a man's sin- cerity, is til. It he K'\«-">' himself for a ])rin(i|)le. Words, money, all tliinj;s else are comparatively easy to <;ive auay. hut when .1 nian makes a ^\t\ of his d.iily lile ,inil practice, 11 is |)lain that the truth, whatever 11 may be, h.\-. taken hold of him and has him in its possession. -y.iw,:- h'„i-r.'.' I.,<:v,ll. A S the ^'ospcl had now oaiiitd a foot- l\ i'i}4 ill Botany P.ay, tlie pa.stor, who was deeply interested in its success, counseled a series of si)eeial .services and the throwino; open of the church in connection with them. .\ niohtlv serv- ice in tiie Hay, to he followed bv one in the church, was propo.sed. The people were to he invited at the clcsc of the open-air scr\ice to attend llie church .serv- ice, just as they stood, unwashed, un- kempt, and in dishabille, as it was a " workiui^Miian's" service. S() if!: A CAMI'AKIN 1'I,ANM;1) In the Hri^oratc the Ktv. Doiioahl MacCoU had just such a svrs itt- aiul it was a siiccos, and why not such a sci\- icc for Botany Hay ? In nioviu}; upon Botany Bay for Chris- tian conquest, there was now to he con- certed action. The work had pressed itself upon a nundx-r of youn^ hearts valiant for the Lord and enthusiastic in evan<>;eIi/.ation. The pastor was at the head of the movement. All these xouni; people were either directly or indirectlv the fruit of his own lovin*,^ and faithful ministry of the word. Ik- was one of those men who would never think of settinjL,'^ another to do that from which he shrank hinrself. His policy was not, " Von ^o and do that," but, "Come and let us do it," and then lead in it. He was abundant in labors, loved to l)reach the j^ospd in all its fullness, and was not afraid to preach it in the open air in public i)laces. In fact it was on the Green in "auld Broad-brim's" pul- pit, that Jack first made hisac(iuaintancc, and there liad his heart softened by his presentment of the jjospel. n m MICROCOPY RESOIUTION TEST CHART (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) 1.0 I.I 1.25 US lift 2.8 |12 ■ 4.0 1.4 12.5 2.2 2.0 1.8 1.6 ^ APPLIED INA^GE Ir ^^ 1653 Cost Main Street r..a Rochester. New York 14609 USA iSS (716) 482 - OJOO - Phone ^S (716) 288- 5989 - Fox S8 Till-: o'lvRTlRX ()' lioT.VNV I'.AV vv Pastor Wclchnian lahoivd for and c\- puctcd conversions, thron^li tin.- i)n.acli- in<; of ilic word, and Cod j^^avt- him to sec Uk- frnit of liis labors and pcrniiltcd him to oalhtr a lar«^c clmrcli of warni- licarlcd, acti\x- Christian workers. Ihit to j^nidc, control, and k-ad snch a lari^v nnnd)cr of yonnt; luarts intent on ai;- i;rcssivc Christian work, was no casv matter. Christian (lemocrac\- is a verv fine thino, hut it needs an autocrat at the liead of it. On the whok- his adminis- tration was wise, firm, and tender, and he endeared himself to all. Vet he had his dilficulties and was seen to weep time and a.i;ain over them. In the .^oxernint; of others and in the huildino- uji of Chris- tian character, e\er\ man loval to Jesus has ditTicnlties. The Master hinrself had his dilTiculties. vSonie of his immediate followers in the l)e|L;innin«;s of the .i^()S])el showed themselves to he onl\- men — narrow-minded, self-seeking, impulsixe, vindictive, and at times, cowardlv men. (iracc in them, as in ourselves, had to do its work. It was a v.ork of time, and the vSpirit of (iod, throui^h the teachinj^- of A CAMl'AK.N I'l.ANM'.K Sc^ JcMis, made men of tlicni like llicir Mas- ter. In lliis little eoinpaiiy tulisted for the Lord's serxiet- in Hotanx ]Va\ there wert.- some hraw lads, s[)iritual fellows, well read in the Uol\- Seriptiues, and men of prayer, e.\j)ci ant of j^reat thin<;s from (iod and read\ to attemj)t i^reat thin<;s for him. The council of war called con- sisted of the pastor, the yonn^est dea- con, Dick Mossman, An(l\- and Alec Man- son, I^hen MacLaren, Rob Iio\(l, I)a\e Lawson, .Silas Stirling, and Jack lM)Stcr, and a nnniber of .^odly yonnj; women, who were ready to assist in tlie sini^in^, distribnte tracts, or talk to the iiupiirers. It was evident tluy expected to win in the Lord's battle, and that lhe\ never for a moment thon^ht that the people o\er in I'otany I)a\- weri.- beyond the reach of the iL^race of (lod, or that it conld do nothing for them. They knew its ])ower and bk-ssedness in their own lives, and believed with all their heart that what tilt ijospel had done for them it could do for tin- worst as wc-11 a> the best of men. In their fellow-beliexeis the\ had I) ^rii w 90 THK o'KKTrRX ()' HOTAXV HAY seen the powerful workings of divine - of the peo- ple for Christ and the chnrch, and they should desire to iniite by a ])ublic profes- sion of their trust in him, all were to be received who «;ave evidence that Christ had received them, and this inds. pendent of past history, jiresent circumstances, or their surroundings. No one w;is to be discarded because of dress, condition of person or purse, or nature of employment. It was ary;ned, " Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," and not saints, and to lift men morally and socialh , riud after he had lifted them it would be u'adi' manifest. They would rise in the sov ial scale, ap]>rcciate cleanlin ss, be belter hi m ■a -^mrnx- 92 Till-; o'lvkTlRN o' IJOTAXV I!AV ciad, better fed, and have soniethiiiir to .i;ive for the maii.enaiice of ordinances and the propatiation of tne j^ospel. If the Holy ( Ihost did his own work throntdi the i)reachin,«^^ of the word, in time it wonld show it.s^ If, In the nieanlinie all were to he patient, tender, and charitable, and tt) treat i)oor l)eople as they themselves wonld like to be treated, and in this way they wonld aid (iod and the Holy Spirit to do his own work in the hearts of the Botany Uay people. It was a blessed conference and the fruits of it abide nnto this day. It was an honest attempt to oet down to sim- plicit\- and ^<)si)el heli)fnlness, and to arrive at soniethin,"- ])etter than the so- called institutional church. In the adop- tion of the programme there was remark- able agreement, and its adoption laid the foundation of that churcirs future as a spiritual power in the citv. " It does seem strange," remarked Jack after this meetin.i;-, '' that tiiere should be in the ]M-ofessedly Christian church, what one mij^ht term bi^, small men, whose A CAMPAIC.N 1'I.ANM:1) 93 only mission is to block the way of a j^ospcl of reconciliation, a conunon-scnsc oospcl adapted to men of every condition of life, and of every clime ; men who will not fellowship the ])oor man or j;i\e him a lift ontof the social i)il-hole into which he has fallen ; small men, who for^^et their own Innnhle life-hej^innini^s in the battle for wealth and comforts and social statns, and who now talk .ulihl>' <'f so- ciety's demands, and a <;()Si)el of cnlline and refinement; men who wonld hive off the poor 1)\ themsehts, hecatr^e their jrarments are not np to the knocker as to stvle or (piality, and hecanse the pen- nies do not jingle in their ])(>ckets. The talk of these empty-headed iip>tarts is enonuh to make a cnddv lan-^h and the ass, it is allowed, is a \er\- sedate, dis- creet hrnte. ''The despised poor are often found to be brain\-, bi.^-hearted, sensible, Cod- iv irint;' men, clean :\ery whit. It is this cnr>e(l social ostracism and \vorldl\' feelino- that makes organized relis^ion onl\- a semblance of, anose in his opinion, as he was mimhtv in the vScriptures, a man of prayer, a ^ood man. Deacon Manson was the father of a numerous and godly family. He was a shoemaker by trade and a native of Kil- maurs. He had n;reat liberty in praver, a fine^o^ripof j^ospcl truth, could state his opinion with wei|L(ht, and was held in iil^reat respect. He was able to rule well his own house, and was one of the churcirs su])stantial pillars. He was ]X)or, but manly and uprij^ht, spiritual and intelli- i^rent, and to him the promise was ful- fdled, ''Thy children shall all be taucjht of God." His house in the Gorbals was open to the youno; men for pra\er and Bible ^m A CAMI'AMN I'l.ANM'.K ^)5 h study, and to stvk fitnt-ss for Chrisliau scrvicf, and to practise the dtacoii's ideas as the very marrow of the i;osi)el. Ik- was one of (lod's aristocracy, thotij^h In- inu in a house of two rooms and a kitchen in an obscure street. He had been elected to the deacon's office because of his intellectual, moral, and spiritual qualities, and was likely to purchase for himself a ijood de<(ree. 'Vhen a man is not strictly honest and oenevolent in his dealino;s with others, he is apt to be what the Scotch call shackally (a poor walker) as a Christian, afraid of the sound of his own voice, and ready to turn aside from his own shadow. As a man fit for the deacon's office. Daddy Mauson was Jack's ideal : " A saintly man who could visit the sick, sympathize with the afflicted, and minis- ter to them spiritually. He had more of the useful and less of the ornamental than any other man I have ever met with in church life. He was a spiritual boon to the youn<^, stru5^<,din<^ con^^rej^a- tion and a j^reat source of strcn<;th and comfort to the pastor. He was not ni 11 HI !f Hi '!!:i: jii; m <■)() TlIK o'KRTLKN o' HUTAW HAY ill-Iookiii;^' mail, nicdinni hcij^lit, wtU htiilt, with a haiulsonio t>iK-ii face, and a pleasant nianiior of address, a j^aiicv man (stately in appearance . "Mrs. Manson was a fit companion for one fillinj^ the deacon's office. vShe was a woman of fine bearinj:^ and sweet coun- tenance, had a kind, motherly heart. ^m A CAMPAIGN I'l.ANM.I) 97 ahoiuulcd in j^ood lher of the women folk of the con^re«;ation. " Mar«;ery lived very near to ( lod, loved the y^ospel, was Spirit filled, had a warm heart to all Christian people, and was (pieenly in her poverty. She was to all tlie yonni; men who met at her honse for pra\er and Bible study a sym]xUhetic mother, and was often consulted by them in practical matters to profit." Jack says : '' The deacon took an iti- terest in me from the bej^inninj^. lb- was interested in mv historv, dealt kindlv with me as a lad bereft of all my kindred and out al ne on life's j^^reat sea. He won my respect and lived in my affec- tions. He was a father in Israel, and when God took him to himself by a mysterious providence, every one felt he had lost a friend ; and to the clnirch the loss was irreparable. But to the younj^ people Marj^ery was more dear than ever. In her widowhood he influence did not wane, but <,Mew more healthful and helj)- i; (>S Tin.; o'l'.UTfRX n' HoTA.W MAY till. Tlic yoiiiijj^ woimii as will as llic youii^ iiKMi pri.lUc'd by her saintly, useful life. Oh, thai such lives could he uiulti- plied in every center of population! It would he to the j«:reater )^lory of (lod in the spread of the }^osi)el. A selfish, extreme individualism to-day mars the beauty of the j^ospel and robs it of its power as the word of reconciliation." wm m CHAPTKR VIII A WONDKRITL liVIAlNd 'I'licrc sIkiII hi- sh.iwLTs of blessin),'s. Precious rcMviii;; ;i;,Min. AvS thf weeks passed llie iiterest lie meetinj^s did not wane, 'ml it^iew more manifest. The days \\a .'C j^ettin^^ shorter and tlie cvei ^m's chii >, and an indoot service \v. Hotany Hay was ninch to be desired. It was time for the pro- posed movement. At tlic close of the first week-nijrht service Jack broached the propriety of an indoor service, and told his hearers how the main andience room of the chnrch had been placed at their disposal, and that the ervice was for all of them jtist as they stood in their work clothes. There was no time for a clean-np, and in the circinnstances no need of it, either. The sooner it be.yan the earlier wonld they . Heading- theiii all was that wonderful woiiian, "Coal Jean," who li\ed in the first house on the rij^-ht-hand side as von entered the liay. She had a small sho]) or store, and sold milk, bread, and coals. As she led in the ])rocessi(>n, her face and her hands were all begrimed with coal j^uin, or dust, for she had to sho\el and wci<:^h out coal in small (luaulities to suit the purse of her customers. She was a woman of ordiuar\' si/e, but muscular, had a nice, pleasant face, a bii^ heart, and an open hand. vShe wore a calico dress, a dru<4^(.'l apron, both the worse for wear, A WONUKKl-LK lAl'.MNC. lOI and a white Hncii cap, or untUJi^ with fluted border, which, owiiii; to hrr occu- pation, was not \cry clean. vShc was not tidy or the least churchlike, hr.t it was a triumph of divine i^race to <;et her to a place oi Aorship in an\- condition. "Jean " was fond of a dram; pirhaps she thon_t;ht she needed it to clean out her bronchial ap])aratus, for owinj^ to the coal dust sellliui; on h(.r limits, she was at times a little bit whee/y and .short of breath. Hut in the use of whisky she sometimes went too far for Ik r own j^ood. vShe was a j^ood-hearted, social creature', but a st)re affliction to lur own man, a mean creature, and now more so than e\er, when she was likely to become re- lij.;ious. *'Jean" led the way, and the rist of the P>otany folk followed lur, and, after all, it was a (pRer crowd to take to a house of worshij). She followed closeK' on Jack I'oster. There was no turning back at the door, but in she marched at the head of an army and held on her way until she was well up the aisle, and then around she wheeled to look for her ^ to their oc- cupation or natural characteristics — a custom peculiar to Scotch people of the humbler class. Of course there were, as mijrht have been expected, two or three uppish, fas- tidious, crotchety people who saw in this kind of thino: the downfall of all decent, clean rclicrion, and the breakinjr ,ip of a re- A woxDivRFii, i:vi:ni\c. '^'3 siK-cta1)k', ]n"ospcroiisconorcqati(Mi. T1r\ were like llic priest and the Levitt", on the other side of the road, and thon^ht the kirk was not for a h)t of dirt> ])anpers. It was a pa\in<; concern, and there was no business in brinj^inj^ in a burdensome lot of pot)r, useless people. They were stout contenders for a re- li<;ion of culture and loft\-, intelli<;ent piety, and were also the warm friends of missions to the far-away heathen, yet stone-blind to the heathenism of Botany Bay, which was always well in si<>;ht and within touch. It has been well renuirked : " It is nu)re possible to love and sympathize with our fellow-men than our capricious nature would have us believe. We are in the habit of drawiu*;- too many arbitrary lines of demarcation indicatinj;^ the boundaries of our love to men. Some fall within, others as surely fall without these lines. This person does not come up to our standards socially, another does not share our individual beliefs, so we draw a line mentally, which leaves such outside the line of our love, and we tacitly relieve 43 1 1,1 i (3. . ■ t- !; ■ "T t ;Ufl I ) .J I04 THK o'KRTrKX o' BOTANY HAV ourselves of any ohlioation to tliein wliicli love would inij)()sc. In)r any reason or for no reason, simply l)eeause ' we do not like tlieni,' or from unspoken inward contempt and pride, we draw the zi-rip of the or()sj)el. It was alwavs a feast of fat thinos to listen to him. He was a Welshman and had been a missionary in Jamaica for some years, and so was not unacquainted with black faces or poorly clad folk. P)Ut the face or its conditions does not always indicate the man. We look at the out- ward, (iod at the inward, and he is the A WONDHKKri. lAl.MNC id: keener sighted and never makes mis- takes. The pastor presided, but the manav;c- ment of the serviec was in the hands of the yonn;^ peoi)le as 1)t'fore outlined. The prayers were l)rief, sensible, and earnest, so also were the addresses, and the singinj;^ was aj)propriate and heart\. There never was such a prater meetinj^ before in that part of the city in the his- tory of religion. The workers were mixed up with the audience. No one was called upon 1)\ name to take ])art in the j;roceedinos, all was left open, and there were no Ion*; ])auses, or breaks, iis all were ready to aid as o]iportunit\- of- fered. The hearts of all were runninj^ over with desire and exj)ectancy of a larj;e blessinji^ in Jesus' name. A short address was j>iven, and then several prayers, offered in all parts of the audience room, five or six takinj^ part in turn, (iod was wrestled with in behalf of Hotanxs people. He was reminded of his promises, and of what he had done for themselves for Jesus' sake : "We oov- sels hae been helpless, ha])less, hopeless io6 TiiK (>'i;kTru.