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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.' ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY HAT 25, 1886 .rr TALMAGE’S SERMON, PHCACHED YESTERDAY IN BROOK LYN TABERNACLE. Hue Groat Birina YrMeawtealreont ot an imi of Bmoai on to. Labor Qanntlon - Tha Subject Being Sow Xnslogen Ought to shell Bmplojee. stc. ; Bbooklyk, N. T., M»j 23.—[Special,]—Kev, I. DcWitt Tslmsge, D. D„ today prcachod the second in hb series of sermons on the great ltbor dlecnsalon, the suidect' being: “How £m|doyers Ought to Treat Employes.” The tipeniug hymn was: ■ "Glory to (Sod on high. ■ - Let heaven and Osttb reply.” Dr; Talmage chose two texts, the first from Galatians r. 15: "If ye bito and devour one sttotfehr. teke heed that ye'bo not contamed cnoof another;” and PhllippUns ii.-fc “Look mht every man on his own things, bat eTory man also on the things of others.” Following - is the sermon in full: Tho labor agitation will toon quiet. The miib will again open, the railroadi*reani their traffic, our national proeperltiea again •start. Of course, the damage done by the strikes cannot immediately be repaired. V.’ages will not bo so high as they wore. Spasmodically they may he highor, hat they trill drop lower. Strikes, whether right or Wrong, always Injure laborers more than tbp capitalists. Yon will see Mb In the starvation of next winter. Boycotting and vlolenco and murder never pay. They are different stages of anarchy. Goa never blessed murder. The worst use yon can put a man to b to kill him. Blow up tomorrow all tho country Beats on tho banks of the Hud son, and all the fine housee on Madison Bqnaro and Brooklyn heights, and Bunker lull, and Bittonhouse square, and Beacon Btrrct.and all the bricks and timber and atones will just fall back on tbo bare bands of fftmriiran labor. The worst enemies of the ■working classes in the United States and Ire land arc their demented coadjutors. Ac:,situation—the assassinations of Lord JFredt rick Cavendish and Hr. Burke in Pine nix park, Dublin, Ireland, in the attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turned away from that afllicted people mllllous of sympathisers. Tho attempt to blowup tho house of commons, In London, had only this effect—to throw out of employment tons of thousand! of innocent Irbh people In England. In this country tho torch put to the fkctorlet tbatbnvo discharged band! for good orbed rea son, obstructions on the rail-tncks In front of midnight express trains, because the offenders do not like tbo president of tho compsny; Strikes on shipboard the bourthey woro going to sail, Or in printing olficea tho hour tho paper was to go to press, or in the mines tho day the coil was to bo delivered, or on house scaffolding so the fcatldcr fails in keeping hb contract—all these are only a hard blow on tho head of American labor, and cripple Its arms, and lame its foot, and pierce lb heart. Traps sprung suddenly upon employers, and vio lence never took one knot ont of the knuckles of toll, or put one farthing of wages Intoacal- Iona palm. Barbarism mil never core tho wrongs of civilisation. Hark that! Fiedcrick tho Great admired somo land near hb paiaceat Potsdam, and resolved to got lk It waa'owned by a miller. He offered tho miller three times the value of tho property. The miller would not take it because it was the Did homestead, and be felt about as Naboth felt about his vineyard when Ahab wanted Ik Frederick the Great wai a rough and terrible man, and he ordered the miller Into hb proa- race, and tho king with a atlck in Mi-hand— a stick with which bo sometimes struck the offioers of state—eald to the miller: "Now I have offered yon threo times She value of that property, and If yon won't soil it I’ll take it anyhow.” Tho miller said: "Your majesty, yon won’t.” “Yes,” said tho ' king, “Iwill take It.” “Then," gatd tho mil- . Ibr,“ifyonrmaJoatydooatakoH I will auo you in tho ohancery court.” At that threat Frederick the Great yielded hb infamous do- ■ mand. And tho most imperious outrage against the working-classes will yet cower lielore the law. Vioionco and contrary to tho law will never accomplish anything, but righteousness and according to tho Uw will accomplish ik But gradually the damages done the laborer J>y tbo strike* will ho repaired, and somo im- portai.t things ought now to bo said. The whole tendency of our times, as you have noticed, Is to make tho chasm between