9a mm the TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON. OREGON. Al’KH. 13, 1S9!> it is. Y<m are tired of deceit, tired on infant dam nation: he d id n ’t know where. And he A Brand From the Burning. T hen to th e Bar all th ey drew near, heard the organ again; this tim e of hypocrisy, tired of the hollow W ho die in infancy, And never had or good or bad R I F F I T H , the reporter loader, and a congregation cboro world. You wish to forsake all Effected p ere’n a lly ; wearily folded hie notes on ' He awoke. He straightened up th a t is evil and cling to all th a t is B ut from th e wom b u n to th e tom b W ere stra ig h tw a y carried , __ Rev Dr. Banting’s long and glanced around to eee if any- good.” (Or a t th e least ere they tran g ress d.) Griff saw it was no use to say sertnon and leaned forwar.l when body had noticed him , then grabbed W ho th u s liegan to plead. the evangelist said, “ Let us p ra y ,” a hym n book and jum ped to Ins any th in g more. He was as th o r The infants protested against b e oughly converted to his fate as till his forehead rested on the edge feet. ing punished for Adam s sin in an of the back of the next pew. W hen Dr. R an t.n g concluded need he. They led him unresisted argum ent of considerable length: The m inister prayed long and his invocation, he looked out over — a meek, contrite young m an— up Then answ ered th e Judge m ost dread : earnestly in a canting monotone, the audience and saw G r in s head to the altar. And they prayed for “ God doth such doom forbid, varied only in effect by the sonor- still bowed as if to the most des- him such long and so m any prayers T h at m en sh o u ld die eternally th a t he began to fear seriously th a t For w hat th ey never did. ous “ aniens” th a t em anated from perate supplication. He e t en- But w hat you call old A dam ’s fall, all over the church. couraged at this m anifestation of the city editor would dem and to And only his trespass, know where he had spent the last You call am iss to call it his, , G riff’s prayer was, ‘ Lord, I ’m so the S p irit’s striving, Both his and yours it w as.’ tired !” Then he fell asleep. And “ Now,” said he, “ 1 want all those tw enty-four hours or so. W ould the city editor swallow this story F urther on the Judge says: no wonder. He had been up «U , who are C hnatian« to stand H ad you l>een m ade in A dam ’s stead , Everybody in the house, except of adventures the assignm ent had th e night before— poor fellow. You would like th in g s have w ro u g h t, brought about? Not he. And so in to th e self-sam e woe He dream ed. H e thought he Griff, rose to their feet. At last, however, it ended— the Y ourselves and yours have b ro u g h t. “ Praise the Lord for so m any,” was in a great church, sitting alone m ourning. But th a t was not quite in a back pew. The sermon was the m inister exclaim ed righteously, But abating his w rath, and re all. surveying the fruits of the \\ ord. over, and the pipes of the im m ense Dr. R an tin g called upon Griff to lenting a little, G o d delivers the “ Now,” he continued, looking organ sent notes trem bling forth testify before the congregation. final sentence in these words: askance at the still m ourning Griff, into the most beautiful harm onies Y et to com pare y o u r sin w ith th eirs Griff tried to brave it out. W ho liv ’d a longer tim e, he had ever heard. He leaned his “ we shall rem ain standing and “ I feel,” he said— you could I do confess yours is m uch less, sing hymn No. 249. And I want elbow on the pew end, and under T hough ev ’ry sin ’s a crim e. have heard a pin drop— “ I feel”— his hand closed his eyes. S ud those who would like to he C hris A crim e it is; th erefo re in bliss his voice quavered and he smiled You m ay not hope to dw ell, tians to sim ply rise to th eir feet— denly some one touched him lig h t the sm ile of the just, five hundred But u n to you I shall allow just rise where you are. All sing.” ly on the arm. He looked up. T he easiest room in hell. people thought—“ I feel th a t my During the first stanza nobody ‘‘Your pardon, sir, hut will you W hat th a t “ easiest room” is ap sins— my sins— ” rose, hut the exhortation given in tell me your name? I set you here “ Speak out, brother,” a g ra y pears further on: the interlude had its apparent ef so often in these revival meetings.” haired saint encouraged. B ut who can tell th e plagues of hell It was a wonderfully handsom e fect. The second verse of the hymn And to rm e n ts e q u isite? “Sins are for—” W ho can relate th e ir dism al sta te was begun, and it was really this voung woman, who spoke in a low, “ Shout, if you w ant to, son,” Ami te rro rs in fin ite? silvery voice. She stood in an a t th a t waked Griff out of his sweet put in an o th er lifetime church m em W ho fare th e b est am i feel th e least, Y et feel th a t p u n ish m e n t titude of religiously-subdued pride, slum ber. When he stood up every ber. W hereby to n a u g h t they would I k * looking at him — and oh, what glor m inister on the pulpit platform — Griff did shout, hut it « a s not b ro u g h t at least a dozen—cried: “ Praise If God did n o t p rev en t. ious eyes! Her face