\ <>' hotaw p.av "!' sinners on the very pit-inoiitli of perdi- tion, and ahont tae slij) in and be lost forever. I*>nt thou hast been i)leased to save us, and it was all of free, sovereij^u j^race, and not for anythiui; in us, or that we liae dune. Oh, we ask thee in Jesus' name tae dae for the Botany folk what it has pleased thee tae dae for r >, hv the powerful work iu.i>()' the Holv Chost in their hearts and eonscienees. () Lord, dae it for Jesus' sake, or they will he for- ever lost. Lord, save theui, save now, for Jesus' sake. Anicn." In the foreo-oiuir we o^riu hut a faint idea of the jMayers offered and the spirit of the nieetiun:. Jack say;; : "There was adoration, confession of sin, thanks for all mercies, a pleadin.i; of the promises, and earnest intercession in behalf of the Hotany folk who had braved all and come out to hear the j^ospel of the <,nace of Ciod." There was in the cout^recration a tin- smith, Andrew MacXair, who had re- cently returned from .America full of the revival spirit, and well versed in Amer- ican methods of work. There was also A WOXDKRiri. KVKNINC, lO; a onc'-cycd old iMi^lislinuui, a Methodist and an iron-pnddlcr, wlio liad come all the wav from Dixon's furnaces to «ret re- li»;ionsls warmed up, as he said, for since his arrixal north he had just heen frozen spiritually. He had heard of the meet- inj^s and had to come to help, if need be. These twt) were a host in themselves in the realm of the enu)tional The vScotch-V;inkee tinner and the old iMiolish jmddler could not and would not keep quiet. MacXair <;<)t out of his pew into the aisle and went backward and forward clappinj^ his hands and offering .short ejacnlalory prayers, and old Silas Whitman helped him on with his warm, hearty respon.ses and o roans, and in a little while there was a roarinj»^ fire of relio;ious excitement. In the opinion of some it was Pentecost over a<(ain, in that of others it was a crazy outbreak of re- lio;ious feelinor. Over the audience room one and another was entreatino; (iod for mercy. Hearts had .softened, the flood- gates of the .soul were open, and there was .sore .sobbing- and confession of sin. The place was a Bochim. (I Io8 THK O'KKTIRN (V IJOTAXV BAY Sonic WL-R- coiiipkttly ttrrificd out of their wits, and did not lake time to open the pew doors to oet out. but just leaped over into the aisle and out of the place, as if runninjr a steeple chase. Anionjr those who ran out was Jamie I'lemino, a poor useless body, a baker, j^iven to drink, who more than once had had delirium tremens. lie had been in attendance to ^ratify his i)oor old mother. He <,^ot out of the place like a streak of li<4htnino-, and as if all the powers of evil were in chase to mt him. Jack Foster said wiien spoken to : "I was not prepared for this, neither was my fellow-worker, but if it is the Lord's doino; we are satisfied. Time will show whether it is of the Lord or of man." The poor deacons did not do anvthiuf but sit and swino; to and fro in their scats and wrin>>- their hands and weep like bairns. Old Daddv AlcOuat, a dairyman, a l)i.niiul, 1 l.iniuinioiis U> the c.ir ; lit'.ncn with tlic c'( ho sliall rcsoiiiul, And all the c.irtli sli.ill hew. ''PIII<: spirit which kd Philip Dcihliid.oc- X to compose those lines led the ma- trons Macniillan, Dempster, and (leni- nill, to wait npon the honse factor to see whether he would not i»;rant them the nse of an enipt\ honse in the Macmillan tenement, which for a time had stood tenantless. They rcqncstcd it rent free, for mission pnrposes, and assnred him, '' It will he the very makin^- o' the place. See what the ^race (»' (iod has dnne for the ]>lace alread\-. A honse o' ])rayer in the dis- trict wonld be a heacon licht in the dark- ness and dann^er o' the place, and a credit tae ns a'." Mr. Kirkwood was a keen 114 TIM'; MISSION iiorsi'; 1 1 business iiiaii ixud iiuinat^vd his alYairs to the satisfaction of his nnnicnais clitnts, and witli bnsintss foivsij^ht, as well as Christian s\ nipathy, lie j^ranted the free use of the tenantless house as a houst.' of worship. Once in possession, the women sit themselves to clean up the place. Thev also provided lamps, benches, and, the stran<,a'st thin«; of all, an old puli)il, which was bous^ht from a second-hand dealer. As described to us : " It was an anld bar- rel kine o' thiiii*- aboot four feet in di- ameter, and had a door b>- which the preacher entered and could snibb him- seP in, and live and move in a worP o' his ain. It had been in its dav a sjrand afTair wi' its book-board covered wi' crim- son velvet, and adorned wi' thick silk cord and tassels; and a lan^^ heavv silk frecui^e. It had, of course, seen belter days and had accommodated man\- ^reat men." The women desired the i)lace to look as much like a kirk as it could. It was all done without the knowK'd<,a' of the two lads who had been made respon- sible for the mission, and it was a C(jm- I *il th lib THK O'KRTIRX o' BOTANY HAV plcte surprise to tliciii, and it was meant to be so. " We were," sa\s Jack, " ignorant o' their onj^oino;.s, until they waited on us wi' the request that we woukl take charge o' the mission and <,rie them a vSa])hath afternoon and Thursday ni<;ht service. " Dumfoundered does not by anv man- ner o' means express the state o' mind awakened by such a request, and such a revelation. We had not the heart to re- fuse, thouo-h our labors then were more than enough for the strenrove our oifts, if we had any, by attending evening school. We went over at the request of the ladies to inspect the house and the furniture, and the whole was a credit to them, they were assured. 'But that pulpit,' said vSilas. ' is more than enough to make one stand on his head wi' astonishment. Such an idea ! a real pulpit, such a big bit o' fur- niture, in a room about eighteen feet square!' We did not like it, but there it was, an expression of the women's .sense o' fitness, and of gratitude also. THK MISSION n<»rsi-: 1 1 " Others appreciated the iiiissiDii pul- pit and made use of it, hut I coiikl not do other than n-j^ard it as a thitij;- alto- j^ethcr out of phice and the height o' nonsense. It always made me feel as if I were at an immense distance from the poor buddies who sat in front of me, and could have been touched with my hand by reachinj^ over the book-1)oard. Still I refrained from j;i vino offense, but when I warmed up and had a i^ood ^rip A mv subject, I just o()t out softly from the ohl thinj;, and stood ])etween it and the old people, felt more at home, and had <;reater Ijower." It was deemed advisable to uet as man\- as possible to share in the work of the mission, so as to j^ive variety in the serv- ice, as well as to enlist fresh talent to forward Christ's cause. JSnch an ar- rantj^ement would leave the young men free, as used of (lod, to take away the stones and break up the fallow jj^round yet to be cullixated. Jack, owini; to his occupation, had to be uj) out of bed at an early hour of the day, and was not released from severe 4 il . EI 1 ■ ■ t| i Il8 THK o'KRTrRX ()' ROTAXV HAV labor umil a soincwliat late hour of the cvcniiiromise. They desired the sappy, luscious fruit of (hkI's word, and not the dry, tasteless leaves, no matter how prettily they nii^ht be set out, or mi^ht look as to form and color. They desired the bones of a sub- ject, the ver\- marrow of the |H(»spel, and the\- expected Cod, the Holy Spirit, to j^ive them all this through his youn<; serv- ants and their elderh- helpers. The\- had a spiritual hun<;'er, and it is said, "a huu- <;Ty man is ncjt o\er-nice as to what is set before him, as lou»^ as it is clean and eatable. Hunger needs no condiuRMit." I)Ut between ourseUes, it was sour- <" s a sore battle to keej) oir's face ^ht in nR'''!iu<; — es])eciall\ wIru led by the vScotcn- Yankee. When it had couR^ to MacXair's turn, he read to them from the .\cts of the Apostles about Paul's voyajj^e throuj.jh the Mediterranean vSea. It was a sea with treacherous tides II m a w w 1 ii I2C) Tin- o'KkTrkx o' hot aw bay and full of rocks to liiin, poor niaii, hut lie (lid not know and could not see tlicni. In naniin.o; tlic diftVicnl places or points touched hy the ship, it was siniplv terri- fic the way he pronounced them, tlauda was the Clyde, and other words in the same ratio of correctness, hut he was ohlivious to his mistakes, and sailed away, tackino- here and there l>e;iutifully until he r.ade harhor. He was far from heiuo; self-conscious or super-sensitiw, and did not know when he was laughed at. He could not see it and therefore rs. They wi-rc after the intelk'ctual au evils, ;ui(l iIk- work of oiact- in Ilotanx I5ay was no txctplion. Sonu- of those whom thf j^racL'of Cod had lifud out of the pit-hok' of sin oot canitd awav, first with si>iritiia] i)ii(k-,an(l tlien with woildlv vanity, and Botany I'.ay eonld not hold them. Jaek said : '' Thty arc just like the wee laddie who stnek i' the lum (ehimncy); they are too bio for their plaee." They must oet out of it and into more respectable (piarters, l)ut th.e same si/e of house in a better nei<>hl)or- hood meant a bio^er rent and more ex- pensive ])lenishin,L' and that a,i;ain meant j^ettino into debt, and it has been said, wdicn debt j^ets in at the door, love •gen- erally i^ets out at the window. There is nothinj^^ sinful in eontraclin^ debt, if one can see any reasonable pros- pect of meetino it when it is due, but to o(> into it hap-hazani, jjurchasiui; wlial one really does not actually need, and then to trust the Lord somehow to ^et you t)Ut of it, is the very heis^ht of \^\\■- stnnption and j^neatly j^rieves the Ibdv vSpirit of C.od. The head of a familv we will not name, orot so hioh-minded and so iff I if; if Wtd^ 124 ; III'; o'l-KTi kx u' uotanv hav lull of lartlily vanit\-, tliat wlu-ii spokt-n lo about lur ahsuuv iVoiii public wor- ship she iiKuk- ivi)]y: "Thouj^h I am no wi' \<)u hodiiy, I am wi' yon in spccrit," iiiid ihc answer ^i\cMi her was : " SisUr ^' . it would he well for you tac briuj^^ \()ur body wi' \()u, wlien you come a«.nt ciivtuiislaiu\ > and {.'ciKral upiitatioii. '.''lu\ <1<» n<>l upon imwill- iiijL( lnucrs, and allii ward boast <>t" lluii lari^c sak>, rush of busimss, and pio— IK'clivt' t'orlnnts. llnl it i> all a crn*. 1 (k-lnsion and a snan, and llu occasion of niischitf and niiscr\ in fandlirs. Mrs. (i was owr head and cars in debt for dress, hoirsc pUnishin^, etc. She was one of those who were too bi^ tor Uolany Iiax, and she was now dnniietl to death bv her enditors. .She- saw she ha iIk- l»t)(l\ |)|i\sical nK(liiiiu- at liims is a tH(.i»il\. Ill tlir (."oiii^n i^atioiial s\ stiin, (li>i"i|)liiK' has to \k- iiiaiiam-d willi inii.it wisdom, tindciiuss, and Chiistiaii riniuuss, tot in tlu iinio\al of llu' olTiiidin^ nKinbii, IIkr- is tilt.' risk of undin^; tlic liod\ to |)iii-i>. 'I'lu- ApostU- I'anl saw tliisol(.atl\. and I'lKufou' fotmsiU-d ; "If an\- man l)f o\ crlakcn in a t'anlt, \c- wliicli aiv spiritnal, restore such a onr in tin- spirit of nKiknt'ss, con.sidfiitijL; thyself Kst thon also ho tcmpl(.(l. Lit him that ihinkilh hf standfth take luvd kst ht- fall." It is passino stranof that those who stand in slippery i)laces themselvis are always the most anxioiis to nr.i^e i)roeednre, and to propose extriine ste])s. After a sea- son of i^raxe an\iet\' and nineh praxer, Mrs. (i was exelnded. hnt not to he treated as a heathen woman, or worthless person. In time the Lord l)ron,<;ht her back aiii^ain to do her first works, hnt it was on a siek-hed and on the very XHr^e ll, tll.lt I ( oulti li'K-V l|- -\\. With M,n\ ,it tlif S,i\ iiiui' > \l-c[ ; llr tlii> iiu li,i|)|)\ ( li(ii( t- ; .M\ (inl\ ( .ill', (Icli^^lit, ,nul hli^-,, M\ ]"\, Ills IllMM'll nil r.irlll !)(,• lllH, 111 lii'.ir till' lii iiii'^niiim' ^ xnui-. //V-.V.r, 'III<< iiiiinI)(.T (.f iiKvtinns, Sundaxs and \vrik-<]a\ , Sdiin i)r(i\(.(l looiuiK'li for Jack I'o.siiv's .slun.i;lli. I Ir i'an<;lil a cold, had coiiL^olitiii o|" [hv luniks, it \\a> said, and had a soiv linic of it, and whilst sick ahcd nian\ of those poor pcopk- called to incpiiic foi hini, Icaxin^ with (iiannic Rodt^ci", oraniLjcs, appks, and .^rapcs, and other nice thini^s, as an ex- pression of their interest and L^nitilnde. ( iod was^racions ; his sickm ss was not a \-er\- ]>rolonned one and so it did not make ninch of a hreak in the wdrk. a> mw hlood had lieell enlisted in thc' srr\iee. ' iji) IJ50 Tin-: o'KRTrKx o' norAxv hav llf m Vonnj; nu-n of a more liberal tducatiou were now doinj^ their part to hold IJotaiu- Bay for Christ, and were intent on ser-- inj^*- him in any capacitx. Hopefnlly eon- verted to (lod themseh es they laid them- selves on his altar for ser\ice, and were at work in the school as well as the I5av. The school had now j^rown so larj^e as to demand the nse of the main andience room and the two adjoining; halls. The last vSnnday of each montli witnessed nnnierous l)aj)tisms on a profession i>f faith in Christ. All the sittin,t;s in chnrch were rented, yet thon^h pew rents i)re- vailed, e\ery one was ready to s^ive np his sittinin to a stranger. Xo stranL^er ever entered and left nnnoticed or with- ont a kind word ha\in<4 been spoken to him ; kind intpiiries were made as to their chnrch connection and their state of spiritnality, and an invitation was ex- tended to '»me ai^ain and to come often. Jack's sickness left him ont of a sitna- tion. as the natnre of his employment made it difTicnlt to keej) his i)lace open ; besides, his manner of Viiv did not meet with the approbation of the foreman, who TH1-; DlSCll'l.!' CLASS 131 was a carcKss man and oiwn to worldly pkasiuf. Ik- (lid all possil.k- to tiini the iR-art of Jack's cini)lo\cr aoainst him, kst by his iiitclliociuv and prohitv Jack mi^ht sni>i)lant liim. It was a test of Jack's faith in Cod ; ont of a sitnation and with nothins; laid up ao;ainst a rainy day, except a I-ather's care. U> could not remain idle, hut did all the more to forward Cod's cause and Cod took care of him. IU> said, " I never had to boast of abundance of this world's oood, yet I never had to com- plain of actual want, or had to be,«; or borrow. Help came when needed, and often from i;ne.\i)ected (juarters, and from where I knew not, but Cod knew and to him I was orateful. My only indebted- ness was to lo\e, and I have alwavs sou<,dit to live so. "I read the Xew Testament, somehow, with eyes different from others. It was a matter-of-fact book to me. Salvation, in my way of looking at it, is spiritual life through turnino- to Cod in Christ, and what Cod by his Sjjirit through the word has inwrouoht in the man will ex- tri I*:' 132 Tin-; o'lvurruN o" koiaw n.w })ivs> itsili' in a ck^iw in tin- man's dis- position, condnct, and (.iKkaxor. Tlif man who is in Christ, or has Christ in him, is a now crc;ition ; ohl thini^s have passed awa\, 'htlmhl all things arc- hr- conK' now.' 'riio l)o(l\-, as woll as tho sonl, is rodcvnicd hy iho bh.o-; of Christ. The body is his as the Sjiirit's dwelling- place, and is to he reserxeil for his use in reconciling; others to him. "The «.;race of Cod is all-siifricient in our l)attle with self and in its con(iuest for Christ. The body, as the i^uest chamber of the Holy Chost, is lo be kept pure and sweet, and the appetites and the passions are not to master us, but we are to be 1)v the orace of Cod their masters. One in some measure must have conquered him- self before he can spiritually overcome others. .