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Show A MCORIXG GIVEN Mr rsther Is itlu 10 Newport-" Fashionable- lolfc. NEWPOrtr, Sept. 8. The fashionable fashion-able society of this place never listened lis-tened to such a scoring before as was given them U1I3 evening by Father IgnaUus , the IJencdictlcu monk, who recently came to this country from England to establish his order here. He Is a man above six feet high, wiUi a fine spiritual fcee. He spoke from tlie pulpit of SLCJeor("'epbcopalChun.h, that which Is attended by all Uie leaders or thu world of f-lilon, nearly all ot whom were present. ."Are there any Macdalcnshere?" This was the startling question with which this new Savonarola opened his discourse. He spoke on Christ's lat week at Bethany. He drew s Kraphlc picture or Mary MagdaleC rhe was a woman or wealth and culture and she brought precious ointment for the feelof tbe Savior. She was anxlom to lead a new life. The people stood aghast when they saw her familiarity. They knew her past life, aud, .though proferfing to be Christians, they lo-1 sight or the fact tnat Christ knew all about her and they CStted her. Tlie speaker then, in n most dramatic dra-matic manner said: Sin. haJ gone too far; she was a faded flower, but here tonight let me say that 1 thank God that there was a Mary Manila-len. Manila-len. She came to Cbnst and ,ub-lfcly ,ub-lfcly Ira", forgiven. Mary Majrda-lens Majrda-lens tbSJ b? found all over the world and Uiey should be glvin a helping hand. What Christ did for Mary Magdalen at Bethany He is doing for counUess women all over the world." In eloquent words tbo good man bescechtd his hearers tb turn from the error of their ways. When ho had bidden adieu to this fashionable elty he should expext to receive iev-tefi iev-tefi from men and women whom he likened to lazarus "If I weru a American and better bet-ter acquainted with 70"," said Uie speaker,"! would ask all the Mary Magdalens and all the Lalarne to staud up, as I have often done before be-fore where I have labored, but 1 cannot do it here tonight." His closing remarks wer powerful, power-ful, eloquent, and Intensely dramatic. dra-matic. Ills audience was spellbound spell-bound n't r icy were roofed to tears. NeV was surh a scene witnessed wit-nessed iu New pot I itrr. His appeals ap-peals were very utheti. ilo will fill a three months' mission In I s-tou s-tou in OctoWr and one In Ntrsr York probably in November. |