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June 9, 1909. THE PRESBYTERIj Contributed A PRAYER. Oft In Thy purple twilight, Lord, Wlstftil I linger, waiting there, 'Till the night-wind breathes a low sweet chord Of mystic prayer. For lo! the shadows steal across the skies, And vainly we have walked when in the light; When far within the West the sunset dies, Guide Thou our steps aright. Teach us, we pray Thee, how to pray, In the evening cool, the morning bright, In the quiet peace of Thy dreamy day, Or the bush of night. For now the rose has faded to the gray. Like visions of our youthful long ago, But far beyond, the darkened hills, away, Return a last, faint glow. Then, when the darkness dims the track That leads where rippling rivers flow ., Round fcl.e distant isles of* peace, send back Thine after-glow. Lo! in Thy great dawn-burning. Lord, The shadows flee from sea to sea, My wandering soul, in a whispered word, Goes out to Thee. For now the wind that wanders off the dawn Fans the faint flush into a rising flame; O Lord, ere yet the spell of night be gone, Absolve my soul from blame. Benjamin C. Moomaw, Jr. Washington and Lee University. PROTESTANT WORK IN FRANCE. Report From the Pastor Supported by the Huguenot Society of Richmond, Va. Our general activity has been intense and abundantly blessed this winter. Our large Fraternity Hall at Sousle-Bois was found several times too small and almost' every Sunday evening it has been filled with calm, thinking and touched listeners. What a blessing and what an answer to our anxious prayers. The Sunday morninc audiences have never heen en Inrore in cr?if?? r\( the severity of the weather. The two great events of the winter have been the temperance campaign of the "Blue Cross" and the rescue work attempted among fallen women and wayward young girls. We have been able to help efficiently several poor women, and we pray that God may save them entirely. Among the men who have joined the temperance society of the "Blue Cross," one, nicknamed The Terror of Sous-le-Bois, committed every kind of villainous deed to obtain drink. Several times he attempted to kill his wife and children. "All happiness comes together today," cried his wife, when their little boy was baotized the same dav r?n whirh hie foi-h?. joined the "Blue Cross." They have paid over 900 francs of debt in less than a year, rising at 4 o'clock to go to work and going to bed at 10 at night. I fol ? _ *N OF THE SOUTH. lowed him like h- , shadoxy f< overflowing with joy, he gave to his Saviour with such h< hall (5O0 persons), who kne\ applauded. Another, a painter by trad< day, was the despair of his ol two members of the Society (c absinthe drinker), he was take returned every day to pray wit he consented to be present at 1 was saved, he signed the pled fully ever since. He never mi TT_ ne carries joy and peace whe a brewer, forty-four years old glasses of beer a day, without c 16th year, a kind of premature one evening by the above men ing consisting mainly of brigh prayer, depicting the shame wh of a drunkard. Profoundly toi the unfortunate man did not ( by tomorrow all would be fo take a whole day to consider, cerely. He has not had a sinj moment. A fourth, a farm k Aubenge. Not daring to shoi account of his creditors, he ski the church. They were singing the sermon I denounced the s manner that he believed himsel rebuked. Nevertheless, he ren on in his soul and before tl promised to God, "I shall give ever, and I shall return to this in Thy way." He kept his w workers, were indignant at th wasted a great part of their li told of the Gospel or spoken to wne 01 one 01 tnem aiea a mar man' drank alcohol for two w< was made sick by it and on h and children buy drink for hir was gone, they sold all their f which covered the children, when through the "Blue Cros: home. I would never come to an < rejoicings and triumphs recoi of our reformed friends did m as sergeant and organized scr A sergeant-major, whose prom for a long time by his intemp< and at once began to convert his evenings with his wife, doii having a civil appointment ir the age for his retirement. T stopped drinking and the ca Unly pne old adjutant continue does not give up his hope of \v get him," he says. We have that, in our country if the evai hard?modifying gradually the 7 jr over four years, then, an evidence of gratitude jartiness that the entire v him well, cheered and s, who was drunk every d parents. Picked up by >ne of them was a former n home. The young men h him until the day when one of our meetings. He ge and has kept it faith HIV ilHTCHIIgS. ;rever lie goes. A third, , drinking from 15 to 2c :ounting alcohol, from his :ly aged giant, was taken tioncd painter to a meett talks, with singing and ich hangs over the family jched, feeling his misery, lare to sign, fearing that rgotten. He decided to meanwhile praying single temptation from that iborer, came one day to v nimseir in the city on rted the canal and passed \ and he went in. During in of drinking in such a f recognized and publicly lained. A struggle went le sermon was over ]ie up the cup to Thee forchurch and learn to walk ord. Two others, metal e thought that they had ves without having been ? about temperance. The tyr to his vices. Another ;eks without ceasing; he is bed he made his wife n. When all the money urniture to the last quilt Everybody was happy 5" the Lord entered that end if I wrote of all the rded in this land. One ilitary duty last summer ne temperance meetings, otion was made doubtful :rance, signed the pledge others. He now spends ig algebra and geometry, 1 view when he reaches he captain and sergeants nteens were abandoned. ;s to drink, but the major inning him over. "I will proved a thousand times igelist is willing to work ; family and social life?