\ man may control appetite and be the slave of his passions, an unclean aiul an avaricious man. A man cannot be an out and out Christian who does not surrender his will, ajijxtites, desires, and passions to Christ as Lord and Re- deemer." Jack's teacliino- was to(t advanced for 'nil'; oiscii'i.i': class many of his tldrr, ami als(» for souk- of his yonnt^cT, hivthivn. 'V\k\ ouM not sc-c things ill liis li.i^hl, and hv was civd- itc-d with pivachini^ an inipraclicahlf j^-ospel and a .^osptd oiil of all ivason ; Imt Ik- iiinaiiK-d of llu- o]»iiiio!i that it was a ,i^(»sp(.-l of coinnion scnst.-, and that tin- W'W 'iVstaiiKiit is a coinnion sciisf hook. "The oosptl of tiK- _orac<.- of (mkI." is a civili/inij, ciiliohtfuini^, and sa\iny l)owi.'r. 'J'Ik' j:;<)sp(.d of Jc-.sns in its t^iaiKi lifc-i)riiicipk-s of lovt- and sflf-sacri fu-c proclaims the- hi^lKst idta and (.ini>lo\s the- only adcqn.itc- motive- for tru<. rnl- tinv. Whtn tin- aiim-Js saiii; ihtir i^lorias on the plain of IkthklKin, tl.c\ san^ the broadest, grandest hinediction tliat ever hlcssc-d the world. TIk-v san<4 not that they mi^ht live in eaieless ease, re- ceiving- all and i;ivinj4 noiliiii,L;\ hut tliat the si)irit of Mini whom the^ 'u-ialded mi,t^ht so rule in ns as to ipiieken ns to devotion and service, and thus hastni the " ivij^n of !>eace on earth." Jack l*\)ster m-ver conld he an .\nti- nomian. The prai tical working, of the grace of Cod i-, (nannie I-'oster, as wit- m ttL m I!. 134 Tin-: o'KKTrKx o' hotanv r..\v iKsscd by liim, would forever ]ire\cMt it, if iiothiiio- tlsc (lid, Hf htld that the whole \ew Testament was aj^aiiist sneh a selfish, unserviceable life, amid a world of helpless, suffering;, dyini; men. " Know ye not that the kingdom of heaven is within von? The kin.i^ulom ol heaven is rii^hteousness and peace and jov in the Holy (ihosl." His contention was that these and oiher passaj^es snstained him in his position that the life of the be- liever in Christ Jesns is one of personal holiness, and that he seeks holiness, not that he may be saved, but because he l:as been saved by orace through faith. One of the latest accessions to the diaconate about this time oave to him a very valuable book, lUllamv's "True Relioioii Delineated," which he after- ward found to be most helpful to him in his teaching and preachiuo, and he has said more than once : " I would earnesth commend the book to every Christian as one of the best spiritual hel])s we have in thcKnjrlish lanorua<»^e, aside from the New Testament itself." Bellamy was a son-in-law of the <;reat tf^imm^A I'lM-; DISCIl'I.I-. CLASS ' ;>5 Jonathan I'idwanls, a Kaaj)tist clnnvlK Coni- nurcial Road, London, (.ntitU-d, " The Christian I)iscii>lc- Class." It is an ex- cellent treatise and j^ixes in siiecinet form the theology and ethics of the Xew Tis- tanicnt, the relation of the saved sin- ner to C.od, the chnrch, the faniiK, so- ciety, and the world at laroe. "The Christian Disciple Class" met on vSnnday at mid-day in the house of John X , the Inadle. It nnnd)ired about twenty xouni^; men and women and was conducted in a i|uiet, unostentatious manner, and its main object was the sludv of the Holy Scriptures as related to the personal and relative dutiis )f the Chris- ' ill m i^^'i 'I'm-; ' iwitaw i;,\\ I M liaii lik'. Till.' cl.iss ill two scnsons w mt <'\ir tlir wlioK- ^rKUinl i..(lic-.il(.iii|n iKliiiiii. Thr clas.s Iiaoci«.t\, to ihc c'i\ il ^ovcrniiunt, and, in fact, to all that concerns a Iniman life tliis side the ]L;ia\c. 'I'hc occasion of jack's takiii^^- np the class was an nnhaj)py fend and an un- holy rupture hetween the xount,'- men of the lv\an_mli.slic Association and the j)as- tor of the church. S(it of liitkllUss " iIkiI wis t(i^i\L- trouhU-. ll \\;i.s jii(»jnis(.(l that llit.' \ at ;r: iii 'I MJ : i ll .-a ! 1 T,>> Till". ()'i;UTIU.\ ()' lloTANV I'.AV till o'clock to hriiiiL; ;il)oiit ;i ricoiu-ilia- tioii, W'c had much |)ia\cr and siiitaldc vSciii)tiirc ivacHiii^, and then as leader <»f the nicctiiii^ I kn,m\ Nonn.ir man, I wonld ratlur have pnt that ri^ht hand into the fire and held it there nnlil it was bnrnt clean off, than have made the Inunblini^ confession von have jnst made. I am done with \on. \'on are nothinj; bnt a poor lick-spittle of a fel- I I 't i '■m I I" riir: o'ik ri i<\ o' noi .wv i-^y 1"'\\. aii.l \(Mi wc.iil.l ,ilIo\v him l(» (lrn, sour ])ri(lf. I l"iin PVctual hanitr to their own inlellectnai p-.o^ress. JVr- f--=^. . Ill I-. 1»IM ll'|,|- Cl..\>> « !• h:\\^> till' .stiiisl \\.i\ ti> .1 iu>t «.>tiiii.itt III llu- \.iIiU' <'l iq>iiiiiiii is 1(1 lu'^iu with ii \\i\ ;';.i(ii->i. lij^tiu, .iiul ;i !ii I., il ;is liiiu- shall show its (Hi.ilitii >. '', 'Mnr.s arc- likf lioisis in tin Lui that <.ii, i \- pi'i i( ucf can iiMal tluii ital woitli. I'litil \\c- an suit.' (.f lluiu \\r should hold tluni with lioth i\(.s njnii.' "I itlali-d llu- Uoiddi- ihion^h wliiih I was |)assin'^ l(» a wiuialiK- Inotlu-t. .wmI how son- I Kit at luarf. 'Jai-k/ s.;id lu. ' il is a ])arl o|' \onr idiualion, auA jiist as ncc'dliil as aii\ xt.ii max ni-riv r at C(dk-_!L;i-. il is uit-dt'ul that \oii i;*. t a know k-d_L;c- ot nun jiist as nnu h as to ^i an ar(|uaintancc- with hooks, and i\rn llu- hook ilscll". It is lUidt'nl that w r 1k- lanohl thai llu- w hok- work of .^lai-i- is not doui- llu- ni'inunt a ]iooi .siniui Inrns to (;,ii| thionu;h lailh in his S(»n, II is line \\v is jiistiliid and roi^iviii throniL^h Cliiist's inliiiiu i-uiit, and is in a .seiisr sanc-lifu-d ihroii'^h i'aiih in him. He has llu- IIo]\ Spirit as ihe s^a] ,,f and wiliuss to his lailh in Christ. Ik- has him rii^hl in llu- i- ni]i]i- ot" his liodv- and h\- llu- dixiiu- i-miijN within him lu- •111 ;( ii if ih ! ! ! i If 142 THK ()'i;ktir.\ o' HoTAXV r.AV is to work out his own dclivfrancc from the power of evil habits and passions and from association with vile persons. He is to orow in the ^race and in the knowl- edge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ''All we with open face heholdini^ as in a mirror the ijlory of the Lord are changed into the same ima^e from jjlory to i^lorN , even as hy the vSpirit of the Lord." " Tliere is first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear." The Christian life- is no "hop, stij), and jump" into complete holiness and oood sense. It is a growth, and the plant which the Lord has set out in his oanUn needs a lot of attiiitiou, frequent earth-stirrino; in the way of trials, afflictions, and sorrows, and it mav be, to be well watered with strong crviui^ and tears, as well as warmed and coaxed into life by close communion with (lod himself throui^h faith in Christ. " ' Xow look you here; it must be understood that all who* are saved bv .Urace throuL^h faith are saved to serve. vSaKalion by ^race does not make us masters, but bond-slaves. // ]• do not run the business, but tlu' Spirit of (iod in u.s -- ■■-*" '■ TIN-: DISCIIM.H CLASS '4.^ (Iocs it, and \vf haw to takf our place, and kci]) <>n st-rvin^ (iod with iv\(.icik'c and jj^odlx' iVar. What (iod in ^nal nicrc\- lias !L;i\cn ns \vc aiv to hand on to thr next man who has a like necessity. " ' And fnrther, my yonn^ friend, let me say to xon, -and bear it continnalK in mind, — the local chnrch is not a kind of S(»cial clnl), or mutnal admiration society, whose numbers meet re^nlarly to sit down to<;elher in lo\in.i^ conxerse, just like lovers, to coo and coo and coo like turtle do\es. That kind (»f thiiijLi mij^ht be \ery pleasiui^ to many, and a thinj^r to be de- sired, but I assure nou that there is neither time nor room for such ^affaw of sillx' nonsense. If man's condition in the other woild as a sinner sa\ed by t;race, is hol\ scrxice, as the book teaches, it does not hide from trs the truth that lie is to serve him in the temple of his body here. The redeemed man has a ministry of rei'onciliation t<» fulfdl and he serves best who suffers most for his Rcdeenur and I.ord. 'iMie man sawd by <.;;race throut^h faith is one of (iod's i.,>^reat arnn, lo\e-enlisti(l to i)Ut down all kinds of il 144 ''"'■• o'KkTrkN o' noTAxv hay V ■ h ! \ ivhfllion in liiinsclf as well as in otlKis, ICwiy man is a kini^doni in himself, and if he can rule himself well, he is in a fair way to j^oxern others. " ' "The weapons of oiir warf;ire are not carnal, hnt st)iritnal, and mi<;hl\ throu.i;h (iod," " I'o.- as many as are led hv the vSpirit of (iod are the vSons of Cod." Ihit we cannot at a sin^^le "lance see all these things. The operations of orace endure throu<,di life.'" Jack would and could sit with delight at the feet of any old servant of Jesus, even at the feet of "auld Ivlias Whitman, the oue-exed Methodist," who thoULjh poorly educated was rich in faith toward (Iod. It is said that, "He who makes two blades of ^rass to <;row where there was only one before, is a pid)lic bene- factor; how much more is he who o;ives momentum to a movement which will train men and women and fit tl:em to ljo out and li\e and work for (iod, and the jL^ood of their fellows." There was now in the church a nucleus of earnest, devoted, and inlelli^eut xouuj.; people known as "The Christian Disci- Till'; IHSCIl'I,!'; CLASS M.S pic Class/' and the time of their IcstiiiM was at hand. Christ's instrnctions tonchino offenses had been neglected hy those wdu; onj^ht to have known better, and in the most serious way tlie chnrch's visible existence was threatened. lint it would not be jndicions to raise the cnrtain too his^h ; snfficcittosax, thesi)iritof partx ism bei^an to manifest itself in the chnrch, revealino- how far men mioht oe^ awa\- from the spirit of the Master, and be narrow, jeal- ons, and vindictive. The root of the whole troid)le was the pastor's resignation. Those who were least friendly and hclpfnl before it had taken effect, were now his most attached friends and anxions to retain his services. The action or attitnde of the senior deacon on some tridin^ famil\- mattiT was reoarded as the occasion of the pas- tor's resionalion, and the disaffected ones placed the burden of the sin of sei)aration on the senior deacon. lie was in the opinion of many abont the only bit of sonnd timber in the entire rib-work of the ecclesiastical bark. la i .Ir 146 TIIK o'KUTIRX o' HOTAW HAV w\ i- I i^ ! (i! l-'or a series of years lie had been the ])ast<)r's most trusted friend, a liberal sup- porter, and a eaj^able adviser. Of course he was not absolutely free from fault, vet he was more than an ordinary Chris- tian and filled the office of a deacon well. The separation of pastor and people has were held to brin^- about tlu- deacon's expulsion and the '■<• \h TlIK DlSCirUK CLASS m; proccediniis coiitimtcd to an uiitiuK-lv ]i >ui- of the iiiolit. When sciisihlc peo- ple were tired out and had retired, the minority took a snap vote and expelled the deacon from office. They had the reins of j^^overnment for a time, until means were taken to reverse the vote and re-instate the deacon. On his re-instatement by more than a two- thirds majority, the minority retired, the distracted body had peace, and spiritual prosperity returned. If pastor and dea- con had been men enouj^h to meet to settle their differences as Christ instructed them, or if, havin<,r failed, they had set- tled it by arbitration, it would have pre- vented many unseemly scenes and an unholy strife. It is a o;reat pity that where no Christian i:)rinci])le is at stake, any jiastor should allow himself to be made the occasion of a division. The majority of our church quarrels are occasioned by the nes^lect of Christ's own explicit law tt)uchin,o- offenses, as laid down in Matthew eighteenth, and also in the fifth chapter. Jack Foster and the younj^ people in- h I' ! iri t . I4S THK o'KRTrKX (V HOTAW HAV stnicted by him stuck to the church. If there was a wrouo, atul if it uiust he ricrhted, it uiust first he proved, and theu riohted in Christ's own way. The dea- con must he re-iustated, dealt with scrip- turally, and if found at fault and recalci- trant, disciplined. There Jack stood until fully two-thirds of the people stood hy him ; and it was the moral salvation of the cause. While the agitation lasted, it was the " Christian Disciple Class " on a l)i.<. scale, with a sprinkling of r.nruly mem- bers. It was a painful, yet healthful ex- perience. " One of the needs of the averaoe man is an adecpiale idea of moral power. I\w people stop lon.o- enouj^h in the hurry of life to consider the fundamental truths of their relation to Cod and to their fel- low-man. IMany are surprised when they are told that man is a moral beino- in a moral universe. They are further sur- prised to learn that it is impossible to conceive of moral (government without the (y\ani of rewards and the inflictino of penalties. ( )blioration, duty, or whatever TH1-; DISCll'LK CLASS 149 yon call it, is a constant factor. Ijfc is a i)rol)ation. The orcatcr one's conscions- ncss of this fact, the larj^cr is the possi- bility of one's livin«; a rij^^ht life." Jack became a stndent at the Univer- sity and Divinity Hall and conld not give- the class the attention it merited, and so in th.e third vear of his colle-c conrse he had to close his connection with it. The members of the class gave him as ; parting gift three very nsefnl books, Thomson's "Land and the Hook," Fleming's " Mannal of Moral Philoso- phy " and his - Mannal of Philosophical Terms," and no better or more timely gift conld have been made him. The following inscription is fonnd in each of the three volnmes given to him by the class : CHRISTIAN DISCIPLR CLASS. Presented to Mr. Jack Foster as a small token of the class' gratitnde for the tni- tion received, and for the earnest labors pnt forth for their advancement morally and spiritnally, and as an Ivbenezer of the many ha]ij)y seasons s^xMit bv them as Bible students. M m I I 150 THK O'llkTlRX O' noTAXV HAV Prayinjj^ that his own soul iiiav be ever kept bnrninj^ with love to the vSavioiir, and that his labors may be ever l)lesse(l to the winninjr of souls to Christ, and (ioIi()t : W'liilc it (Intli >tu(ly to li.ive wli.ii it wmild, It (idtii l"or>,'i-t to do tlif tiiiiij,' it should ; And wiifii it li.itli tlu' tliiiij,' it Iiiintclh most, 'I'is won, iis towns witli fire ; so won, so lost. ''J'^HK niiivtrsity l)uil(lin<.js wt-rc vt-rv 1 ancifiil, and wt-nt back to the tiims of ''Zacharv Hoyd/' and the Middle Ao^s. The style was irothic and the walls fiie- stoiie, and many of the windows and doorways had cnrions stone eai\inos. There were four Conrts, fiiM the Divinity, second the Arts, the third. Law and Medi- cine, and the fotirth the Ilnnterian Mn- setnn, and beyond all the colk-oe i^reen, or park, which coxered many acres. In the fall of i860 there were about two thousand students iji attendance on classes, and the " humanitv," the most largely attended of all. On the north i5» i I i 4; f f i -,V : 152 TIM-: o'KkTlUN < )' HoTAW HAY I:: skIc of till- nnivirsily Minaivs, farthtr up IIi,i;h Slivel, ilure was a kind of private >tuvt will IV the proffssors resided, and it was the- custom after Jiayiuj^- a .i;iiiuca for iiialricMdatioii, to npair to tin- house ot the professor whose chis.scs one would enter, pa\ the class fee, and recei\e the class ticket for the session. The matric- ulation ticket entitled the student to the use of the library and the privile.i^e of xisitiui; the museum a certain ninnherof times dnriuiL; the sessi(»n. In Jack I'*o.ster's time the professors were: Latin, William Ramsa\ and his nephew (kor-c; in Creek, Kushin.^ton, hrother-iii-law of the poet Tennvson ; lo.i^ic and rhetoric, Robert Ihichauan, the .Inland old man ; moral philosophy. Dr. James 1- lemin- ; mathematics, P,lack- wood ; natural philosophy, William Th()ms..n, now kui^hted and uuide a lord; Ivni^lish literature, Prof. Xiehol. The students represented every relit^- lous denomination in the countrv, and as there was no religions test, all stood on an e(iual foolin-^ in the arts classes. Of course the students connected with the JACK AT TIIF. INI\ I'.RSnV .">.