was pale with the kind of shout they anticipated T he least degree of m isery a Hort of evangelical excitem ent. the Lord! The Lord h ath tr i rom his swelling— alm o st-to -b u rst There felt is in c o m p ara b le; Griff took his tim e to reply. He um phed!” ing— m anner. It was a shout The h ig h est pain th ey th e re su stain The congregation turned and Is m ore th a n in to lerab le. stared at her a moment, deliber som ething like “ ppt-f-f-f-f-f—ha, B ut G o d ’s own pow ’r from hour to looked a t the convert and sang ately. ha, ha, ho, ho, hoho, ha, ha, h ah a, hour with increased feeling. The m inis U pholds th em in th e fire, “ Griff,” he finally said, “or— I he, he, he, Itehe, he!” T h a t th ey shall not consum e a jot ters, led by Dr. R anting, hastened m ean— Mr. Griffith to you or, as He afterw ard told his friends: Nor by its force ex p ire . down the aisle. The doctor grasped you please.” “ I couldn’t have held in if I had This poem was immensely popular “ Mr. Griffith, are you a C hris Griff’s hand and squeezed it with died th<- next m in u te.’’ tian?” she asked at once with great the strength of Samson. Now another man does the Rev. for more th an a century. Nor did A nother I). 1)., whose sermons concern. Dr. R an tin g ’s revivals for Griff’s all orthodox preachers repudiate in “ No, miss—or m adam e,” he re Griff had often reported, patting paper.—Selected. fant dam nation ir. the early p art of him on the back, declared: “ My plied, with a smile; and with mock this century. Fifty years ago elderly m ournfulness, “ I ’m only a news hoy, I have been w aiting for weeks Anent Infant D am nation. persons assured me they had heard to see you ta k e this step.” paper reporter.” it preached from the pulpit, and G riff was, for a brief period, too She started to laugh, hut recol The Rev. Dr. Talm age, in a ser fifty-seven years ago, at the funer lecting th a t it would be a sin, dazed to speak or to offer any re mon says: sistance. At length lie stam m ered checked herself. “ If you will bring me a P r e s b v - al of my niece, aged seven years, to Dr. R anting, who held his arm “ C an’t you be both?” terion of good m orals and sound the Rev. E lisha Y ale, D. D., of in a vice-like grip: G riff shook his head and gazed mind who will sav th a t he helieves Kingshoro, N. Y., a P resbyterian, “ Doctor, I ’m afraid — I think, a t the carpet in the aisle. there ever was a hahy in the lost expressed doubt of the salvation of “ Don’t you feel th a t you could doctor—yes, sir, I was asleep.” world, or ever will he, I will m ake the child. T hat doubt is quite “ Too true, my boy, too tru e,” re love C hrist who died for you ?” him a deed to the house I live in .” com patible with the “ Confession of He looked up quickly into the plied the indefatigable m inister 1 have before me a book en titled sw’eet, earnest face, and whispered, “ Ah, ‘could ye not watch one “ The Day of Doom,” by Michael F a ith ,” which says: “ Even infants, dying in infancy, a little huskily, not loud enough hour?’ ” W igglesworth, pastor of the church are regenerated and saved by “ I was very tired when I came for her to hear: “ I think I could at M alden, Mass., first published in C hrist, through the Spirit, who love somebody better who would in, to tell the tru th ,” said Griff, 1662. The au th o r describes the worketh when and where and how with the glim m er of a hope of get live for m e.” last judgm ent in a poem of 224 He pleaseth. So also are o ther el ting out of the predicam ent. But “ W hat? W hat did you say?’’ stanzas. Cotton M ather, who ect persons, who are incapable ot in the singing and outbursts of “Oh, nothing.” preached the funeral serm on of being called by the m inistry of “ Excuse me, you did, though; praise the explanation was m isun W igglesworth in 1705, said: “ The yes, it was som ething. Come, tell derstood. Dr. R anting raised his ‘Day of Doom,’ which has been the W ord.” —Chap, x, sec. 3. At the tim e of th a t funeral I was voice high above all, saying: “ Our me now; let me help you.” often reprinted in both E nglands, “ You wouldn’t like to hear w hat brother here says he was asleep, may find our children till the day a member of Dr. A ale’s church, I said— I know you w ouldn’t. I but he is now awakened to a reali itself arrive.” And the epitaph on and I doubt not th a t even then there were some Presbyterian zation of his sin.” c a n ’t tell vou.” W igglew orth’s tomb, believed to preachers who believed in infant “ Doctor,” protested Griff, ap “ But you have some unhappi have been w ritten by M other, ends dam nation and avowed it. But ness. W on’t you tell m e?” pealing to another preacher who with these words: now you m ight not find a good H er tone was so gently per- stood by, “ I don’t w ant to deceive He to hit* P arad ise is joyful com e. suasive. He was actually about to you. I don’t want to stand here And w aits w ith joy to see his Day of enough P resbyterian to enable one to win the prize offered by Dr. Doom. confess, *'I love you, first; I ca n ’t and play the hypocrite. I— ” W. H. BI RR. I now quote Wiggle wort h ’s verses Talm age. “ We believe you. We know how help it,” when she slipped away,