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Show , -How, Prayer-SavedenrButler - Hfe Lengthy Petition, When a Graceless College' Yduii, - IverW i7jc Justitiable Wrath of the Facuity--Final ' i .-J Scriptural Text That "Was Remarkably Apropos. Now-.that Cten, Butler's familiar 'fdrm. lias';'gtiie from us, reminiscences reminis-cences of hia boyhood days, before is indomitable' will and courage had won. for him the fame of his manhood, are- in orders Among others, the following fol-lowing amtising story is told of his college "life:1 . "Ben" received his college educa-iion educa-iion in Colby, and is remembered in Waterville as a good-natured, studious youth, and rather fond of a joke. v.-One day there came to that small -Maine Village a jeweler from Boston, who started a shop in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of the college. He had rather a good opinion of himself, and by his arrogance managed to bring upon his well greased head the ire of the college col-lege boys. '"' " One night his sign disappeared, and the jeweler, suspecting the collegians, complained to the faculty, and a search of the college dormitory was immediately instituted. As luck would have it "Ben" was the guilty youth,' and hearing the faculty making the rounds and having the sought-for sign on the wall of his room, with its flaring letter staring him in the face, the affair looked rather serious. But his quick wit came to the rescue, res-cue, and, hastily kindling a fire, he thrust the sign into the grate and smiled at his own ingenuity. But, alas! the sign was tough and burned all too slowly, while the search party could be heard drawing nearer and nearer. ; What was to be . done to escape es-cape the impending calamity?. Suddenly there popped into Ben's mind a regulation of the: faculty, In the terms of which it was forbidden that a student's room should be entered enter-ed for any purpose whatsoever while its occupant was engaged in prayer. So, dropping on his knees near the door, Ben commenced a long petition, telling his room-mate to tend the fire and to pull his coattails when all vestiges ves-tiges of the Jeweler's sign had disappeared. disap-peared. Soon steps were heard in the hall, which stopped in front of his room. What was that that reached them through the keyhole?- A voice, raised in earnest prayer, seeking forgiveness of sins past, present and future, for blessings on those present and on those who would fain be within. Meantime Mean-time the sign was slowly but surely burning, while the labor of his exertion exer-tion was bringing out the perspiration on Ben's brow. The faculty waited with bowed head for the conclusion of his apparently interminable prayer. At last it came, and at the following follow-ing words the door opened, exposing the pious inmates just rising from their knees: "And an unrighteous generation shall seek for a sign, but no sign shall be given them." Boston Herald. |