■» Mslablisliid Clnucli had s|Krial priv ik-ois in the hall of Divinity. It was a i^ctural (k'lioininalioiial iiii.\-ui), and Ihiu licial l(» the yoniiv; nnn tlKiiischts, and an idii- calion in itst-ll', i^ixini; nKiital hnadlh and a cosnioiKditan iVclinn. TIk' stndcnts nwu' not only di\i(k-d in R-li^ions thonojit and lilVlmt in political th()U.!L;ht also. TlKif wiiv 'iNtriis, and \\'hi«4S, an, and the Liberals and R-.dicals a red one, and all of the i>arti(.s had their stnmp or.itors. The w riler remembers a stinKnt, after- ward one of Canada's di.slin^^iiished idn- cators, a l-adino mind, not onl\- in chnrch conlroxtT.sy bnl also in the discussion of onr ])olitical affairs, takin^ jKirt in a col- K)^e political strn^iL;le. He .stood on the ancient stone stairway of Principal Ilar- clay's residence addressing; a crowd of blne-caj)s with a very small mixtnre of red ones, I'ein^ a i^ennine blne-nosf, la- gave a re^nlar Tnppeiian sjnnh. The 111 Jl r [If 154 Till' ..i;kii|;\ (»' ".orwY i; \v itils wfiv .1 iiK(l v\iili pi,.-sli().iicrs, wliifli tlK\ used Ml t!i'- niosi ifh ti\c- \v;i\, ;in'l tlif iiiiInAo princip.il -lid his l)^^st t<> shield his [aw and pa' the pfas, ,in at- tended th* nniversity ii that tini . 'iMie elielioM of a lord ixetoi was 111 e\ent, and an occasion ot ^^-^reat ixeiti- ment, developinL; a lot of latent oiatoiieal l)()\ver and cruel misehief, and general! \ lea\ injr in its train lorn ^a- lunts, hroki n heads and hiack eves, and iliiiios oetui- ally in a very dilapidated condition. It is said that men ;nv sadl\ dixided in their rcli<,do(is opirdons and show mm h narrowness and hi-otrx, htit what a]»ont l)oHtics? It would seem as t' .m-h the -a\ a;4ainst an earnest, ■-iinj)le piet\' an. L iiristi n individualit-, . While this political ])anjai ' um it hurled defiance at professor he j a uewspa])er editors, and everx i !\ ei- srr- m ^»m JM r, AT 1 . 1 Ksrrv I .>.^ It t .k tin r \ llW\ k-c f\'( t SI 1" ill s. (Ml (>1 tin 1' A . ' ial ])ri\i- tini t iiii(>\ (1 \\oii\ ^i 'h A niwl soiiK |)ti>i)k' ill " il of uif opposite nIkkIt (iI \ 'itliotit cause- or icasdii and n.as(iii, llu\ would \cll a >li \viiid«)\vs, and tear do ^ and turn <)\cr a poliicinan inu 'lu'v miscaU'iilati'd l. tl- ii_;li ud scnirilN, and a valiant coniin-i It o., >ii/cd and iiiarclu'd oH' to tc ! k-i!]), to ajiptar IkI'oiv tlu- Iiailii' u\t ntoniino, at an lioiir wluii tluv <>' -111 . have htcii at 'k' Hires, to have Hi « of the ordinary course, and a sti iininatiou fee to pa\ before lil^rtv could i)e lej^a'ued. vSuch students returned to their classes uiuch snl)duet to work up entlur-i ism for " ( )1(1 Tam." ill I Pf.lK5i JACK. AT Till-: rMVKKsrrv 157 The old ^cnlkinan was satt-j^uardi. tl iV the lialhcrt Ucaivrs, llie niai^^ist rates, the parish luitiisttis, and the faetiUx , eti-. Ilr w '.s robed in his rectorial j^own, an old blaek ra.i;- handed down from the ''Middle A»;es," which " >()ked as if at any mo- ment it mit^ht, ihron.^h exli uie a.i;e and frailty, fall to pieces. In tlu- oinn air, and also in the church edifice-, the old o()\vn was a j^reat anno\ance to him, as it was a noticeable misfit. He deliwrrd a sensible, helpfnl, and ehxinent addr<.-»-. It was a j^ax- time and a training; tor the after-life political warfare. U had not mnch other valne, as ihr whole woik of a lord rector was to i^ixe the- inan- onral address. ( )f conrse if lei^islation were retpiired and the lord rector slionld be a member of the _oti\ eminent, he conld malerialK aid the nniwrsity. Rectorial eleitions were manaj^ed afur the old Roman style, and the electoral lists were madr np accordin;^ to nations. ( )f that crowd of hard-luadnl. brave- hearted, ambitions xonni; men, onl\- a verv few went np t'or final examination, and the M. A. deijrif. .Some who did ;^o III $ ■1» >n m If l;» 5 ! i"! 158 THK o'KRTIRN o' HOTANV HAV up and passed with honors went no fni- tlicr, as their finances stood in the way and shut them out from the i)ossession of the coveted parchment. The oreat ma- jority of the students were tile sons of l)oor, struo^ojiiio, hut respectable and Cod- fearing people. Duriui;^ the cnrricnlum they had a hand-to-hand fi^ht with j^rim poverty and all the discomforts incidental to it in the life of a <,M-eat city. It is true there were hursaries or sch«»larshi])s, hut the competitors must bear a privilej^ed name, or C(»me from a certain district, and belono; to a particular denomination of Christians. The bursaries were not open to all comers who had character and showed an aptitude for stiulv. The order of thinj^s in the collej^es of the Xew World is in advance of that in the Old, and the youth of that cotintrv have very much for which thev should feel thaidd'ul. Higher education is with- in the reach of the i>oorest, and the hum- blest and most obscure may asi)ire to a university traiuin<,r and easily reach it. In some instances the theoloj^ical course was concurrent with the arts course, but JACK AT THl", INIVI-USITV 150 llic two tdi^ftlior is too stift* an airant't- iiK-nl and one not to l>f 'lf>in.'(l. ll wonld l)c better to lake nioii time and do more tliinkinLj and less eram. The systmi of eram is a cnrsi-, and the " ])ony " a vile delnsion and a snare, the wreeker of «^()o(l minds and all manly prineijile. IJetter fij^ht it out from diteh to ditch, and die bravely in the last trench, than be wholly dependent on a " i)ony " to ride to academic honors. Onr hero had to drop his mission work, as in his case the two conrses concnrrent was nnaxoidable ; bnt tilings have since chanj^ed and a xonnj; man now has a chance to do honest, thonj^htfnl, helpfnl St uly in all departments of a colle,L;e c arse. Jack's ti\e sessions at the nni- versit\' and the theological hall were pleas- ant and jirofitable, and arc remembered with <^ratefnl appreciation, thon|L;h the>' were c\ceedint;l\' trying to him on ac- connt of inadecpiatc jireparation. I'or eiijht lon,i; years he had an nphill battle to fi<;hl, and dnrin<;- all those years he had to der.\- himself in man\- ways and of many thinj^s, that he mit^ht reach iul I:' i^o THK o'l-.kTrkx o' noT.wv isav the- fiid of his course-, riiysically Ik- had '>"t a laroc fn,ul u. chaw upon, and financially !)'- had a snialk-ronc. In the commercial world Ik- had sur- rendered a fine position with oood pros- i>trts, for the sake of a colleoe'ediK^alion and a missionary life in India. Hut he liad his Father's care. He was provided with a tutorship to two hovs attendino the orammar school, who were sons of "a fonner employer. C.od's children al.so were o(,od toliini, and hy them theroureatl\ re<;ret that onr collej^e professors fail so often to warn yonn^ men a<;ainst bnrninj^ tlie candle at both ends, by unreasonable and unseasonable habits of study." But asCrannie l-oster said : '' Bonj^dit wit is the best wit of all." Latin was no favorite of Jack's, but he had a passion for (ireek and Hebrew, loj^nc, rhetoric, Ivnn^lish literature and moral i)hilosophy. Thouoh not a renins, he had pluck, and was a ])l( It 162 Till". o'KRTlkN ()' I'.oTANV HAV and wrono-doiiijr vvcrc scMthiiiu aii;l iikt- cikss. He was a ^nvat adiiiiivr of Doc- tor Andrt-w ImiIIlt, priiiK-d with his thc- uloiry, and at the time was re^rarded as standing- niidwav between the eontendin*,^ parties in the denomination, the hi»di and dry Calvinisl and the semi-IVla^ian Arminian. Hv the oj)posin,u parties he- was often misnnderstood and misrepre- sented, and so were the stntUtits who JACK AT Till- INIVKKSITV l6^ synipathized with liiiu in his doctrinal views. vSonic entered scliool with thtir o\nu- ions fixed, ])rei)ared to spend their last hreath for their ehcrislKd theoioi^ical ideas. Tlu- principal nc\cr sonj^dit to thrnst his views npon the stndenls, Ik- laid down principles, he snstaincd thini by scriptnral aro;nnicnts, and allowed the stndents to draw their own conclusions. All that he recpiired of a yonni^ man was the evidence that he was understood and that he had ])rofited by his instructions. In systematic the()lon;y all he demanded was a decent, honest attempt to repro- duce in essay form the std)sl,ince of each of his lectures. Once a weel these were read before the class and criticized. The student had to <,nve the princijxirs views and not his own, and the failure to do this often led to ludicrous and painful scenes, and even to a desertion of the scliool. The "sons of the heather," men from the Hi.nhlandsand Islands, would advance their extrenu- Calvinism, and it mie or silly spiritualizinjr did not meet with his approval, and he was death on ad- jectives. He ever demauded facts and princii)lc.s and clearness of statement. Many of the younj:^ men most popular with the conoreoations were the least successful in the class-room. He would say to such students when called upon by him to read, ''(;ive ns the l)oncs of the subject and leave the stulTnur until von are called upon to preach to a con- <;re^'^ation." On such occasions the cssavist had to JACK AT TIIK rMVFRSlTV i(y. j;o to till- ixtivmc tiul of a larj^i- liall and road to the professor and llu- (.I.ins at the otlit-r fiid. Tla- rtadrr liad t«> iin- aj^ine liiiiisc-lf biforc a coiij^ri'^alion whose attention lie must secjue. Pains were taken to inslrnel liini that in ad- dressinj; an audience he nurst he,i;in in such a lojie or j)itch of voice as to reach the most remote hearer. 'I'he voice nnist he leveled at his head and the e\e fixed upon liim. In speaking-, the throat must he sp.iivd, and the teeth and the lips hrou>;ht into play if there was to he dis- tinct enunciation and an avoidance of ministerial sore throat, (iesture must he natural, and hut little of it. The stu- dent was<;iven to understand that if he made suitahle preparation for the pulpit he would have somethino- to say and the laui^uajre wherewith to clothe or eNi)ress it, and the naturalness of his stvle of ad- dress would constitute its acceptahilily and ])ower. Jack Foster freciuently had the honor of preach i no for the venerahle doctor ; so often did he preach that he was regarded by .some as his protvoi. In after years a m, l66 Till.; o'lCRTlRX ()' HOTANY MAY (liacoii said of liim in intr()(liiriii<; liiin to a hn^^v aiidit'iicc on an annivt-rsarv occasion, " Fricns, this bird is oot o' a ;^Mi(lc nest." A compliment to the prin- cipal. ill V i I ■I hM ■m .;^jrA_/L CHAPTKR Xll nixxM-: AM) rNk)N coikts Not bein^ uimitin,^ world to turn tliine cyt- And j)aii>c awlulc from Icarninj,' to l)e nnI^c. MANY of the -UkKiiIs in ;ittciulancf at llic uiiivci>ity with tlif odsjkI ministry in view hainiiii- Conii wa> in ilsrlf a whole town. Tin- ri.s|Hrtal)k-, tln' riff-raff, the vi- rions, and ihi' vaj^ahond classic .;11 IkkI ihcir r«.i)r(.sfntati\es in the it, mnifiits of Hinnic Conrt. It was a (inadran^K-, and coiisistrd of front, mid, and two hack and twosidf toiicnKiit^. Tin.- rii^ht hand side tiiK-nirnl was the most I)oi)u1aid : "Time and ai^ain my heart has thnmix-d a,L;ainst m\- ribs as if to hreak out of prison, and mv blood has rnn cold as I h.ive stood bel\>re '4 I m H •mi m \ 170 THK o'KRTI'RX O' lioTAXV UAV i' I m 'I ' ; I a door knocking for admittance and waiting; a rcsj)onsc. I did not know what the open door niij^ht reveal, t»r how to receive the revelation v)f hmnan degra- dation and misery other than in the spirit of compassion. In tiiat court there were places of vice, shebeens, and thieves' dens. It was a work of lime to piaci- them, and tlien to enter tluni in appa- rent i<.{;norance of their chaiackr with a view to spiritnallx- aid their inmates. The inmates nevi r deceived me nor made any attem])t to do so; thix had never to he charj^ed with their sin, bnt were always first t<> acknowkd^e it and to express their snrprise at beinj; soniL;ht ont as worthy of Christian notice. .\moniL; a peopk- so huddled lot^ether it was re- freshinj.;- to meet with a resj)ectal)le, ( lod- fearinii family, wlm wire honsi-d there throiij^h force of circnmstances, and, it n'i^ht he, in the ])ro\ ideiice of (iod to ser\e as htacon lii^hfs amid tlu- snr- ronndini; darkness and danimr." Jack was introduceij to the Uinnie Court folk Ity Mr. Morrison Smith, a i^ood Christian and an exi>(.rie.ic(.- lUNNnc AND rxioN corui's 171 sioiiarv, a brotluT <>f lla- aullior of "Tlit- IVavl (>' Days." Il was a day lo Ik- u- incnil)crc(l. " Wc wire visiliii]:; in llic sick- IriK- iiKiit or tlu- worst pari of iIk- court, and had climbed up to the fifth flat, iiKaniii.u to \k<^\u work thtiv, and then to work our wav down, thertby j^iviui; the tenants notice of our jnesence aniono;^ iheni. In tlie dim lii^ht of the lono h)1>hy we oroped oiu' way, drew n]> at a door, and knocked for admittance. It was, as we afterward learned, tlie home of Dui^ahl Cunn, a Skve Hii^hlaiider and a Roman Catholic. Mrs. (iunn answered the door, and Mr. .Smith said to her: '" M\ i^ood woman, I ha\e come to in- troduce to \<>u rii\ vouuil;- friend, wlio is U) labor from lliis time on as missionary in the district, and we would like to ha\e a bit talk with you on tin snbject if re- ligion if you luue no ])aiticular objec- tions.' "Mrs. (lUnn fared n]> all of a sudden, and ]ioor .Smith ftmnd out that lure was no ordinarv t;un, but ;i veritable bbinder- buss. 'I doo not want ou\- o' \(>ni re- -^i' 1 k I 1 t t ''i ■■» 1 !! ■ !;I i 172 Tin-: ()'i:kti-kx o' ijotanv hav lajshoii, and diiina mc-d Uk- line your \\- lajslion, and none o' you arc lac tarkcn ni\ tor (ir (ae potlicr me \vi' yoiir rclajshon. Wc liac oor ain rdajslion. Vonr ivlaj- .shon be o' Ihf 'IVtvil liinisc-r and so it is.' '"I'liasc, my oood woman, what is yonr rclajslion ?' ''Ikr response was, 'Tlie ver\ Teevil liimsc-r is in yon ; ^ano awa' frae t'is tor a' mine, and dinna pollute tae place \vi' yonr heretical presence.' ''Smith fired np at this, and said: 'My woman, if the 'IVevil he in me there be seeven teevils in yon,' nnawares that he was mimickini; her. "jMst at this moment Dnnald, who was sitting; b\ llie fire smokin",'^, jnniped np from his seat with a yell, picked nj) an axe, madi- U>y the do(.r, and rnslud at vSmith. Dns^ald was rayino niad and foamin>^ ;ii the month and had mnrder in his e\e. it was reall\- ])l(>odcnrdlin.L; to sec that infuriated Ilieland man after poor Smith with an a\c, aiul Smith j^o- in- down the lon^' stone >tairwa\s, three »lcl)s at a time. When he was at the court le' il his whee/in<^ could be heaid HINNIK AND TNION ColKlS 1 73 away up in the fomth sloiy, as Ik- was imicli afflicted with asthma. The extv- tioti to keep a *;()(>(i way ahead of the (lUim and out of the way of the axe, and the exciteuieut, ahn()>t cuivtl hiui of hi> distressiu<4 complaint. He was, at any rate, a different man when I rejoined him in Ar|^\le Street. "Up in the f«)nrlh story I had to hold mv i^round and >tand to m\ i^nns like- a man. I was not mixed up in the ([uarrel, and made up my mind tt) hraw it onl. Dnj^ald was now one of m\- ehart^e in liinnie Court and I would have to meet him often. He retuiiied from his unsuc- cessful chase, demandiui; of nu-, 'Wha' l)e\-ou? and what dae \ou doo? and what wae doo \ou stand at m\ tor.-*' 1 said: 'Mr. ('.unn, I am a hrolher man, and haw couu' to make a frimdh call and to .ocertaiu who li\\> lun , and aKo theii rrli<^ion> profc-ssiou, and with uotK- sire to inlt rferi. with \oiir vrliiL^ion. or lo robxou of it. hut if po^^ihle to a>s',>l \«)n to Oct a little ni'i;i<'l"l'K\ ()' linTAXV r.AV :>.i " ' Vts, >ir," \\;is in\- r j)l\-, " ' WVII, j)r it known t.n- xou noo wha' k'C'ws here in t'is hoose, and tal we doo not want yonr nlajshon. Mt- and my wuinnian l)e weel salisleid wi' oor ain relajshon, wliieh l)e tlic- llniu- rdajslion, and no tae relajshon o' an apo>;aU' pay- j)le.' " I said to him, 'Xow, Dnnrald, between onrselves here, is there any trm.' religion in rmniino after that decent ohl oentle- man. armed with an axe, takino- the name of (iod in \ain, and nttrrino all kinds of i)rofanities? Du.oald, he honest with > onrself ; is that the spirit of the relij-ion of the Lord Jcsns Christ? vSnrely, that is not \«>nr religion. Dn.t^ald, are xon a Christian?' His answer was, 'I pc a trne Christxan, and a' m\ pa\ pk- he trne Christ) ans ytars and years jnt'ore we htar o' vonr relajshon.' * Well, Dnoald, I am a Christian, and the Christ who mirst savi- \on and nu\ if wr are excr sa\ed at all, h.ts said l<, lii> f(.Ilowers ev(.