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Show WHAT MOST IMPRESSED HIM. How Young Moody Came to Admire Fortitude of Stsphtn. 1'aul I). Moody, sou of tho evangelist, evangel-ist, was a class deacon and a power of righteousness in his clans at Yale WW. To hla slrenglh of character were added ruuipnulouuhlo qualities that mudo him very populur with his fellows. One day Haul was Induced to get Into tho exhilarating gaiuo of "nigger Through a conspiracy It devolved baby" a favorite campus pastime, upon blm to pay tho rigorous penulty of tho game, which consisted In crouching against Alumni hall while tho other participants, fifty feet away took three shots each at him with a tennis bail, (ireat was the hope of the 1'hlllstlnei that a worldly, lln-deaconllke lln-deaconllke cry would burst from the target at some stinging hit, but none rame. "I guess you swure under your breath once or twice, anyway; now, didn't you, Taul?" a fellow player asked, when the ordeal was over. "No, I didn't," replied Moody frankly. frank-ly. "Hut, 1 tell you when 'Hob' Ilob-ertson Ilob-ertson (the 'Varsity pitcher) was throwing. I appreciated as never heforo the magnificent fortitude of tilephen. the stonel martyr." |