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Show THE REVIVALIST AN 0 THE PRINTtKS. Brother 1 1 amliioia!, if he didn't lir up a revival, ei rlninly was hiicceH.-tuI in Mailing up a row in Iho government govern-ment printing ullice, at Washington, last Week, that made thing lively in the yellow wash i'd pile for hall a day. i laiiiiiiond asked tho eupei inti ndent lor periniaMoii to enter the working rooms and pray, and ex In rt others to It 'How Ion I'xainple. Tin wan refiiof d, ;im it would ereatu eonlu-iion and pro-vent pro-vent work. He then nuked to be permitted per-mitted to pray in Iho hall-way. "Well, if you've got a praying til oil you, pray by all meand, but draw tt mild," said tho kii perm tend en t, wearh d by the rovi v.i hut's importunity. impor-tunity. Hammond went into lite hall, , shouldered his j u st , and lifting up hit mouth, begun to orate on that charm, nig and pi fas-ant paragraph. "Do-pait, "Do-pait, ye cuts- d, into tverhntiug hell lire!" Aeeoiding to Ihu niu.-d approved style ol pieatrhiTu, he elevated his voire; mi the lu.t word till the echo ul "lire!" sounded like a death-warrant throughout Ihu building. With a wail of lamentation auu woe the femal.! emplojei, catching up the al.iiin, lc,in.'d from their work 'and rut.'nd out ol the doors in a mixed-up comLluiii of fear, confnaiun and love-liin', love-liin', into tin- hull, where the revival-iot revival-iot stood preaching the word of peace and preparing the way (or tho iamb. He thought their sudden Btamnwle was due lu the power ol his eloquence and a strong desire to hear hid sermon. ser-mon. "Thai's right! that's right!" he cried. "I hat's how I liko lo see it. I like to see you come booming along nkc 1. 1 vi hum his country tabjue, like Saul Sybla, lUe ." At liiis moment mo-ment a lre,-h stream of frightened pl in;?i.-. htruek lue a!oni-hid crowd in tin: back, and the two combined Went over the reViVali.-ta like- a swollen stream over a sand bar. Tne itsum-if itsum-if h tl d:ino was ttriirk dumb with awf at the violence of their ruvial, and '-ai rifd al ng under their fed the ! lith of the iiiiwiiy with such force lti.it ah tin' nvival uis cril.iheii out ol hint, and by the lime be fell down two il'chls ol nlair.1 be hardly thought it wan in wnile to continue his prayers ; r tli.it Cay , and leaving the printing ollii-e lo quiet itrlf the be si way it cou.d, loi.k the lira tram tor the other e: d ol the city. |