-r\ wlurr, " I'.less and enrse ii..t. K(.\f xonr inemies." Xow, I)ii-;d(l,l)e honest with Nonrsrlf, does that mean ;irm \onrseir :SL. IJINMI-; AMI INION COIKIS I 75 with an a\c, a iniir(ki<)iis lialelift, and run altvv that old i^cnllcniaii, who only has Noiu' ;^()o(l at hiavt, lo slud his hlood? I ka\c' it to \t»nr o\\ r. j^ood sense. Now \)v hoiKst ; did jisns, llic vSa\ ionr of sin- nets, nuan \ on to do an\' snch wicked ihini;?' "'No, no, no," said Dn^ald, 'he pe no tat kine o' person whatever. M\ plnid was np. 'I'a aidd man insnlted in\ woo- nian, an<1 las a' apoot it. It was wr»)n!L^ o' nie ta doo it, bnl it was na' rieht o' him tae insult ma wooman in her ain house.' " I talked him into a ([uiet mood, and the storm sul>si(k-d, ;ind wc wi^n- ever afur friends, and I'viendK. .\ tnssk- of this kind made me M-.irn for some ([uiet restin^-jtlacr, and I found it in thi- home i.f a ]^o(.i Iri^li widow, ,; Mithodist, who li\(.(l in out' ()f the attics of the fioiit tenenii nt. vSlu was < \oi th-of-luland woman; had two soii^ i'.in;- " i w ind- ini4 \arns) "If ^jmnK f^r ilu- waipers. She was a "-oikI C'lni'-tian woman, kiuw 1 * I i i7<^> Tni ()'i;i<'i"iK\ ()' ijoTAxv I'.av 1!.^ U m licr I')il)lf wril, ;iii(l ]()\c(l praxrr and Christian tVllowsliii). Slic was (kli^lilcd lo have nif call, and to hear nit- read and cxi)lain ihr Scriptiuvs and have- ])ra\!.r with liir. It was an oa.sis in the- desert. " W'lun l)adl\ tronblfd with tlic bines after \isilint; in (he- side' te-ncnieMit, I wonhl qniet]\ sli]. awav to ,sil at the' iVe-t (.f the- • •Id widow, listenins^ to her rehearsal of the- Lord's dealint^s with her. Her spirit of Christian hopefidne-ss and valnahle- ohse-rvatioiis i^reatly cheered nie-, and afle-r ha\ in^^ prayer toj^vtlur I wonld set out to tanie' the- 'wild l)e-a>ts' in the- side te-nenienl. In all niv contaen with llie- dwellers in IJinnie- Conrt, I ne\er was the- snhjee't of an unkind remark or ai-t. M\ poor, feeble', imperfect efforts to aid them Wefe- api)reciated, and the- peoj'le made hie' to con.stilt with me on man\- matters outside of my p.irlictdar mission amonj^ lluni. m the otlier world I hope to meet with some (.f the IJinnie C; nrt folk to wliom I minisle'red." vSnch was his ministerial apjirenticc- ship, of ])rice'ass \alne, no donbt, in the battles to be fon^ht in after lit'e-. -Mkf- HI t ' 1 III 17'^ Till. ()'i:K'n k.\ ()' lioTAW I'.w :«!.: ;i' I I Clnistian work in those ])lacis (k- iiiaiuk'd tlircf ll)in<^s iiol too coiiinion ; "(".race, j^rit, ami .miniptioii." In c\cr\- (lay I'ai;^lish, s^iuiiptioii is coiiinioii sciisc. Mr. I'\)Ntcr luis said : " In ni\ \ isitation I liaw often fotnid niystll" insick' of a d\vcllin«^ where the one thinji^ in nrj^aney was a manly retreat, and to make it in snch a way as to meet the same par- tus aiL^ain, not as the eoncpierc-d but as the vielor. In my populous parish I had to he jioliceman, jihysieian, nurse, preachei, teaclier, and i>eacem:d li^ail, for an\- sake.' 'The wicked llee when no iiKin pur- sueth : hut the lij^httDUs are hold as a lion.' " Tliere were SaMiath and week-niiMii services in I'iuuii (.'ourl. In the uiid- leueUKut a room was uhi imkh' fr* iii -i r.iNMi'. AM) iNioN corurs 179 decent woman, whose fallui \\a> an elder of one of llu' elnuelies. This room \\a> uenerallv well ruled, with asnuinv Roman Catholics as rvolesta.nls in altuulance. I»V'W of those who attended ewr enlerid a place of worship, bnt all of tluin weie reach to altmd a religions service in a neiL^hhor's house. In connection wilh the service in Watson's there was mnch Messing, and it was a real i)leasure to minister to the ])c<)ple. ''Scenes were witnessed in my visita- tion that chilled me t«» the marrow and made me .shndder, hnt I fonnd it indiiic not to show il. Amon^ snch characters as I had to cnconnter day after day, I discoM-red the need of jmsh, tact, and principle, if m\ labors were not lo pro\e em]>t\ and barren." The \alne of tact is a]>t tt) lie over- i.ioktd in ilealmi,^ with men indixulnally or in the a^i^i^re'^ate. and there is an in- rlin.ilion to lrn>t zeal and readine.^s ot speech to carry one throu.^h. Ihit lack- ini,^ tad the Christian worker will often lind hii is(lf on .a dan^erons coast amon;^ the l)reaker>, and he is likely t(» wreck >0 Bii f.,i. iSo TIIH o'lKTlkN ()' ItolAW IJW liimsilf completely as to spiritual itsLfuJ. IRsS. It has Ikvii wtll said : " Taltiit is soiiu-- lliiii.i;, l)iit tatl is cvci vtliiiij^r ; tiUnt is si rii)us, sober, j^naw. and rcsiKclahk-, l.ul tart is all that and more too. It is not a SLVciitli sense, hut the life of all th.e fixe. It is an open eye, the (piiek ear, the .in, from timi- tu innc, w.ilki'd imKin;^ mi'ii. nnd in;Hlc llioir < i.nuiii^Mnii felt in till- he. Ill .iiul -^diil nf iliv i luninniif^t liciitr. \ M()X(i iIk- I'xjKTitiices cncdunlind _^~\ ill r.iniiii- Court was the fiuitral of one Tain Wateison, which Mr. I*\>st«. i (kscrihes as follows : "Tain was a horseshocr hv trade and the support of a decent, hard-v orkiiit^ widowed mother. Two of his sistirs were niakin<4 a hrave efTort to suj)port themselves, hut all 1i\ed nnder the (MU roof. Widow Watcison had seen hetlcr ;lit ill the Sciiplmxs, and ur|L;iii<^ thcni to settle the matter of thiir own relation to (iod while the heart was ten- der, the mind thoughtful, and the time opportune. " I pra\c-d for the widow, the sorrow- inj^ famil>-, and the relatives and ntij^h- hors, and that (iod would make eaeh one of them his own for both worlds, this and the next, fillino; them with hea\enU- comfort and peace. The service to me was tryinj^ in the extreme, hut what came after was still more so. "Oat-cake, cheese, sliorl-hread, wine, biscuits, and whisky were l)r()U<;ht out in accordance with country custom, but it was a new thin<4 to me. A douce- (soft) spoken elder of the kirk came over to me where I stood and whis])ered in my ear in a winnin.i^ way, ' Von wtill kindly j^ie thanks for the mercies." Here was a trial. I had been several years a y'v^'uI abstainer and a temperance worker, and I was called n]>on at a rcli,!Liious service to ,L;ivc thanks f(»r whisky. What was I to do? Was I to refuse to j)ray or was I to sanction that which I had }>ledued IS4 TIIK O'KRTIRX ()' HOTANV HAY i I :.-M luyself to {liscoiintenancc? Was I to ac- ciiowledj^re to the Alinij^hty that whisky is one of his jrood creatures? I made a coinproniise and prayed : " ' n Lord, sanctify and bless this afflic- tive providence . thine to one and all, and if thou canst bless what we would now use to the refreshin": and nourishiuL'- of our mortal bodies, be pleased to do it, as we ask all in the name of Jesus our Lord. Amen.' " Whisky was then offered to me and (piietly refused; then wine, and declined also. It proved to be the best temper- ance meetino; I ever conducted. It was not what I said, but what I did not say that made my testimon>- effective that ,1,,,. " Another experience he recounts as fol- lows : "In an adjoininy^ tenement of the same court, on the crround floor, there was another poor widow who was not so comfortable. She also had a son and two daucjhters. but the son, a j^ood t'adcs- uinn, thouci^h alive mioht have been better dead for aiii^dit of help or comfort he was ADVKNTrkKS IN Till'; CoiKTS iS;; to his niollier at ctrtain scas<»iis. IK- was an expert tradcsinan when he was sober, but that was not often, or for ver\ lonji^ at a time. He was a hard drinker and so was " H'u^ ^hlrv," one of his sis- ters. He was known as ]Vv^ Jim, the snab (shoemaker). When he j^ot on a spree he wonUl .sell his elothes, iiis seat, and kit of tools, and even .t^o .so far as t«> dra_<^ the bed from mider his widowt-d mother and pawn it to <;ct whisky. 'When sober,' she .said, 'there conld not be a better .son than Jim Thomson.' " He was a well-bnilt, fine-look inij man, and stood over six feet in his stoekin^s, had a fair edneation, and was a threat reader. He had read dei.stical books, and was a fatalist in his relitjions ideas. ( )ne day, at his mother's recptest, I made a visit jnst when he was sobering of! and settlino: down to work. vShe tlunij^ht and ha(' prayed too that (lod wonld nse me to aid her boy to a better life. I fotnid him on his seat. He had been to the shop and had <^ot ont a job, and was 1)nsy lasting a pair of men's jj^aiter.s. As I entered the room, I .said : I > I I m ii IP:, ii !li 'm III I'l'i i: ■ I ii i )• lS6 THIv o'KRTrRN d' HdTANV HAV "'I am olad to ste you ai voik aiui yourself aj^ain, Jim. 1 am surprised that a mail of your years, iiuellit^eiice, and ^^eu al oood sense, and after all your rcadiuL;, should ^ive way to sueh a vile ha!)it, hriu'^ino misery to yourself ami your poor old mother and all coucenied. Jim, like a man, L;ive it up alt()<;ether , be a man and a Christian and a credit and a comfort to your widowed mother.' " ' It's a' very weel,' said he, 'for you to talk ; you were born ^ude, and hae never been a drinker, and vou ken naetliin<>' aboot the power the drinkinjj;- habit has o'er a man. I tell you I canna j^ie it up alto;4cther, and it's useless for me to trv. It's constitutional wi' me. liodmadeuie this way and has <,n'en me a tempera- ment that demands the drink. Had he meant nie to be a sober man he w')uld hae i^i'eii me a different oro;ani/atiou, and I would hae been a so])er man like your- sel', and also a relecjLj^ious man.' " My rei)ly was, 'Jim, if \our reason- iui^ is to hold, how is it that you are .sober and not drunk to-day? Is it not because you have f;ot satiated and y(>nr ?cr. -Tmtjma^JiP iMi^^^tfomk^i 'i ADVKNTlKr.S IN Till-; COIKTS 1S7 funds cxliauslcd ? He honest now, did yon ever make a deeent, determined eflort to j;i\e u\) tile drink? Did xon ever sei- the evil of the habit and how nou are killin<4 \()nr jioor mother and hrin<;in<^ down her j^ray hairs with sorrow to the j^rave? Did ytm ever hnnd>ly aeknowl- edjLje yonr sin and yonr weakness to Ahni<>;hty (rod, re(|nestin^ him ii. his Son's name to pardon yonr sin and ])nt awa\ vojir unilt ? Did \<»n e\er ask him to sive yon the will power to say no and hold to it in the honr of temi)tation ? ' " He confessed that he had not. I connseled him not to .saddle his sin on the Lord nntil he had in faith sonj^ht his aid and had been denied it. I read and prayed with him, hnt he remained a fatal- ist. Me eonld do nothin_y;, and it was no nse trxins.^. I desired to know if (iod wonld last the j^aiters for him withont the n>e of his own will, jnd^nicnt, .skill, qood taste, and muscnlar power. In re- ply he said : " ' The cases are no paradel. I canna mak' mysel' different frae what Cod has made me.' t f| J '■ lift! '• i'UiU 11 j! iss Tiir; ()'i;i' hotaw hav '"Jinr I iiKiuind, Mid yon v\\r ask (i<)«l in alUariKstiK'Ss to make you dif- iVivut? Did yon c\cr really wish to he- dirtViciit?' 1 kt'l him uilli a sad heart, >tt ho|)in.<4 for the In.st." Mrs. I)claiie\-, an Irish Roman Catho- lic widow and ln.r dan.L;hter lived in one of the houses on the ground floor of the mid-tenement. She was regarded as a bigoted Roman Catholic, and Mr. I-oster was warned not to go near her ; if Ir- did it might Kad to serious tronhk'. This information led him to hold back for a time, but his conscience was uneasv the while. Tin IV came a day when he was ])nt on his metal. He sa\s : " I was passing the door which stood a l)il ajar on m\- way upstairs to the Wat- ersons'. I could see the old lady l)usy at the wash-tub, and the daughter beside- till- window busy sewing, and both of tluiu saw nw. It seemed nn-an and cowardlv to pass the door without at least saying Miood-moruing, Mrs. Drlanew' I made a halt, pushed the door o])en a little more, and said : '( lood-morning, orauuie; I see yon are 1)usv at the tul).' ^i .\i)\i:N'riki:s in iiiI'. coiuis iSi) " '( lood-inaniini;, siir ; sluuv wc 'avc to do it, for tluix- would he no li\ iiii; fur till' loikcs of 1' '.' "'May I roiiK- in for a iniiiulc or two to liavo a little talk with you and vour daui^litur? ' " ' Sliurc, sur, you coidil do u/. no ^ood wliatfvcr by ;ui\ i.f yourc talk, as \ou and oursclvc-s an- not of the sanie n- laijon/ "'Cirannif, let nie • "li ul von tlure is but one true reli^i > of ihe Lord Jesus Christ.' '''vShure you are rii^hi in that, sur.' " ' Do you, jL^ranuie, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as the onl\ vSa\iour of sin- ners ? ' " ' liless your sowl, why should I n(»l? vShure I would be a luulhen if I did not belaive on him. I have the fa\ th and I am a praxin*:^ woman.' "'Well then, grannie, I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and love him, and prav to him; mi^ht 1 not be allowed to enter and have a little talk with \(tu about oui blessed Lord and the love of (lodtous in him ? ' ! '-I pv Pis •>' ;i:;'* V! ii 'liiil lyO TIIK o'l-KTlKN (>' HOTAXY HAY "' l'\i\lli ami it" it ix.' that you aiv ;>()- iiijj^ to talk ahow t \<»u nia\- cdihl- in and wclconu-.' ''I entered, stated myself hy lla- door, bade them j^o on with their work and not to allow my presenee to hinder them in their dnlies. I read to them the third chapter of John's (iospel and j^ave a sim- ple rnnninj^^ comment on what was read. I had some pleasant conversation on tlu- plan of salvation, the lovin*,^ almi^htv vSavionr, llic one mediator between (lod and man and the only Saviour of sinners. Both listened most resi)ectfulh . 'And now, <,Mannie, as we have <;()t alon_L;- so fat nicelv in our talk, would you have any objections to j()inin<.; me in a word of prayer to the livinj^, lo\in<>- Jesu ' " ' None in the world, sur,' " We knelt together on the sanded deal floor and talked to Jesus himself. I opened my heart to him in threat ten- derness, and prayed him to bless our con- verse, and that he would bless the widow and her orphan dauL;hter, and that he would make them his own true followers in tliis life that it mioht be well with 0\ ai)Vi;nti'ki:s in Tin coikts 191 tlK'in in iIk lilV to loiiic. WIk'Ii \vi- k.m' Irutii our kiK't.s tlit- old lady caiiL;lit my liaiid in holli of Iris, sa\ iii;^ : " ' Voii 'a\c done- iii\' poor old sowl <;ood, lliis Messed iiiarniii]L;. Von 'a\e, shnrt'. The i^ood (iod Mess \»)U fur a perfect oiiitlemaii, and llie fnrst wan 'o Nonr soil thai e\er canu- into in\' howse and l)elia\ed as yon lia\e done to-da\. Now, mind yon ne\er pass nix iloor w iili- onl spakinj^ lo me, for a word will alwavs be welcome. May the j^.uul Okk] bless yon ever wid his smile and how Id yon up in the path ove rii;hteonsness I ' •'It was for me a victory; (iod be praised. Others had annoxed and in- sulted the old lady, wt)rryin^- her about ])nr«;atory, confession, aI)solution, be X'irj^in Mary, and the saints, but had ne\er addressed themselves to tin.- citadel of the heart, and so had had the door closed against them. It is mneh belter to talk on the things about which we are aj^reed ; our differences will be reached .soon enoUiLjh, and if we ha\e .set out rioht we will then be the better able to deal with them. Xo doubt, as workers, ill 19-2 TUl' (j'KKTrRX u' HOTANV HAY Ik* * |ii 1' i;.i II;! *.-!. oliKis had /.tal and talent, bnt tlicy were laikin}; in tact. I felt I had a ri^ht to praise (tod for enablinj^^ me to read to and talk with and pray for that very bij^oted Roman Catholic wo- man. " Sometimes I had to step in be- tween fio;hlinj^ women. The fi*rhi j;enerally be};an with the tonj^Jie, then it came to l)lows, screams, and a general nproar and cries of 'mnr- der.' A fi^ht by degraded women is a sad spectacle. To overmaster snch demanded forethonoht, will power, and self-crncifixion. A slKMii; hand and a loving heart conid work wonders with the most dej^raded of them. On the most tryinj;^ occasions I never nttered an nnkindword; bnt the look of my eye was cnouj^h for the most violent and wicked of them. The cast of the eye wonld make them slink away ont of siiim?f^s^am!