| Show allion IS CHIMES HELPS TO conversion the right reverend reve beve rend major general john jobu P newman of the methodist episcopal metropolitan memorial church with the chimes attached has we are pained to say suffered irl iri injustice justie po at our hands wo we hasten with christian zeal tor to make the them thew nce we see lehow lebow it lofv it is stra strange inko injo that thae we never saw it before but the rt rev hev john PIS P 10 an umble bumble b instrument in the bands of divine providence for the accomplish ment of great works in this way he defeated the hon uon harlan and gave allison to the senate Sen ben site and now we learn through a communication of his addressed addre beed ased to the new that he has hns gathered gathe into the thit fold the president the thit vico vice president and many members of congress ly Js is apt this doin doln doing dolne kaland ealand a land office the sinners As we have saidee sald said he prays for all nil our rulers save and except the hou hon speaker blaine the honorable hl ono rable rabie SV speaker gaker gauer wont be gat gathered herdd berdd in hence the thit lack of df prayers nay have vilified abd abil scandalized zd in the most outrageous and abominable manner those chimes hear binion himna them chimes the bells call all the children to sunday school and the people to the house hoube of the lord these bells b have bave av e their mission and their sweet notes have awakened religious reli rell giona emotions in many a heart As in mournful num berb hers they rang the old year out as in joyful sounds they rang rarig the mew year in I 1 their notes aroused fro froan jn his blum plum bers bera one of the most prominent phy clans brought to his mind of early memories awaken ed deep emo eno tinna tiona and ho he resolve resolved dl tobo to pe a better man good goed think of that most prominent of lotions and po tlona tiona sufi bufi suffering erin brin g from arr attack of deep emotion and rearing in his night linen to hold a memorial meeting nie eting and resolve resol vel vei it is touching we only wish our doctor slept within bound sound of those chimes we would like to have his medi medicated gated dated ear saluted and his bis hardened old heart touched touch ed nid by the clang whang ing until he would have emotions perhaps he would not clap on a blister and say shy eo 0 unfeelingly let it remain until it draws handsomely thunder draw handsome handsomely lyl then it might amme affe i his bills that are harder to take than lis lia goluses boluses bo luses go it ye chimes again it the twilight of christmas ere they chimed C come ye disconsolate and their tender notes dotes fell upon the ear enrot of a refined but afflicted lady in a different part oj of the city and brought consolation to a broken heart this ia sweet we may bay say that it ia touching think of that lady that is not only refined but afflicted in a different part of the city we dont know what sort of a it is to be afflicted in a different part of the city but it must be terrible then the chimes helped her we beg pardon come to look at it the reverend gen peU meaos thattie th the refined ret ref lopol aud ami afflicted lady was ata at a distance from the chiff chimes mes ibs wf have known some refined and afflicted ladles ladies nearer the chimes who fairly jump out of their refined skins when the cl clanging anding begins in this case it was distance that lent enchantment again so effectually do they preach jesua by chiming the sweet songs we sing that a stranger a guest in abne one olour of our hotels and withal a shiner binner was awakened 1 and led to christ holiness shall be written on tho the bells of the tho horbes 1 11 now we maintain that this last is the i most miraculous conversion of all it beats the hardened old doctor and the refined and afflicted lady at a distance thie the chimes penetrated a hotel they smote smon upon the ears or of a lobby agent for was he nob not a sinned sinner withal and converted him what a shame the learned divine doah doeh not tell ua us what hap hav happened eneal then did he leave the lobby did he return his little retainer and throw up his contingent wed like to know tho the chimes have only to penetrate those hotels and eon con convert v e t a landlord and we conie come down we s see e ho how witts it is the lu infernal row coming out with the terrible clanging on the midnight air awakens and scares them to death with thes no 1 baethe mav may expect hereafter but we bumb y suggest guf guj gest that if tile he chimes are so effect ive lve lve ive why not run on the chime chimes 8 and dispense with the minister the closing quotation refers to professor pratt the horse torturer who whelped get up this holy noise it IB good we may say again good enough but the most important part of this theological llam liam Is where we are told among the more recen recent t converts con eon verts is the japanese prince Koda mame a young man of twenty years who W ja reading law in in the office of judge george P fisher one of the stewards of f our church we think a young heathen heat heuy heny of the the impious name of Koda mame and badly spelled at that mit a K 11 ought to be converted and suddenly 1601 baptized into a less profane cogno men we have not the space to follow the eloquent parson through his entire effort it atis is eloquent ho he is in good society every sentence carries the thie odor of wealth the churches are elegant great men throng them high officials are affected over the vat van riches here and yet to come the oily reverend smacks his mouth there a poor devil in tche tue whole affair the rhe foundry church is in the midst of our beat residences A church is needed on east capitol hill where several blocks of elegant residences residence aly afy a are we are made acquainted wih congressmen wealthy citizens judges judge of the supreme court cabinet officers while the president and vice president are on nn exhibition in every paragraph how about putting this th is holy camel through the eye of that needle washington capital |
