Part 3 (2/2)

John Cassell was now in the thick of the fight In those days the opposition to the Gospel of Tereat disturbances at the s, sometimes he was pelted with rubbish, at ti It was, on the whole, a fierce conflict; but John was nothing daunted

It is, of course, impossible to sum up the amount of a man's influence John Cassell scattered the seed of te how one of the grains took root, and grew up to bear important fruit

The Rev Charles Garrett, the celebrated teetotal President of the Wesleyan Conference, writing several years after John Cassell's death, says:--

”I signed the pledge of total abstinence in 1840, after hearing a lecture on the subject by the late John Cassell I have therefore tried it fortoto others”

How to cure the curse of drink, what to give in its place when the pleasures of the glass were taken away--that was the problem which many have tried to solve Nonein Exeter Hall he suddenly put a ne before his audience ”I have it!” he exclaievil of the country Give the people mental food, and they will not thirst after the abo the to assist the temperance cause by the sale of tea and coffee, and he now turned his attention to the issue of publications calculated to benefit the cause

Having, at the age of twenty-four, married Mary Abbott, he beca out his publishi+ng schean to issue from the press under his superintendence, and copies were ot that he had been a working man, and one of the first publications he started was called _The Working Man's Friend_

It is not necessary to say --he was only forty-eight when his death took place in 1865--he had done a grand life's work; and the soundness of his judgment is shown by the fact that works which he planned retain their hold upon the people to this day

John Cassell had his ambitions, but they were of a very simple kind

”I started in life with one ambition,” he said, ”and that was to have a clean shi+rt every day of my life; this I have accomplished now for some years; but I have a second ambition, and that is to be an MAP, and represent the people's cause; then I shall be public property, and you may do what you like with me” This latter desire he would doubtless have realised but for his early decease

”A BRAVE, FEARLESS SORT OF Lass”

THE STORY OF GRACE DARLING

She was not irl in the third standard, she lived a quiet life quite out of the busy world; and yet Grace Darling's name is now a household word

Let us see how that has co, Grace's father, was keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northustone is a desolate rock, swept by the northern gales; and woe betide the shi+p driven on its pitiless shores!

Mr Darling and his family had saved the lives of many persons who had been shi+pwrecked ere that ht of the 5th September, 1838, the steaht in a terrific stored and all but useless, and the vessel drifted till the sound of the breakers told sixty-three persons coers and crew that death was near at hand

[Illustration: Longstone Lighthouse]

The captain made every effort to run the shi+p in between the Islands and theof the 6th Septe crash

A boat was lowered, into which nine of the passengers got safely, whilst others lost their lives in atte the day by a passing vessel