^^eSf*!im!v^s^^7.mi9ii Al)\ I.NTrUKS IN Till. Col R IS I (>3 screams and sliotils of, "Mnnkr, .nurd' , ni-u-r-d-t-r !" " When I readied llie l.uidiii«^^ I found a nniiil)er of women in dislialiille, and two of them c n.i,M,oed in a hand-to-hand encounter and rij^liliiiM lik^- men. Thi short-^Dwn sleeves were rolled np. the hair drawn back and drawn nj> into a tii^ht coil as a ])recantionarv measure. They wen in jq:rips and pnminelinj^ each other in a most fearful fashion. One of them had a badly swollen face and a black eye; the other was bleed ''ijr pro- fusely and was covered with bites and scratches, and had her short j>own torn to tatters. One of them was a real \ iraoo, a raven in,«,^ wild beast. I walked np to them coollv as if nothinq- unusual was <,M)ino; on, and quietlv whispned into the ear of the wild woman : " 'Mrs. I) , I am surprised to see a woman like \ (in eno;aqed iu a scrap of this kind, I always tlioufrht \ou a woman of .sensi-, and that you had enough self-re- spect to keep you from eno-ai^inq- in such a de^nadinor performance. Xow, ]>lease, .qive over for your own sake and for the N ni rff :j^%i.f^««M.« _ .•« -5 1 1« (i* «£lPiflE. 194 '''"'■• o'KUTrUN <>' luyiANV ItAV n? 41 P m % :l J'!, peace and ^ood name of the neij^hhor- hood.' " They lehixed at once their ^rip of each other, and each made for her own door, \vee])in(4 the while, and eacli blamin*;- the other as the occasion of the (|narrel and tile disoracefnl scene. It was al)v>nt some trivial thin<». I followed them np, j^oin;^ fust into the house of the one and then into that of the other, and "ot to nnder- stant, I low (diuplicitc, how woiulcrful, i> m.m. IX the spriiio- of 1.S65 John I'oskr com- pleted his theolooical cunieuluiii. The two vacations precedino- it he had spent in ehar^- of small chnrehes at snmnier ivsorts o!i the Clxde and the Forth, and in ])oth instances was the choice of the people themsclws ; his services as student ]Kistor were hUssi^-d to many, and l.f ^ad mnch kindness shown to him by the i)eople, many of whom he fonnd to be the excellent of the earth. On both coasts he met .Ljrand t\pes of Christian character, men ami women w ho for a lifetime had bten in the stress of the storm of opposition and ridicnle for principle's sake, and .served as beacon lio-hts. Odd characters are met with every- 107 I i r ill:'' h. i'\ I ' I I9S THE O'KRTrRN ()' BOTANY BAY where, but some neighborhoods arc more largely stocked wit!; them than others, men and women whose mental S^ear is a little out of order, and who have failed to j^rip the very first princi- ples of the <;()spel of Christ. Mr. Foster sss ^:'!fi6mar-'«v^se, all of them interested in Jami e as a " dear, s^ood man He had been missed from the serviees a whole day and Mr. l-'oster was concerned abont him, as he had been most rejjnlar in his attendance. After the eveninir servic< sa\s Ml Foster, " I was on my way to visit a sick person when I met Jamie vSonter ont for a stroll. I said to him, ' James, we missed you at the services all day and felt some- what concerned about xon. Were \ sick that vou could not be with on US I wass n'cel enou f, d 1 said lie, LTiviUL'' the peculiar drawl and burr of tlie dis- trict. I was i' tl le verv act o' uetlniL^ ready to j^^aiii^ oot to worship, and jist pnttiujT^ on my shirt collar when the but- ton cam' aff, and that s]>yird me for the day, and I i^neM up the thocht o' j^^oiu;.,^ oot altogether.' h ilil !1" '^^/ST" m i !1 H Hi |i' f 200 THH ()'i:Krrk\ o' hot.wn- hav " ' I>ut, JaiiK's, if yoii had htcii vci v anxious lo ^o tocliurch \oii snreh- could have sewn on a button, or for that part of it, made use of a i)in.' P>ut said he in reply : " ' It would never dae, ye ken, to sew on buttons on (lod'sain day; that kiue 'o thinjr is for ilher days o' the week and no for the Sabbath iUw'' " Here was a man who could neglect the house of prayer and the Lord's vSuj)- j)e;- for a strict observance of the vSab- balh, strainin^^ at a <^nat and swallowiiiii;- a camel." As to oddities and oddness. Jamie Sou- ter was no exception in that loca'itv : " There was a Mary San,L,^ster, who was a wee bit cra/ed on th.e vSecond Advent, and badly mixed in her ideas. At times she <^ave evidence that all was not right in her intellect.'" At a very early hour one morninj^ .she came to Mr. booster's 1)oardin,i;--house door, sinoiu!^ in tones much more loud than inusii Awake, awaki-, tlic Lord lias come, Ami now he li.is a])|)eare(l." Hi Ba "!r=^^^\i;r,^v (Mil) CIIARACri'.kS Jdl He says: " I ^ol up, partially (lii»i(l, raised the window sash, put out in\ litad, and said in an injnivd tone: * Mai\-, what is the nieaniui^ of all this noise at such an early hour? ' "Her reply wa>. : 'Dear Mr. I'ostt-r, the Lord jesus has siuldenK' eoiue to hi-> teni- ]>le ; are xou tu) i^led o' it? He is uoo ir. Jerusalem, and we are a' ;^auu to meet him, and you ken, as I like you. I hae come to u to i^aui; wi' me tae tin- heautit'u' eeety.' " Here was I in an awkward fix. It re(piired j^reat tact to ^et out of it with- out woinulin*;- her, and i^et the i>oor de- mented creatrire home to her bed. I in- (juired : 'Mary, do you know tlu- road to Jerusalem ? I am not <|uite sure that I know it. Ha\e \(»u any idea of the dis- tance, the different countries to he pas?-ed throu):;!! before irettinjj there, and the number of lan<^uams spoken by the dif- ferent nations, and the time it would take to make the journey a-foot, as we are both poor and would have to foot it and be<^ our way • ■> ' i'l "She innocently rtplird : 'T hinna i:. in' !r 1 2U2 TIIK o'kkTIKX o' ItOTAW B.w sitidk'd it up. hut iIk- L^>Ji*' -r'^i^^fer-i^J ODD cn.\KACTi:us JO J ])it, aiul we will talk owr iiiattcrs a litllc laUr oil and make pn)pcr ariaiij^cniciils.' "Mary was satisficil and qnitlly went home U) liei I)t.(l. She was sali>fied to remain in iMshertown, to have Jcsns dwell in iier heart by faith, and her luulv be the temple of the Holy (Ihost. vShe j^ave np the thon>^ht <.f a matt-rial Jtrn- saleni of oreat spkiulor and the re-estab- lishment of jndaism. ' Words litlv spoken are like apples of j^old in pietnres of sil- ver.'" At one time there was a terrifie storm off the roek-bomid eoast of Herwiek, and the lar^e herring lleet fonnd a shelter in the harbor and offing-, and tin- half-deals' men had eonie ashore for enjoxnunt, wliieh means, the\ drank and (piarrckd and madr the air hideous with their shonts and profanities. The nproar in the village was nnnsiial aini there was a ery of ninnkr, mnrder, m-n-r-d-e-r ! \Vo- nun were rnnninjn to the beach shriekin<,^ Mr. I'oster was in his stndv preparinj^ for the Thnrsday evening; service when he heard the nproar and the distressino; cries of the fisherwomen. He jumped M \ [I i 204 TIIK o'KkTikX ()' HOTANV U.\\ ll * fi I m "P, put on his l,:,t, and rnpid.. made for llic bcacli. On his way he inquired of one and another the nature of the tror.Me, and tht answer j^riven him was : " It's hrntal wark tliey are daein<,rat the l)eaeh. 'j'hey are jist killin' iiher.' Pine wark, indeed, for a lot o' Christians. They are niair like Sooth Sea sava^^'S than ceevileexed folk. lint nane o' oor "K'n are in it ; jist a lot 'o low larish and Ilic-lan half-deals men, who, when fii' o' ynle, eanna a-ree i)nt mnst iist feeht." It was the herrino- nshin.L,r season, and a lar-,. Heet of deeked vessels was eno;aoed in its proseention. 'J'hc erews represented sewral nationalities, and each carried six men, half-deal's men, or men not re,o;ularly en-aovd in the fishini,^ business, but extra help readv to serve for a share of the cateh dnrin'o the sea- son. The- men when ashore had imbibed too freely of - .^xn]c Scotch drink," and it had ronscd their passions to the Iiiohcst pitch, and had put the " Kerish " and the " Hielan " men in fi-htin.o^ trim and oppo- ODD CMAUACTl.US -<^'5 site camps. Tlu- hallk' was on. A rini; had lufti I'DruKtl, sides takiii, and llu- men wlio were fij^htinj; had ihvii sii-onds and a referee. When Mr. l-'ostrr arrived on ihe j^TDnnd the nii n wire in i^i ips and d()in<,^ their best to throw each other. The combatants were an Irishman and a Hij^hland man. They were stripped, and were pnmmeliniL; each other in a most hrntal way. The men were bletdinj^ freely, and their naked bodies sliowed phiinly tlie damai^e that liad l)een in- flicted in the naane of manl\- sport. How many roinids they fon^^hit we know not. The Ilij^hkind man had the worst of it, was very excited and \ieions, and about to nsc his teeth »)n hi^ antagonist. Mr. Foster elbowed his way throni^h the crowd and ".i^ot iirside of the rini; and alonoside of the naked warriors. Ik- says : ''I took in the situation at once, and (jnieth' step])ed np to the Irishman and whispered into his ear: ' My friend, I am snrprised to find a sensible, o^ood-loukinj^ fellow like you eni^a^ed in such un- seemly, brutal work. It is not a bit f«a4.*Jir5t-T! M w ! ! U-n' 2()(J THK u'l.KTrRN < )' HoT.VNV UAV '"•"»ly "'■ ^'>ll t.. r.uht i„ this way, and yon do lint know in what it niavcml. If you please, ;4ive it up like a }.oo(I fellow; now, be a ^enllenian.' "IK- look breath, looke.l nie in the face, and incpiired : 'Are y.u a clergy, jnan?' I replied in the airirniative : 'Then fur the sake d \(.ur riverencc, and the tlnouble you 'ave put yourself to, I will quit and ij,,t strike another blow.' " And neither did he. I led him away to his elothcs, and when clothed took liini away ofT the -rounds, on the wav K'lvinj^r hiui j^r^od advice. "It took half a dozen men to hold back the Hi-hland man, infuriated and foauiin*,- at the mouth, and ready to de- vour all and sundry. The li(juor liat tiftain. In- terfere I must, ill the iiitir«.sis of the eoin- nioii j^ood. I iie\er laid inystlf out f(.r it, hut time and ajj^aiu I was in for it before I knew." Mr. l-'osttr .said of one of tlie.se times: "I was on my way h(«me from a toilsome da\ 's vi.siiatioii, saw a crowd on tile roadway and four coii.stahles lian- dliii<,»^ a poor tipsy tradesman in a nio.si 'J'liev had thrown him tital manner. down and were hoklin*; him down and l)eatin<4 him with their hati^ns. vStewarl was a well-to-do citizen, a master ]dnmher, hut in drink a leri(>r to the whole iieiuh- horhood, and loo much for the police. They were taking him to the lockup and he was resisting them with all his iniolit, and they were hound they would heat him into suhjection. I h. id to interfere ; uiy better nature compelled me to do it. I could not <{a\u\ by and .see the poor tradesman abused, e\eu lhoU5.;h he was drunk. I requested the policemen to >^ive Stewart to me, and I promised them 2oS Tin: cyiiKriRx o' ho'iaxv hav W i I I. I I I wiiild take liim (juiLlly to the lockup. They williiioly haiulcd him over to nie. When I had him nix.ii his tVet, I said: 'Stewart, mv ^^nod iVllow, will vou oo quietly to the police station if I o(, ^vilh yon? I will see that yon ^et fair p]av and that jn>tiee is done yon.' He at once said, ' Til oan^- wi' you, sir, hnt not ui' them .' And so arm in arm we went down the street, the police fol- lowing- behind. It was better for all con- cerned that he went peaceabl\- than that there shonld have been a scene, and the poor man <,ret there battered, bruised, and bleedini^. "When vStewart sobered, he so/xTid. He found hinrself in a cell in the lock- up ; he had a racking- headache and sore bones, and was co\ered with ^ore. 'Where am I, and boo did I oet here?' ' Vou have been resistino- the constables, and thrashing them too, and to save vou irom unha])])y consequences the voun^- minister o' the Dipper folk had to step in and tak' yon tae the lockuji.' It was enono-h ; his better jud.L^nient did the rest. ' I could hae thrashed the four ODD ClIARACTKRS 2( 19 policciiicn and tied lluin up in a kiu-t, and dichud (wiped) the .stuit \\V llicin, the cowards; hut there is nae <4ettin<^'- ,.\r my heino taken tae the K.eknp 1)\ the minister. My eertie, we maun hae hxik'd oran as we .i^ae'd (loon the street, me rear- in,o; fu', and the minister sae quiet and kind'" It was a nnicpie temperance sermon, the minister's takinoof red-headed Stew- art, the phimher, to the h)ckuj). m N, ''' if; : n ! CHAl'TKR XV LOOKING TOWARD INDIA Far, f.ir aw.iy, in Iicatlicn darknos dwelling; Millions of souls forcviT may be lost ; Wiio, wiio uiii ^o, salvation's stor\ tcllinj;, Looking to Jesus, hccilin<; not tlic cost? AFTKR his o^radiiatioii Mr. Foster was inakiii<( special ])r(.'})aratioii for Lhe forci*;ii field, aiul expected to sail some time in the autumn for India, lie was busy with certain medical studies, with a view to beinj; helpful to sufferiiio- Inimanity, if needful. In the meantime he was ready to do at home what was expected of him when amon<( a ])a,t4an j)eople. Hurke has said : " It is by sympathy that we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved, and are never suf- fered to be indifTerent spectators of almost anything- man can do or suffer. Vov sympathy may be considered as a kind of substitution by which we are j)Ut 2IO iiiaib^- I,()(1KINC. TOWAkIt IM)IA 21 I in the place of another man, ami affected in many respects as he is afTected." Mr. iMxster fonnd that his daily effort in hehalf of the ill-<'nided and snflerin}: j)oor matle a Ireniendons demand npon his sympathetic natnre, and that a day's ".shnnminj;," as it is called, was more taxino- and exhanstin^ than preachin«; to a j>;reat conoreoation. Some one mnst do it, if \vc wonld «;et down to rock- bottom iL^ospel principles. The Son of Ood became the vSon of Man. He hnm- bled himself in the body oi onr Hesh, stoopin<^ down to onr low level to live onr life, and in the end bore the ij^no- miny and the sniTerinj^^ of the cross for the joy set before him, onr redemption. Our fellow-sufferer yet retains A felldw-feelin^f of our pains, And still rcnienihers in the skies, His tears antl aj,'onies and cries. While waitinj^ the decision of the com- mittee of the Forei<;n Missionar\ vSocietv, Mr. John Foster served as a snp])l\ in many of the towns of his native land, and generally with acceptance. 212 THK o'l-RTl-RX ()' liOTAXV HAV ^V h! vScveral imMiiiiiciit brethren soiiuht to dissuade liiin from ooiii;, to ^et ac([uainted with the brethren and the churches, but as a disappointed man, and Scotchman-like, my repl\- was : "'vSir, I did not come to London to i^o sii;ht-seein_<^, or as bent on ])leasnre. My onlv errand was to meet the committee, and that has been accomplished. If there is no monev to send me to India there is no money to keep me in London. I lea\e for home to-morrow.' % m ' 'i I'd- 2i6 Tin- (yi:i' isotanv isay " I do not tn to justify myself ; pcr- liaps if aoniii i)]acc(l in the same circuni- staiicvs I would not do it, but tlu- die liad been cast. My attitude j^avc offense to the senior secretary, a blnfF, ooodduarted Vorksliire man. He had seen I \vas dis- ai)l)ointed, and had desired to let me down easily, and also to break the force of tlie ao;itati(,n likely to sjHinjr „p j,, vScotland over my failnre to o() to India as expected bv the vSeoltish chnrches. " W liile in London I made np mv mind to see as mncli as possible of the worst as well as the best side of its life. I took in as many of the siohts usually seen by visitors as conld be .seen in the time I had at mv disposal. I did „ot desire to stndy architecture or to fortify my knowl- t't.' of the l)ollle is iviiarde*! as a j)le(l!L;i' of friendship, wliile in I'jii;land tlie n^e of li(|n()r is re<^arded as a nicessary of life, and the prerecinisite to a <4ood dax's work. In London, in 5)roi)<>rli()n to the population, there is a greater number of degraded women than in (ilasoow, though the hitter's t\pe is coarser and more re- pelliu}^. The jMihlic houses or shops were crowded with them. " I noticed that beer could be bought in the open street just as freely as milk in vScotland. Men in smock-frocks car- ried it about in lar^e cans haui^inij^ from a yoke on their shoulders. .