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Show A Muscular Chrlstlun. Dr. Rainsford is the most unique figure fig-ure in New York as I saw him in Reeeher's oid pulpit in Plymouth church not long ago. Over six feet in height, his form is straight and he carries car-ries himself with the precision of a German Ger-man drill master. His sparse hair was carefully parted in the middle. His countenance was open and frank, and his eyes beamed through a pair of pebble peb-ble pince-nez. Dr. Rainsford is a per- ! feet type of the English parson whom Anthony Trollope loved to depict. He is a Londoner by birth. His cheeks bear the glow of ruddy health. I He is a line oarsman, a good criek-eter, criek-eter, as eir . iiisiastie an angler as ever 1 whipped a stream, and he can ride to ; bounds, box or do a twenty-five mile I walk a day without turning a hair. His church is very large, and has no end of societies and relief committees 1 at work. His congregation numbers nearly 3,000 persons. He is popular with the young, and an advocate of the people's pleasure indeed, an enlarged en-larged edition of Walter Besant, and he would like to have a people's palace in every city in the Uuion. New York Cor. Richmond Dispatch. |