Show thrilling instance of faith A clergyman in tes this city read a letter at one of at the samson street noonday prayer prater meetings this week from a young youn man of his acquaintance who was vas 01 on board the ill fated austria du in in which he interview between turn him self and live five christian comrades who perished beneath the waves w aves As soon is as the destruction of the v vessel esel was found I 1 inevitable e bitable these six young oung men took a aa I 1 artl position 0 altion between the flames and the wa I 1 ter with the understanding that at coni the i last moment they woul would d con 1 sign sherrise ther themselves rise ives to the latter in the bare batel moment thus allowed to contemplate their fate their hope m in christ was con 1 fideldy dent expressed and when to escape esopo i the spreading fire their leap became I 1 I 1 ne necessary ces say they oey fondly grasped each others er s hand h and and with a parting fare w aci ell 1 11 and in an expressed confidence confidence thia in a few moments they would met mee t tn heaven they sprang g into the sea the writer of the tha letter states that af after ter sustaining himself in in the he t water by means of a lift life preserver for four hours during whir which h tune hi his s contemplations contemplation of a future state dipene ripened d into a wy in in believing 1 I in his savior such as he e had never before experienced a vessel hove in sight for his release so that just at the moment when his e exhausted ed energies brought the open door of ilea heas ven en more temptingly to view view be was made the subject of an earthly rescue the reading in of the letter referred to elicited an outburst it of feeling all over ov er the room philadel aja press C 1 |