Part 17 (1/2)

Afterwards introducing himself, he asked me very politely, ”What is the secret of all this?” He stud, ”I have heard you preach, and certainly do not agree witheither in your manner or st the people I must say, I cannot ask you to my pulpit, but I should much like a talk with you Will you coentleo, but could not fix a time while I was so much occupied; so I promised I would write, and offer him a visit when I had more leisure

In addition to the three services in church, we had another in theat seven o'clock, in the tohere I slept There we gathered the anxious ones who had been at the church the night before, and had come away early on account of the distance The little toas all in a coet furious about hter, in particular, went about warning the people against attending it So service, intending to disturb the congregation They arrived in good tiet a seat One younga disturbance, stood still and listenedfro to the ark, and the awful desolation and doo, I could see this sa on the end of a high pew He hout the service, and at the end of the ser at the pulpit as if in a trance He would not one out of his mind His companions were awed and took him away as well as they could, but did not eht, and then the tide was against them

Soon after they had started, the wind rose, and there careat stor awful The wind beca and violent, that, in spite of all their efforts, the boat was stranded; they et out and pull it out of the water, and took refuge for a tiThere they re, when the storain At last they succeeded in reaching ho with the eleh it was but a short one

I rose and went tofound the roo only one chair unoccupied As I stood to 'speak, this seat re at the door to conized in hiht, and who, I was told, was the ringleader of the party who ca He sat down, sighing heavily several times

Almost directly a man came forward and whispered to ht,” I said, ”he is tah now; there is noe reat trouble all day, and fainted away several times before he found peace, which he did very dearly He ca ”Hallelujah!” and stirred us all greatly

Several others of the same party were also converted

The news of thisthe fifth of Novey to represent me They put on it a sheet in place of a surplice, with a paperit on a donkey, carried it through the town, accompanied by a crowd of oes the Puseyite revivalist! Here goes the Puseyite revivalist! Hurrah! Hurrah!” In this complimentary sport the curate and one of the churchwardens took part

That saht this churchwarden (who, I should say, had been one of the boating party two nights before) had a dream He dreamt that his house was full of people, just like the church he had been in; all the rooms, the staircase, and even his own bedroo There was a tremendous stor flashed In the midst of this a voice said to him, ”This is all about you, you sinner!” He awoke up out of his sleep in a terrible fright, and began to cry to the Lord to have mercy on his soul

I was sent for before five o'clock in theto coht he would go out of his ht ht hiht, and from the power of sin and Satan unto God He ith ; there we had the two chief leaders of the riotous party in a changed condition, for which we heartily thanked God

Their friend, the curate, was very excited and angry about this, and did not quite knoho to blame He said that he would write to the Bishop and tell hi on; and I believe he did not fail to carry out his intention As there were o four ed to secure the Town Hall for a course of lectures on the ”Pilgriress” The curate ca the lecture, stood up to speak, and gave went to his feelings by saying a great nant, that I could scarcely restrain the hands on him to turn him out

Some of the old forms and seats in the Town Hall (which was not accustoht of people The vicar's daughter suggested that most likely they should hear next that ”the forms and seats were converted, for she had been told already that they were broken down” This little straill shohich way the wind blew in that quarter, and as the drift of this lady'swas evidently much perplexed, and found himself let in for far more than he had calculated when he invited me He certainly would never have asked me had he foreseen such an upset as there was everywhere, especially in the town in which he lived, and the country parish of which he was vicar

At last he made up his hbour, upon whose judgiving came over him; he all at once turned to ether if you say Mr

---- is not converted!”

”Then,” I replied, ”you may be sure I will not say it”

”But suppose you think so?”

”Well, I ood reason (at least, to my mind), for he has taken no interest whatever in this remarkable work of God, nor has he shown the least sympathy in the spiritual welfare ofat the hbour, who does not profess to be converted, could not help co over to ask about it, while your friend has never been near, nor even sent to make inquiry

Besides this, one of his own people told ry with you for asking me”

”Ah,” said my friend, ”we are not all revivalists like you, remember”

”Well,” I said, ”let me hope you are a deal better than I a me on after this conversation; but as he had written to say ere coo forward In order to ease hisluncheon I would tell about the conversion of one of Mr --'s parishi+oners, and said, ”While I do so, you watch his face If he is at all interested, I will conclude that I a, and that he is converted; but if he is not, I will leave you to judge for yourself I must say, I cannot understand a converted man not interested in the conversion of others, even if it does nothing reed to this, and seemed somewhat relieved in his mind

On our arrival, Mr -- received us courteously, and asked after the fa he could think of but the work

My friend, after a little pause, said, ”Have you not heard of the revival?”