\s thev went thronj^h the streets they shouted, ' Uecr, b-c-c-r, b-c-e-r I ' and the mechanics and laborers hearinj;^ the peculiar call, woiild leave their job to |L,^et their ])enn'()rlh of beer and then return to their job. "From the golden ball, on the top of the dome of vSt. Paul's Cathedral I o-ot a fine view of the <:^rcat city. I heard a choral service in the cathedral, and in- spected its monuments On Tlnirsdav I went to Xewinoton Tabernacle to hear il 2iS Tin-; ()'i:kTn<\ o' hot aw u.\\ ^fli F i BR' i ii: vSpiirj^voii ;it lioiiu-, and found Iiini tlic saiiK- at home as abroad, the prince of preachers, and London's Mrialesl preach- er. He had blood earnestness. He did not preach to entertain men, hnt to save men. He spoke as a man with a messa.i,re and a niessajL^a- worth receivino^. He tohl it in a way that couUl be credited and easily understood. He spoke with unction and power. " In chihlhood's (hivs I had read a oood deal about historic London, and it was now found serviceable in ^j^ouv^ throuj^di Loudon without a ^uidc or friend. " I'.efore I left I had the honor of diuinj; at the ' Freemason's Tavern,' a noted i)lace. The kuioJUed cliairman ^ave the dinner to the committee on his beino- elected as m< -iber for Ihistol iu the House of Commons. Outside of the missionary committee there were but three others present, a respected brother troni Canada represent in, i,^ the Cirand Lii^ne Mission, the other missionar\ -elect and myself. The (naud Li.^ue a,«;eut, to economize, had come over on a sailin_5r vessel, and was most anxious to obtain a I.ooKINC, Tn\\ AUK IM»IA ^IV lioariuii, htil tlnix- w.is no room t<>r liiiii, and 111- \va> |ti<)tiii>t(l >(» main iL^iiiiKMN it' Ik- would retrain from niaUini; a >|>«.(.<.li. Like nusclf he had hatl a di>api)oinl- nunl, and tclt it. " I was closely watihid by ihi' secre- tary, and he \\ of its cost and its u'.ility, and nmre espe- cially at a time when the sei vices f ac- ceptable men could not he utilized for lack of funds. I did some mental arith- metic. Hut it is one wa\ of the knij^hl houoriu'> the committee and the e-ommit- 220 TIIK o'KKTfkN o' JJoTAW MAV 1 ! lev lu.iK.rin^r the lucinhcr-clcct for Hris- tol. It was my iiii>t(.nime to be Scotch, and a iK-Iicvcr in the denial fiiiiess of lhiii<^s. "The secretary said to iiie, ' X(»w, my vScoltish friends how the case st('..d, my acceptance by the committee and the discourao:i„o state of the funds. "I left by train that evening from Kus- t more elosel\- with the missionary society. The churches in the we^t would lia\e had one of their own men in India. "One qood brother, now in Xorlh British America and noted for his ;^reat ]"»reachinj4 ahilitx' and orif^iualitx-, uicet- inj; me on the ])u1)lic ihoroui^hfare one day on his wa\- to business, said : ' And so, after all, Mr. I'oster, you are not q;o- inj; to India. It is really to«i bad, and I am very sorry for you. Man, I would rather sell ni\- shirt than see xcu stuck for the lack of the means to <4<).' I had known this i^ood brother, and his father also, from earliest childhood, as earnest, |L;()od men, men of dod, able and faith- ful ministers of Je.Mis Christ. The father was a noted open-air ])reaelur on the I i. ■ 224 TIIH o'KRTrRX ()' liOTANV I5AV (iivcn, wlk-re he inade use of a portable pulpit. IK- was senior pastor of the ' Pe.)ple\s Church/ a hi^r, haiulsome man, larn^e head, fine countenance, and had a o:enerons heart. He always wore a hroad- brimmed silk hat, and the boys named him, 'anld Broad-brim, the preacher.'" Karly in the autumn of 1S65 Mr. Fos- ter beoan his mission work in Wabster- tou. He rented a room in the Corn Ex- change, issued i)osters announcing- a g-os- pel service, and at (mce commenced house-to-house work amoui^r the poor and non-church- i-()Ri:i(;x MISSIONS ou homi. 225 not, nj) lo this datf, lonclicd a j>t.iin\ ot the society's inont-y furtlKV than his t ravel injL^ expenses to and from Lon'lon, yet he was treated as one of tiie soeietN 's aj^enls. He says: "I had formed new connec- tions and tlie secretary knew it. He was aware that a conn;remati(»n had heen j^atliered, a chnrcli or^ani/ed, and th ' I was the pastor-elect, and that friends had pleuj^ed my snpport in Wahster- ton. The new field was not of m\- seekint^, and the financial sn])port was j^iven becanse the friends beliewd that I was called of (iod to the work in Wah- sterton. " Here was a complication. I craved time to work my wa\- honorably ont of the Wabsterton arranj^ement, afraid lest a sudden ruptnre of relations wonld dam- age the infant cause now so full of prom- ise. I still had a stron<^ desire to il;o to India; my heart's promptinj^s went that way. The secretary wonld haw me make an absolute surrender to aulhorit\-. I could not and wonld not obe\- and wrouy^ my conscience, as I belie\i'i:R-n UN o' hoianv uav it i \m 'I -■ 1 '. if I al llhit juiicliuv (Ir.scikil llic .sImil;- Hii-- link' C('iiii>an\- in Wahstc-rloii, whom I had hciii inslruiuciUal in hriiij^- iii!^ to*>cthcr. I dcviiiccl that il wouhl he most unfair lo them, and also to the hrcthreii who had bound thrm.seKcs to support nif as a niissionarx [)ast(.r. Thcic mailers stood IK' wouhl not bud^e a jol. hut sought to mix up another mai- ler in the contro\ersy whieli I was ])re- pared to leaxe to the j^ood sense of the eommitlee. " I Could not be bribed or coaxed to do violence to ni\ conscience. l'erliai)s it was then as now. Il was said, ' Pastor I'oster has ti)o much conscience.' I could not at au\- rate :L;i\-e up m\' niissionarx work in m\- ,kw fuld until (lod showed ".e a way out, neither could I <^i\e up my determination to ,i;() lo India." There was a somewhat exlmded and heated c^oiusiioncknce between the si-c- retary and Mr. booster, and also much deuominational discussion in the " I'ree- mau " and the magazines with ri-fLrence lo the comniillee''s attitude and the stc- retarx 's action, and the unwisdom (»f I-OklUtiN MISSIONS ok IloMi: 227 sffkiiii; l(» mil tlu' mi.s.sioiiaiA afiairs on comnicrcial Hiks. At tlir union intvt- inj;s in IJradford llic tiiliu- itolic\ of tin.' socicl\' was (liscn>S(.'(I, ami a new rro/iih' inan.L;nralc(l ; prosperity ever since has allciukd its operations, 'i'he fniuls liavc at least trtMcd, tlu- niissionar\- staff has hcvn largely increased, tlie work has l)een done as ne\er before, and (iod has ])r()- \"ided th" means to tlo it. " The present secretary was then an assistant in the office. I had his full sympathy as to my missioiiarv ideas. He has since jnoved himself the man tor the place, a man of lar^e ideas and fnll of the missionary sjiiril, and, not least, a man of j^ood sense." During the new r/o/'/z/r the mission in India has been enlarged, China has been re-entered, the Con^o has been taken np, missions in I^nrojie to Roman Catholics have been establislud, and the work ])ushed as never before. The missionarx literature has been imjiro\ed and is mo'e abundant, and the indixidnal chnrchrs are more deeply inieresled in missions. It may l)e that more was accom])lished Li,>.iL 22S THK o'HKTrRX ( )' UoTAW n W U 1' I*' li i "p ihroiioli .Mr. I'osic-r's ivniaiiiin«4 at lioiiK' llian would liavr Irlii if lie luul quiftlv snbniittfd to the- course pioix.secl and jj[OiK' abroad. (',(.(1, at an\- ratr, lias lion- orcd anew the nnicli-Iionoivd niissionarv society in a marvelous way during; the last thirty-five years. Mr. Foster says : " I'riends wore di- vided as to the wisdom of mv decision. Some never L^ot reconciled to it, as thev saw in it the forfeiture of a oreat future as a man of ener^jy and resources, but the die was cast, and Wabsterton was to be the scene of my labors. vSince the sUess of that mental storm and heart a^onv I have often been tempted to believe, 'I have surelv made a mistake.'" ciiapti:r x\ii SOMK HI'.MARKAm.l' COXVHKSIOXS In \\ li.it u.iy (ir liy wli.it iiKiiiiicr nf woikiiii,' 0(1(1 ili.mi,'c> a Miiil rnmi v\\\ to \:,ihh\. liou Ik- mi- |>ic;4ii.ilcs the barren rex k— tlic ])ri((.'li'^> -tins and Mold — is to tlie liunian niiml an inipLiu-trable mystery, in all cases alike. TOIIX Fr)STl':R was ptTsi.stcnt in cf- I fort, sympatlRlic and tender, and won tlie hearts of many for ( iod. I le ^atlit-rcd around him lars^v nnmhers of peopk", whole families were converted, and many of them made a profession of their faith by baptism. Mr. Foster was in the habit of holding what were termed kitclun or collai^c meetings whereM-r enconraoenienl was offered to do .so. He was recpRNled on one occasion to hold a .s(.r\ice in the honse of a James Nelson. '"ivorabK dis- posed to the p^ospc 1. lie lived some miles from town in a coal-minim^- di.s- 22(1 )•■ . il 2^n TllK U'KKTIRX o' lUVlAXV 15AV trict. Previous to the hour of service it was usual for Mr. Foster to visit the iieiohhoriii^ families to tell them of the place and hour of service, aud to cxteud a cordial iuvitatiou to atteud, if possil)lf. Amoujr those visited was Widow Deuuv, a womau souiewhat advauced iu years, a lithe, euergetic, dark-visaged little S(^Mi; Ki.MARK \r.i.i. ci)N\ i:usi« »NS j-;i woinan. wlio \\;i> iiji^aKk-d .is "a tiiu; I'dsou and iL^iidc hotiMw ifi." "' SIk- IX s|)<>ii(K(1 Id iii\ kiKK-k," .sa\> Mr. Im.->ui, "and apiKautl I)uldin<^ tlu- dtitii a w ri- hit .ijai. I >.iitl to lu i. ' Mi>. Denny, 1 haw lalk-d in a t"rit.ndl\ \\a\ lo nolilN' yon ot a .sci\icr llii-^ afurnoun at llnvc o'clink in llu- adj(iinin«^ !:i mi'^i.-, that ol" Mr. XcKiMi, and woidd \k- pliiM-d to havr ytinr i>i\>(.ni-(.', if at all i-onwnit nt." '"Ml" it !)(.■ a fail' (|n(.->li«»n, wlia' an- \ on i ' " ' I am a niini-ti-r ot" tlu i^ospi-l. an-' I haw hcLii in\itcd to hold a >(.r\ii't- in tlu- honsc ot' Ml. Xilson.' "' \\\-cl, wcc'l,' said slu-, ' I'll L^ant^ tar nac- DipixTs" nicvlin^ ; not a fnl will 1 ]>nl i' til'.' place-. I am an ( )iiminal SriT- (K-v (secession chinch i, and m\ mitlu-r at'oic nie, and I am no o' tlu- kiiu- tac join the I)i])j)crs. W- can '^an<^ \(>ni \\a\ and hand Nonr nu-ctin^ at W-ison's, but ril no he there at on\- rate. Til no l)c oot at Ncnr scrxicc' " ' I>iu, Mrs. I)cnn\,' said I, ' we do not ask yon to nnitc with tlu- Dippers; it is to attend a <4()s])il ser\ ici-. Dii)i>in^ is i..i..- 2}2 Tin-; o'KRTlkN <)' HOTAW HAV "r ;! ! V :t! m not iIk- all-important matter. The all- important matter is to tnrn to ( ;()cl, lobe made a new creatnre in Christ Jesns. Unt, Mrs. Dinny, \(.n should not " craw .sae crou.se"; it is your kind which makes the best Dippers, as you call them. Voii area woman with a mind of vor ;wn. Von have an opinion and Ik. Id |,v it, and if the Holy Spirit through the word .showed yon that the Dipper folk are rioht, and you wror.o, yon certainl\ would he a Dipper.' Xa, na. my man, xouMl never ^»-ct me under the water, even should I leeve tae be as auld as Metlm.selah, and I reckon he lived tae be a j^rude aj^-e, at least the book sa\s so.' Mrs. Denny, I trust no harm is done. I thono^ht it was courteous to extend to von an invitation as a near neij^rhho,-. ( iood-afternoon.' When the fire had burnt itself out Mrs. Denny was at the meet- ino; and an appreciative listener." (iod was pleased to use the ministry of Mr. Poster in leadin- Mrs. Stalker and her dan.q^hter IJ/zie to a savino- trust in Christ. Before they made an unreserved '^'?m:'f^-ww^^^m^ ^ffli^^.l^irf^Qi^^yAiiiaiSilS't iii^M- ^^ ■^M.ska^ S(»MH KKMARKAHI.I-; CoNVHRSK )NS 1 1 •> siitit'ii(Ur of ihc'insclvvs to liiiii, lluy both liad a dcc-j) stjiisc of sin, and a ilark, unliapi>\- siasoii. Mr. ImoIct had I»<.cn l)icachiii|n upon tlii- nature' and mcissitv of rciK'iitancf, and tlu- spirit of (lod um(1 the sermon to their awakenin;^ and con- version. Their decision to he Christians divided the family. The hnsband ami father was ])itterly opposed to salvation by free <;race alone. In his opinion such reli<;iou was a mockery, a delusion, and a snare of the devil. " Xae mortal man," said he, "can tell this .side o' the day o' jid'^nient, whether his .sins are a' forj^iven, or his inifpiitv covered, or that he is in possession o' eternal life. I'll hae nane o' it. It is simply blasphemy, presumjition and un- blushinu^ blasphemy, and dn/ naethiu<^ but mak' hypocrites o' the warst kine." Mother and danohter prayed eariiesth- for his conversion, and so also did the pa.stor. They had ne^reed in Jesus' name to request of (lod this favor. James was a man well u]> in years, a carpet-weaver by trade, but in his younjjjer years a baker. In everythint; but spirit- Ml tti! tflj 2M Till'; o'liKTl k.\ ,)• lioTAW cav "•'' iHi.i;i..n Ik- i.n.vt.l liimsdl a man IKIia.I.suisc, uasnu.ial.and !,a.| a clcai. '^•^•<"-l. (;..,! lua„I,.,a>criM Lis h.half " I ^^'"^ I-l," said 1,., .- ,ac s... nivscP •1 loM an' mikLmk- .sinner jiM ,,ii tlu- \cr\ '""•1< "' iKnliii,,,!, an.! I wu/ i„ sair ^ wcl,, asif t,, examine S(.nici!iin<. in connection with the loom. I .lidnalikc tac I.C chaffed al.oot n.v weakness or tac I>c rin upon aI)o.,t niv religion. I wnx ,' l'"t i>csiN V I ,kSli ».\>> JjS hi-tu hrotit^hl to UK- tliat I iiiij^lil aid liiui. He said : "'Mr. iMislt-r, I wii/ in a stall- «>' di. - trartioti, and \vitlu)ul >a\iiij4 a wotd tat- ain <>' tiic laiiiily, I slii)i><.(! aw a' irac thciii and Wiiit (loon 1)\' llic water's sidi-. I \vu/. sac dark in my mind and unhappy thai I saw nac'thiii^ t"oi it hnt In- pnt an t-nd tac m\ lift-. I \\n/. jisi i' the act ()' hmpin' intac- the riwr wIkii I u n/ j^rij^pfd 1)\ m\ w itV and Li/./ir. ami ht. hi as in a \irc, and I luaid tin. '^\u\v wifi- sahbin^ and saying : "( )h, ji-cnus Slalkc r, dinna dae sic a thini; as (Ki' 1)\ nouv hann," and ihcy took nie and led mc awa' frac the i)laci', and here I am cia\in<^ yonr ad\icc. Thev' can nooicll \on their side of the slor\-, syne \ardon, and holiness, and then we kn'> i led doon together, and he pra\ed eaiiiesll\ tae «1 i» ■ • II li' !! i! 1'^ ' ■ ^ II' ' 236 TJIK o'KkTlKX ()' HOTAW UAV (iod for nie that I miclit be saviiioly onlichtcncd, and made a n.w man "in Christ. The prayer of my wife and Ij'z- >^ic was jist sabs and tears. Naethin<,r wonld satisfy Mr. lH)ster bnt I n:nst pray in my ain behalf to (;od himsel', and jist tell him what I thocht o' mvsel\ and what I desired him tae dae for me in Jesns' name. Man, I had a battle, bnt it was short and deceesixe. I jist prayed : 'O Lord (lod, yon hae been t^mh tae nie, and I am here and no in hell, where I deserve tae be. I micht hae been there ere noo, and by my ain aet, bnt I am in the land ..' the livin- Xoo, Lord, von ken a' aboot me, a pnir, stippit anld sin- ner. I canna dae onythincr tae save niysel'; thy o;race mnst dae it a'. And, <'> Lord, I am willin- that it shonld daJ It. I throw mysel' on Christ and his feenished wark, noo and forever. O Lord, save Jeemes Stalker, in Jesns' name, and j-loHfy thyself. Ameii.' I i-ose frae my knees; my steeked e'en were opened ; my mind wnz peacefn', mid my heart .crJed and checrfn'. I was satisfeed to be saved on Clod's own terms vSoMK ki:M.\KK.\i!i,i: C()NVi:ksh>ns 237 and in God's ain way, and tac 1)c anian;^ (lod's prol'cssino- people. I am a niirark- ()' ^racc." There was ,i>reat joy thai nij^dit in tiu' home of James Stalker, and before re- tirinsf f«>i' the ni'>:ht he did what he never had before, he a>ked for the Bible, read a l)it of Scripture, and then re(inested all to kneel with him in prayer. James vStalkerand several others were received into the chnrch by a profession of faith l)y baptism. lie lived a life that adorned his profession, and when it came to the lime when he had to say <^ood-bye to all earth, and all that is earthly, he (piietly closed his eyes in di-ath, sweetly restin*; in Jcsns by simple faith. On the Lonl's Day afternoon, Pastor Foster was wont to condnct an open-air service at the Town Cross, takino- bis stand at the fool of a statne erected in honor of a poor boy who afterward be- came T/)rd Mayor of London. Around this statne Mr. lM)ster gathered a <^a)odly company of hearers. On one occasion he had in the crowd a Diek \V . a brioht, active, inlelli.i;ent Roman Calho- WF^ Iiri i! 1:1 i! ■ !. 