All He Knew

attractions. When Sam Kimper entered, however, the place seemed so immense and the throng so great that nothing but the bulk of the

tened man cast his eyes appealingly towards his keeper,-for such was the relation he fe

It's a shame to have a fellow like me talkin' to good

m before men, Samuel, if you e

an' the judge? Didn't I tell Nan and the children? I ain't seen anybody else yet, o

Samuel, if you've got t

a dead-su

tain

as literally a "packed house,"-the first one the church had ever known on a prayer-meeting night. The deacon immediately let his own voice out a little more, for he felt personally complimented by the large attendanc

hould the fellow become thoroughly frightened, he might not be able to say anything; this would be disappointing to the assemblage, and somewhat humiliating to him who had announced the special attraction of the evening. Sam's opportunity must come at once; he,

ho left us, against his will, I may say, about two years ago, found the pearl of great price in the cell of a prison. He has come here to-night to testify to the hope that is within him. He feels that he is weak and halting of speech, but, bl

d down at the cushion of the seat in front of him; then he tried to look around, but there was so much hard curiosity in each face upon which his eyes f

the prison a man come along that talked to me about Jesus like I never was talked to before. Somehow I could understand what he was drivin' at. He made me feel that I had a friend that I could foller, even if I didn't keep up with him all the time, owin' to things in the road that I hadn't knowed about. He told me if I'd b'lieve in Jesus as I b'lieved in Andrew Jackson, I'd pull

ed, and he did not know, at such short notice, how to answer them. Suddenly a hymn was started by a voice which every one knew, though they seldom heard it in prayer-me

ldier of

ite of an occasional kind greeting, was endeavoring to escape from the hard stare of curious eyes, Mrs. Judge Pre

eech I ever heard in an experience meeting

ith fixed countenance to the lady's remark. He followed Sam from the

sappointed me. It wasn't all there. There w

deacon. I said

got at the beginning of things. No church'll take yo

e course of time, deacon,

anything about your hope of salvation, nor the atonem

l my troubles an' wrong doin's have come of not livin' right: s

ut dying as well as li

as dyin' 'll take care of me if I get in th

You must believe what all Christians believe, if you want to

when I was in that jail; an' sometimes

don't understand. You're groping

u mean I don't understand

Christ in you th

w what you m

sacrifice has been made

follow yo

right at all. You haven't been conver

ment, "that what I'm believin' about Jesus

but-but you've begun wrong end first. What a sinne

e, deacon. There's nothin' hard about dyin'; leastways, you'd think

can't understand these things for yourself, y

, who's a square man an' a good deal smarter than I be, talks polit

Jackson Democrat himself. "I'll have to tal

ight, d

Kimper, who had followed closely behind, and who

an' chances; an' yet I've heerd so

ut which was without occupant except the baby. Then, by the light of the coals still remaining in the fire-place, he looked th

n or no deacon,-stick to Him