employer and employe wider and wider. In olden timo tho head man of the fhetory, the master builder, the capitalist, the head man of the firm worked aide by side with their employes, working some times at tho samo bench, dining at tho same table: ciul there an those hen who can re member the time when the clerks of largo commercial establishments wen accustomed to board with the bead men of the firm. All that b changed, and the.tendency la |to make the dbtanco between employer and em- the at’ceesi capitalist Borers tho employe feel that ho b wronged by of toe capitalist, and to mako tho feel, only ‘Now my la- beaab of burden; . Beads of tweak” In other words, the bridge nfsynipathyb brnken down at both ends. ' That reeling was well described by Thomu Carlyle when he laid: “Plugaou, of bt. Dolly Undershok buccaneer-1 iko ■ays to hb men: "Noble apinnen, this b tho hundredth thousand we have gained, whoroln I mean to dwell and plant my vineyard. Tho bundled thousand pound b mine, tho dally Trago was your*. Adlon, noble spinners; drink my health with thb groat, each which I give you over and above.” Now what wo want b to rebuild that bridge Df sympathy, and I put the trowel to one of the abutments today; and I preach more especial ly this morning to employers at such, although what I have to my will be appropriate to all Who ora in tbo house. The outrageous behavior of a multitude of laborers toward tholr employer* during the last three months’ b*h*viortafkmou(analwor- thj of moat condign punishment, may . Induced some employers to neglect the real Christian duties that they owe to thorn whom they employ. Therefore I want to aay to you whom I confront face to face, and thooo to whom the** words may ootne, that all ship owners, all capitalists, all commercial firms, all master builders, all housewives are bound to Bo Interested in the entire welfare of their subordinates. Years ago some one gave them prescriptions for becoming a million, alre. Fink spend year life la getting and keeping the earnings of other people. Sec ondly: have notoriety abont the worrlmentc, the leases, the disappointments of others. Thirdly: do not mind the fket that year vast wealth impliei the poverty of a great many people. Now there b not a man m my audi ence who would consent to go out Into ltf* with those three principles to earn a fortune. It b your desiro to do yonr whole doty to tho men and women in yonr service. First of Ul, then, pay as large wages as are actionable and as yonr business will afford, Hot nrcemarily wbat others pay; certainly not wbat yonr hired help my yon most pay, for that is tyranny on tbo part of labor unbear able. The right of a laborer to tell hb em ployer wbat he must pay implies the right of su employer to compel a man into a servi- e whether ho will or not, and cither of tits. Ideas is despicable. When auy em ployer allows a laborer to my wbat be must do,' cr have his business ruined, and the em ployer mbmiti to it, he does every bucinesc man in the United .States a wrong and yields to a principle which, carried out, would dis solve society. Look over your affairs and pat yourselves in imagination in your laborer's place, and then pay him what before God and your own conscience you think you ought to ^“Godblesa yon’a” arc welljin theirplace, but they do not boy coal nor pay home rent, nor pt iboai for the children, At tho same time, yen, the employer, ought to remember through what straight! and strains you got the fortune ter which yon built yonr (torn or run the fac tory. Yon are to remember that yon taka all the risks and tho employe' takes none, or scarcely any. You are to remember that'”-- may be reverse! in fortune and that some —.. stylo of machinery may mako yonr machinery valneleor - — . business valueless, or some new stylo of tariff eot yonr em back hopelessly and forever. Yon most take all that Into consideration, and then pay what b reasonable. Do not be too ready to cat down wage. Ax Jar as possible pay all, and pay promptly. Thorn b a groat deal of Bible teaching on thla subject. Ualachi: “I will be a swift witness against all soroerem, and against all adulterers, and against those who oppresa the hireling in hb wages.” Leviticna: ‘Thou ahalt not koep tho wages of tho hireling all night onto the morning.” Colesatana: "Masters, give onto your servants that which is Just and equal, knowing that ye also have a Master m heaven.” So you see it is not a question be tween you and