2SH rilK O'KRTrKX O' IJOTANV HAV lie. He heard tlie -ospel, llic Hc.lv Spirit dealt with him, and uliat he heard was unto salvation. Air. Foster at the time knew nothin- of it. ( ),n.. Sunday moriiiiior he noticed a stran<;er who showed more than usual interest in the service. Ilis face was radiant, and he seemed pleased ;.nd haj^py. It was then l*--^ -ac—'- SOMI', Rl.MAKKAl'.I.l'; C< »N \ l.kSU )NS 39 the cu^l()m to liaw llic l.oid's Suppi' at the close of the service, and the stranger rcinaiiK'd and took his place aiiioii<^ the coniinunicaiits. Mi. I'oster felt con- strained to <;<> and speak to him. lie incjuired his name, his address, and his chnrch connection. In re])ly he said : "My name is Richard \V . I li\e at the Townhead. I was an Irish Roman Catholic, hnt I am a Rtmian Catholic no lon,i;er. I liave hiard \<>n preach at the Town Cross several times, and I ha\e heen readin<; tlie IJible, and, l)le>s (lod, I have sicn myself to be a ,L;ieat sinner and Chri>t to be a <;reat Sa\ionr, and as \()n ha\e tani^ht me, I haw jjlaced my whole heart's trn>t in 1p^ as my Sa\ ionr. M\- sins are pardonec ' ■ ..^h his blood. I am wa>hed in the I of the Land). I am a new man, and 1 thought I would show it and that I am a Protestant by sittinjj^ down at the Lord's table. I am done with Rome and willini.; to ]k- saved in the P.ible way." He was recniested to remain at the close of the Service for conversation atid prayir, and to lia\e all explained to him from -JJ,J-l ILJ ^-CTfff" 240 TIIK O'KRTrRX O' IK/rANV BAY It ! il ; i! i 1?! the Holy Scriptures as to how he should profess his faith in Christ. He reiiiaincd, and it was shown that (lod demanded re- pentance and faith, that both were pro- fessed by baptism as tanj2:ht in Romans 6:4: " Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death : that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the olory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life." He was willinNVHkSI()NS 24 I On the cvcniii}^ of his haplisiii llio Crown Inn Hall ^vas ciowtkd t<> Iht- doors and scats were at preniinni. Ro- man Catholics \vcre pnsent in laroc nnnil)crs, and had possessit)n of the an;ers to us, our manner of so doiiii; may not accord with your ideas, tastes, and np-biin<>;ino^, but we, if mistaken, are at any rate sincere, and up to the measure of our liuht woidd honor and ■ ■ 242 THK o'HRTrkX o' IJOTAW HAV ■^1 m It ii Ifii Ii 1 1 's ii serve Cod. We arc most anxious to be ri.i;lit in this matter, and to do what is ri«,dit, and if we are astray in faith or l)ractice, we are, I trnst, ()])en to con\ ie- tion and ready to follow Christ and the vScrij)tnres. " Keniend)er, we are men like Your- selves, and would have our feelin.t^s re- s])ecte(! by you. liehave here as you would have us behave if we turned a little while to your place of worship. We rej^ard bajitism upon a profession of faith as the highest act of Christian homage that man can render to the Lord Jesus Christ. I know yon will act the part of oentlenien and observe the '( ".olden Rule.' We shall now proceed with the service." Tliere was on the part of the pas- tor an absolute self-abandonment to Almi.!;dity C.od, that he mioht be i)er- niitted to j^o through the service of the hour. He was prepared for the worst that man could do, but he had faith in (kxl. This self-abandon oave him the victorv, for throuohout the service there was re- spect, reverence, and inidivided attention. ^A-'- =5i' SOMK kliMAkKAlU.K CoNVHKSIONS 243 The scniKMi was scriptural ami scarchiiij;^, on, "With the heart man belicveth unto righteousness; and with the mouth con- fession is made unto salvation." At the close Richard, with several others, were baptized into the likeness of our Lord's death. Roman Catholics all over the room could be heard sayinj^^ : "It is a solenm and beautiful service, and Dick looked angelic as he went down into the water, and if he is all that the preacher said a man ouj^ht to be, Dick, the tnrn-coat, cannot be a worse ni ui. Father McDade mav thunder awav and blow out the candle as nnich as he pleases; Dick, all the same, is a re<,nilar brick." A 1m ief prayer nieetiuj;^ was held after the baptism to commend the newlv baptized ones to (iod and to the Word of his <;race. The service was a tender and joyoirs one. The tenderness was sj)ecial in view of the trials to befall Richard W as a convert from Romanism to Christ. He was specially remend)ered in the prayers. The ])astor, at the close, said to Richard, "You are not thinkinj^ of j^oin^ home alone to-nij^ht ? I shall :m Ilfl- f i I I ;'N 244 TlIK o'KKTlkX ()' HOTAXV HAY sec yon lionic. I liavo a prcsentiniciit that all is not just rioht," "Oh, I am not a hit afraid of them. No one will harm me. I have not \vronoc(l any." Mr. Fostir persisttd in ofTerin.!,^ him his company, and so Richard \vas es- corted to his home by the pastor. Rich- ard had to meet his wife, a powerfully built woman, a most biootc-d Roman Catholic, and a woman with a tongue. On the way up the narrow street leadin he friciuls,' " ' Slmiv, your rivcrcncv, I'allur Mc- Dadc towld us 1r- was Ixnijiiht wid I'lut- cstaiit inoiicN', and that he had sowld himself to the devil to work the niiii of the Holy Roinaii Catholie Apostolie Church, and if that is so, he is not fit to live.' "I replied: 'If Richard has wronged (iod and his church, (lod will deal with him in his own time and wa\ . It is not yoms to usurp the place of (lotl Almi};hty to execute vengeance. If \ou mean to ri»;hl at all let it be to Hi^ht the battle of truth, and do so in the spirit of the threat Teacher, Jesus, cha>teued l)\ mnch prayer.'" He talked them out of their wicked design of shootiu'- Richard. Thorouiihl/ cowed, the ehari;es were withdrawn from the s^tni, and both went away home like men who had awakened otU of a dnam. Im'oui that day ihe\ ceased to molest Rich- ard. He ])roved himself an earnest, (U- voted, jj^rowiniL^ Christian, fdliniL,' a nsrful place in the Sunday-school and also in Iff . i; 24S THK O'l-RTIKX ()' H(yr.\NV H.W the prayer iikrtin-s. (hxI o.,vc l,i,„ ]„. 'aiMilv f..r Christ, for fn.in his cMMi version Ik- souj-lu to l.rin^r then nj, in the- nin-- turc of \hr L,,r.l. When his relative, •saw his Letter life. Urn hecanie reeon- ^Mled to him and freely aeknowled-ed that the j.<.s])cl had made him a het'ter man. -Mr. Foster said afterward: "I shall never for-et that aufnl ni-ht in that narrow, dark, .jniet stre( t, with the two l>i«'lliers hent npon the mnrder of Rich- ard \V . How 1 Went '.me nerv- ously exhansted, not t.. sleep, hnt to tos.s 111 bed. oivino olory to Cod f,,,- his mer- ciful intervention. I was readv at the "UMnenl to die, if need he, in the inter- ests of sonl-liberty and freedom of wor- ship." ' li> not for m.ui I,, tritlf. I.,fe i^ |,nef Ami ;,iii is here. An iv^e is but tlie falliiij,' ,,f a leaf— A tlroppins^r ti.,,^ Wc liavo nc time to sport avsay the hours ; All must ho earnest in a world like ours. It' 111 Wabsterton, as in Botaiiv Bav and SOMI, Ki.MARKAUI.i: C WKK U)N^ ^^y Hitiiiit' .111(1 ! ir' )ii Ci»iii'>^. tliiic irc many ^trikiii'^ conversions and j n-. tiil work tU»ni'. S III CHAPTER XVIII sKTTi.ixo AT \vahsti;rton n. m i'.. Awful liiMvcn I (ireat Kulcr of the various hearts of men ; Since thou liast r.iiscd me lo i onihu t thy church Without the base cabal too often practised, Beyond my wish, my thought, <;ive me the li^bts, The virtues, which that sai red trust recjuires : A loving, loved, unterrifyinj; power. Such as becomes a father ; humble wisdom : I'lain, i)rimitive sincerity ; kind zeal For truth and \ irtue, r.ither than opinions ; And, above all, the charitable soul Of healing peace and Christian moderation. OX the ciohkciitli of Jaiinary, 1866, an ordaiiiiiio council met in the Crown Inn Hall to consider the advis- abilit\' ()f scttint; apart ]\Ir. John Foster to the work of the gospel ministry, and to the jiastorate of the Wahstcrton Chnrch. Tin- council was a \erv rcp- rescntatiw one, consistino oi ])astors, deacons, and others. It was not the usual course, hut was followed at the rc- si:ttmnc. at wahstiirton ^51 (juest of llic pastov-elcct. Tin- i)iiiKii)al of the tlicoloj^ical school was chosen moderator, ami conducted the i)usiness with diuiiilv and abiiilx'. Mr, luistcr read a statement j;ivin)> an account of his conversion, his personal history as a Christian, his views of Christian doc- trine and church order, and his nu)ti\e for beini; set apait to the work of the ministry and the pastorate of the chur>.i'. Several (piestions were put to the candi- date and satisfactorily answered. When the examination was com|)leted, the church was asked to state wh.ether they would sustain the call extended to the pastorate. Two of the deacons answered in the afhrmative for the church, and Jt)lin l-\)stcr was set apart to the jxistor- atc by ])rayer and the laying; on of hands. The Lord's Sui>per was then observed by the church, council, and visitiu theoloj^ical tutor, his pastor, and an old brother minister took jnirt ii'. the cere- mony, and the latter .^ave away the bride. It passed off to the satisfaction of all. The bride and bridesmaids were appro- priately attired in white, without any at- tempt at displa\, and it was remarked l)\ tiiose who ouj^hl to know, that " Li/./.ie Stuart never looked better," and, no doul)t, the oroom was of the same opin- ion. vShe was modesllv and tastefully dressed, as Incame a Christian woman who was about to become a missionar\- pastor's wife. It would be rash on oiu" part to <^o into the matter more fully as to the costumes of the ladies, thou<4li th;ir, to most is of interest. L^-M_;r^^na^ ^^^B ■ I ^.56 T,„.: o'..:RTfKx o' bota.vv «av After the cerci„„„y, the kissiuR of the ""■■. '->"'tr\eti. rije party was q tnMctuIl)- • the nmosc „Vr rin thro' your '""l-pock Hi- a tear in its e'e " Mr Foster says, "That pnn er has been nl-.°»"a:or sceration. ' '.e repast was all -ha. could he de- n, and the addresses ,,ecan,e the place • "'' "f "'^"■■^'O". as did the „,a„v pnavers of ered for the yonu. folks' future Tl e "'"■'* "ere uuu.erous, valuable, and an Proi.r,a,e, and with then, thev had ;« and .'ood wishes. The whole o t e prooee ,,,,s were such a.s to he deen tlieno-Iit way to begin life." SKTTI.INC. AT W .\I'.ST1:RT< )\ :)/ When Mr. and Mrs. I'\)stcr kft for Wabstcrtoi! that evening-, there wxn.- showers of riee, oUl shoes, and ^ood wishes. The company \v is left to their own enji>ynienl, and the newly married traveled by rail to their new home in a missionary field anionj; the lowly pi>t>r. On their arrival they were met at the station by the deacons, one of whom had been at the marriage ceremony. In ])e- half of the ladies of the eon»;rei;ation, the pastor and his wife were presented with a marble timepiece, with a snitable in- scription. Pastor Foster remained in Wabslcrton fnlly seven years, dnrin^^ which time his labors were attended with sisj^nal spiritnal blessinir and manv conversions. A chnrch edifice was erected snited to the needs of the district, and consistin«; of maiii andience room, kctine hall, and vestries with all modern improvements. The style is (iothic, the mast)nry broken rnbble freestone, with dressed facings, dressed rnbble front, and three-cpiaiter pilch roof. The bnildin-;- stands in its own rinciple was involved, he would rather break than bend, holdinu- that principle i> dearer than life itself. :'J -'. ■■•U-' .,-, 'iti» - :ri^Ek':i"',i',^ si;r ri.iNc. at wausti-.u i»»N -'.S9 Persons of llic t»i)posilc IcinpcianKul, and willi a dilTcrent traininj^ in life, have had ditTicnlty in ]>Iacin<,r him, and have been templed to lej^ard him as inlract- ahle. ( )nce nnderstood by his friends, they knew where to find him in all weathers. He has had serions sickness, and at times has l)een bronj^ht very low, vet never laid wholly aside from labor in the jL^ospel. A seasonable rest mi*;lit have saved him mnch snfTerin,i;, bnt the de- mands of a family lashed him to the ship's steerin_i,r ^ear in the stress of the storm of his life voya<;e, and forbade him relaxation in cahuer waters. Li/zie vSlnart has been to him all that she promised, and more. A ^ov_)d wife, the l)est of > 4hers, a wise connselor, and a woman if astonishing- thrift and manaj^ement, and indomitable plnck. In \Val)sterton there were born to them two sons and two danj^hters, and since that tv»-o dant^hters and one son, seven in all. All of them were led to the Saviour in childhood, and were bap- tized by their father on a ))r(>i''Ssionof their faith in the Lord Jesus CMnisi. h is said t \' n f I in- m." 2hO nil: o'l-KTlKX (/ HCnAXV HAV that they are " braw hairns, hrain> and l)rave," capable of making their way in the worUl and of livin the ni -ther of a tamily, she deserves nioir love and sxinixithy than she oen. rally receives. Thouohikss, heartless per ..ns too often expect her to work miracles in the way of outward ai)pearances, nnd in leading 'Lit SKTTI.IXC, AT WAIiSTl-kToX 2(M olT ill cliiircli work. f»»r};clliiiv; ilial tlu- niinislci's wilV is the wilV of a man who is public proptity and subject to cviiy one's call, and that the children are lar*jely the mother's care. The conduct of the minister's famih, their e\ery-da\- preseiitnu ut in j)nb1ic, has its moral effect, and a j^odly faniilv is an efTectixe backinround to a pastor's preachinjj^ of the j^ospel ; it is the niakini^ of the picture in its every detail. The ])astor with a family is more of an all-'-ound man, in and out of the pulpit, than the childless pastor. I lis views of the world arc lari^er and his sympathies are broader, and he fits nuMe easilv iiit(» his place. Hut sonuhow in our mod- ern church life this is not lieiierally ac- cepted, and the minister niiencninbered is the man in demand, onallv to the weakenin<^ of the church's power. May a better day dawn for the broad- minded and the stalwart, briiiji^Mno a wel- come to the man with a fair,il\, because the children are the \er\- sunshine and lite of the conj^re^atioii. " Home is the plaee where a man's heart dwells." ::^:4Tirr^ H » . ;• ! 262 TIIK ()'i;kTrit<>iv. a st-ries <»f " DipiKT folk idyls," ,i,,t to exalt niidnlv John Foster, but that f'rod iiiav ht- ojori- ticd by sfttini,- forth the nsi' lu- was plt-ased to make of him in pnblishiiio the name, the love, and the power of itvii*a«.. si:tti,in(; at \v\hsti;kt«»\ >A jc^iis to saw .siniKi">. SoiiKliiiic, later oil, it ma\ tall to an aUk-r ikii than ours to relate the reinaiiKUi of the career ol" Jollll I'ostrr. The ri>ail our hero had to tra\el was like most uphill ones, intricate, rou<;h, aiul 2(}^ Till-; o'KKTrRN o' HOTANV HAV 1' I' ll if. I ill I! V (lillictill. Wc have sl-cmi liim sil on the colc'i stoiK (loor.slcp of the locked dwell- in,^, on ilif evenino- of his mother's fnneral, homeless, hnn<;rv, cold, and sad at luait, nmlttiino to himseh as he shiv- eivd in the cold damp of the evenino ; " Xae -grannie iioo, and mither and faitlu r v eneonra^ed to work their way ni)ward, and that Jesns may have the ,L;re'atir ^lorw Xow, dear readers, as \i,\\ look njion the- worhl's sj»iritnal need, its masses of I><>'>r, nake-d, miseial.ie, and wretched I'.e-atnres, see je-sns in each one of tluni, and may \i>\\ hear Iran sa\in«': " Inas- fi 1 si: r TI.INC. Al" W .\l;sli:ur( IN Jh;; imicli a>< \f lia\L- mu' ot ilu- kasl of i1k>(.-, my biLlliivn, \l- luucdour il unto I1K-." 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