s of a
certain man and his wife with their half-dozen drunken boarders, which
she was compelled to witness in the other end of the house weekly, or as
often as pay-day came around. "I can't bear it," said she. "Are you then
praying," said I; "Where is your faith?" A few day's later, at the
mother's meeting, another woman said, with much feeling, "Won't you
present the temperance cause again tonight? My husband and several
others wish to join your organization." I did. And who were the first to
present themselves as candidates for the white ribbon but that same
woman and her husband? Twenty-three others in the congregation followed
suit, and all again stood forth hand in hand--token of unbroken
friendship--a spectacle to angels and mortal man. By this time, to our
great joy, Brother Pope had returned, and he assigned me to my proper
place after one of his own rousing appeals.

To give you a general idea of the power of this work, which continued
with unflagging interest to the last, allow me to cite two or three
instances of conversion. One, a man who had shot and killed three
notorious burglars, was tried for legal informality and acquitted on the
ground of the public weal. This was two years ago, and the people who
knew and understood him well, said that he had enjoyed no peace of mind
since. Notwithstanding all, he was, and is, a man of power and
commanding influence, and has entered heartily into the work and
interests of the A.M.A., as Brother Pope can assure you. Another, a
younger man, likewise implicated in a murder last Fourth of July, and
committed to jail for a time, the particulars of whose case I am
unacquainted with, cried out in open congregation, "Pray for me, I am
the vilest sinner that ever lived," and dropped upon his knees in sore
agony of body and soul to join in prayer with the Christians present. As
the latter arose and began singing, "Come, humble sinner," he stepped
right forward exclaiming, "By the grace of God I will, I will," and at
that moment the great change might be read in the heavenly expression of
his changed countenance. Yet another young man, a boon companion in sin,
cried out in the same way and came forward kneeling for some time, and
then rising said, "I have found God; he is good; come, my friends, and
find him, O come," repeating these words as he passed through the
wondering congregation till he came to me, when grasping my hand, he
exclaimed, "Praise the Lord that ever he sent