yonr employee*much as it is a question between yon and God. employes: “Now, If you . got another," when you know they cannot got another. As far as pos sible once a year visit at their homes, your clerks and yonr workmen. That b the way yon can become acquainted with wants. Yon will by snob process find out that there Is s blind parent or a sick sbtor being supported. Yon will find some of yonr young men in rooms without any fire In winter, and in rammer sweltering in ill-ventilated apart ments. You will find how much depends on the wages yon pay or withhold. On Saturday morning, when yon come into yonr counting- room and draw the check which will bring the young man, but the relief to tho diro ueccsrl- tles which stand back of him. Moreover, it b yonr duty as employer, u for ss possible, to mould the welfare of the employe. Yon ought to sdvbo him about investments, sbont life insurance, about sav ings banks. You ought to give him the bene fit of your experience, Thore aro hundreds and thousands of employers in this country and England, I am glad to say, who are settling In tho very boot poaslblo way the destiny of their employees. Such men as Marshall, of Leeds; Lister, of Bradford; Ak- royd, of Halifax, and men ao near at home It might offend their modesty if 1 mentioned their ntmes. These men have built reading- rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded cro quet lawns, cricket grounds, gymnasiums, Moral societies for tholr employes, and they have not merely paid the wages on Saturday night, but through the contentment and the thrift and the good morals of their employes, they are paying wages from generation to generation forever Again, I counsel all employers to look well after the physical health of their aubordiuatea. You are expected to understand better than they all these questions of ventibtion and ran- shine, and all the lawa of hygiene. There are atores and banking houses and factories and newspaper ostablbhmonts where tho atmosphere is doatb. Your employees may always appreciate your work, at that stylo of kindness was not appreciated In tho Charles Kendo, whoro was provided for the instance mentioned by Charles Keade, where la a great factory a Bur blowing awi and stone, the and soma of tbo workmen refined to pnt great fan in motion. They seemed to prefor to inhalo the filings, the poisonous filings, Into tholr lungs. But in tho vast majority of oasos fioyea will appreciate overy kludnoss away of tho dust of metal s, thodust arising from the machinery, t of the workmen refined to pnt this your employes w in that direction. I never conld understand why t our city cars mutt stand all day wnen tney might jut as well alt down and drive. It seems to me most unrighteous that so many of the fcmalo clerks In our stores should be compelled to stand all day, and throng those hours when then aro but few or no cutomors, Theso pcoplo havo aches and annoyance and weariness enongh without putting upon them additional fatigue. Unless those fcmalo clerks must go up and down on the bulncsa of the store, lot thorn sit down. At tho end of tho year you will find that thoy have sold as many goods and made as fine bargains—yea, better; for ono clerk with a clear brain and reated body and [radl- unco will sell more goods than two clerks with health, bedraggled. Then I would havo yon carry out thb uni tary idea, and'pnt Into aa few hours as possi ble the work of the day. Somo time ago— whether it hu been changed I know not— there were ono thonnnd grocer clerks In Brooklyn who went to bulnouat S o'clock in tho morning and continued until 10 o'clock at night. Now, that la inhnman. It seems to mo, all the merchants in all de partment* ought, by simultaneous move ment, to como out In behalf of the early cloaing theory. These young men ought to havo an opportunity of going to tho mercantile library, to tho read ing rooms; to tho concert hall, to the gymna- alum, to the church, Thoy have norves, thoy have brains,thoy have intellectual aspirations, they have Immortal spirits. If they ean do a ' round day’s work In tho ton or eleven , you havo no right to keep them har nessed for seventeen. 