ce in Scott County, Tenn., where I held a ten days' meeting,
this fact of the Holy Spirit's power and the blessedness of the
Christian religion was most beautifully illustrated, as the following
incident will show.

When I began preaching there the neighborhood was in a universal state
of ferment. Fussings, fightings, hard feelings between neighbors were
everywhere; and between denominations most bitter prejudice and cruel
jealousies. There were men there, close neighbors and kinsfolk, who
had not spoken to each other for three years. Some were so angry with
each other that they were fighting occasionally and trying to kill
each other. They came to church with their pistols in their pockets to
shoot each other, and I expected that we might have war in the church
yard at any time and men killed. But while they held their thumbs on
their pistol hammers I wielded the hammer of God's word with
unrelenting force. While they were getting ready to fire revolvers I
was firing red hot gospel shot into them with deadly effect. Their
hard hearts softened, they weakened, they fell before the sword of the
Spirit. Strong men broke down and wept like children. Grasping each
other by the hand, embracing each other in their arms amidst a flood
of tears, they confessed to each other their faults, and begged pardon
and prayed and shouted as I never saw men do before in my life.
Hostile enemies were made happy friends, would-be murderers were
converted to God, hard feelings among neighbors were swept away,
denominational prejudice was forgotten, and brotherly love and
Christian peace reigned supreme. And besides this some twenty-five
precious souls were saved; among them an old grandmother was brought
to Jesus. And still the good work goes on.

Praise the Lord for His wonderful love and for His mighty power which
He has manifested in the salvation of precious souls.

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THE POOR HELPING THE POOREST.

_A Charming Picture of Self-Sacrifice._

PROFESSOR F. T. WATERS.

The extreme poverty among many of the colored people of Wilmington, N.
C., led me to think that there would be many families that would have
no Christmas gifts unless given by those who could spare, even from
their scant living, a portion to be given to those wholly destitute.
Accordingly I invited the children in all the rooms in Gregory
Institute to bring such offerings as they were willing to make, to be
afterward distributed