1 do not think that any Intelligent employer can afford to b* reckless of tbo physical and mental health of hb sub ordinates. But above all I charge you, O, employers, that you leek after the moral and spiritual welfare of your employes. Firak know where they spend tholr even- lu(S. That decides everything. You do not want around your money drawer a young man who went laat night to see Jack Shcppald, A man that comes into the store in the morning ghastly with midnight revelry, is not the man for your atore. The young man who spends hb evenings In the society of refined women, or in musical or artbtic circles, or tn literary Improvement, b the young man for yonr store. Without any dis gusting Inquisitiveness, without any imperti nence, yon onght to havoyonr young men an- drrstand that yon are interested so much In tbetr welfare that you want to know whore thoy •pend their leimre honra, and they will frank ly and gbdly tell yen. Do not say of there young man: "If thoy do tbi Ir work In the buiinres noun, that Is all I have to ask,” God has made you. that man's guardian. I want you to understand that msny of three young men are orphans, or worse than orphans, filing ont Into society to struggle for themselves. A young man b pitched Into tho middle of the Atlautie ocean and a plank b pitched after him, and then ha b told to take that amd swim ashore. Treat that young man aa yon would like to havo your ton treated if you wore dead. Be father to that dork. Than b nothing more beaotlfhl than to bear an aged mer chant addrearing hb clerks and saying, "My mV’ That young man in yosr employ has s history. Hb father was a drunkard. His fint remembrance of hb father eras the father coming home late at night Intoxicated and the children hiding under the bed frightened. Ami that young man has stood many a timo lie tween lather and mother keeping her from the brutal blow. He b prematurely old in trying to provido- fat too house' rent and clothing for hb younger brothers and listen. He may seem to yon like all other young men, but God and hb mother know no is s hero. At twenty years of age ho has suffered u much as many bar* suffered at slaty. Do not tiead on him. Do not swear at him. Do not send him on a useless errand. Say, “Good morning,” and “Good nlgbk” and “Goodbye.” Yon an deciding that man’s distil, y for two worlds One of my earliest remembrances u of old Arthur Tappan. There wore many differences or opinion about bis politics, but no one who ever knew Arthur Tsppan, and knew him well, doubted hb being an earnest Christian. In bis store In New York he had s room where evtiy morning he called bis employes to pi Ibcr, and bo prayed with them, read the gciiptnrce to them, rang with them, and then they entered on the duties of the day. On Monday miming the exercises differed, and he gathered the young men together and ask ed them where they had attended church, whst bad been their Sabbath experience* and wbat bad been thesermoa. .Samuel BadgcUbsdthe brgest business iu ti e writ of England. He had In a room of hi* warehouse a place pleasantly fiirnbhed with comfettabb scats sod “Fletcbor’s family devo tion*” and Woalapau hyrea boohs.and ho gath ered blf employes together every morning, and, having rang, thoy koolt down and pray ed sldo by eldo—the employer and the em- ptayee- Do yen wonder at that man’s success, and that though thirty years before, he had been a K irtner In a small retail shop in a small vib ge, at hb death he bequeathed many mill- ions. God ean trust-inch a man M that with plenty of money. Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was beyond one: _ i dinner, and there were thirty-five hundred people present, and in hb after dinner speech he said t0,thcse people look around me and oee __ of friends and work people without be ing moved. I feel greatly b oredby the prerence of tho nobleman at lido, and I am etpeeblly delighted at tho presence of my workpeople. I hope to draw around mo a population that will en|oy the beauties of thb neighborhood—a population of well-paid, contented, happy operatives I have given Instructions to my architects that nothing b to be spared to render the dwell ings of the operative* a pattern to the country, and if my life b spared by divine prorldtuoe, I hope to tee contentment, satisfaction and happiness around me.” That b Cbrbtbn character demonstrated. There are other* in thb oenntry and in other lands on a smaller scale doing their best for their employes. They have not forgotten their own early straggle*. They remember the first yard of nankeen they measured, tho lint quarter of tea they weighed, the first <o’d and how tired Soy were, and though thoy may be sixty or seventy years old, thoy know Just how a boy fools between ton and twenty, and how a young man feels between twenty and thirty. They havo not forgotten it. Thooo wealthy employers were not originally let down ont of heaven with pulley* or silk in a wicker basket, satin-lined, flutned by cheru bic wings. They started in roughest cradle, on whose rocker misfortune pnt her violent foot and Upped them into the cold world. Those old men are sympathetic with boys. But yon are notonly to lie kind to thoeewho aro under you—Christbnly kind—but yon aro also to eeo that yonr boos workman, and' ysuT head clerks, and yonr agenb, and yonr' overseers in stores aro kind to thoeo under them. Sometimes a man will get a little brief authority In a store knows what some of tho lads suffer In tho _ Ura and In the lofts of somo of our groat estab lishments. They have no tone to appeal to. Tho time will come when tholr arm will bo strong, and thoy can defend themselves; but you capitalbk you, tho head man of the firm, muct look, ranorvbe, see all those around you, investlgato all beneath yon, And then I charge yon not to put ' unneces sary temptation in the way of yonr young men. Do not keep largo rams of mon ey lying around unguafdod. Know bow much money there b in the till. Do not havo tho account books loosely kept. Thoro aro temptations inevitable to young men, and enough of thorn without yonr patting any unnecessary temptations in tholr way. Men in Wall street having thirty years of reputa tion for honesty have dropped Into Sing Sing and perdition, and yon must be careful how S ou try a lad of fifteen. And If he do wrong, o not ponnoe on him like a hyena. If he toll why 1 him to thou whd will rhy you givo bun another chance. Many a young man has done wrong once, who will never! do wrong again. . t Ah, mv friends! I think wo can afford to give everybody another chance, when God knows we should havo alL bun in perdition If bo bad not given ns ton thousand chancos. Then, if in moving around yonr factory, or mill, or barn, or store, you are Inexorable with yeung men, God will remembor It. Homo day the wheel at fortune will turn and yon wlu b* a pauper, and yonr daughter will go to tho —tkbmua* If In moving among yonr men you see ono with an ominous pallor or cheek, or yon hoar him coughing behind the counter, uy to him: mother die, do not demand that on the day after the funeral ho bo in tho store. Give him at least a week to got over that whloh ho will never got over. Employer*, urge upon your omployos abovo all, a religious llfo. Yon can do It. You are in a position not to bo langhod at, or scoffod ak or jeered ak You hold the keys of the estab- lbbmenk and by yonr position you demand reverence. Now, urgo all thou employee In to a religions life. So far from thak now b Ik young men? Instead of being cheered on tbo rood to heaven, urns of yon are caricatured, and it b a hard thing for you to hoop your Christian Integrity in that store or factory when there are so many hostile to religion. Ziethcn, a brave general under Feederick the Greek was a Christian. Frederick the Great was an inddei. One day Zietheu the venerable, white-haired gou- oral, asked to bo oxcoaed from military duty tbit he might attend tbo holy sacrament. He wu exensed. A few days after Ziethen was dining with the king and with many notables of Prussia, Frederick the Great, In a Jocose way, said: "Well, Ziethen, how did the sacrament of last Friday digest?” Tho venerable old warrior arose and said: “For yonr majesty I have risked my life many a time on the battlo-dold, and for your majesty I would be willing any time to db; but you do wrong when you Insult Ibe Christian religion. Yon will forgivo me If I, your old military «*r- vank cannot boar in silence any Insult to my Lard and my Saviour.” Frederick tbo Great leaped to hla feet, and be pnt out hb hand, and he told: “Happy Ziethen! forgivo mo, foralvo mol Yon will never b* bothered •Hub.” Ob. there aro many being scoffod at for their religion, and I thank God there are many men as brave aa Ziethen. Go to he even yourael O, employer t Taka all your people with you Boon yon will be through buying andMllfng and through with manufacturing and bnlld. inf, and Gad will aak you: "Where aro all thoaa people over whom you had so great In* fluenct? Aro they bare? Will they bo here?” O, shipowners! into wbatfharbor will your craw mil? After being tossed on ao many aois will they gain tho port of heaven? O, banker*! will tboao young men who aro running up and down the long liuoa or figuree, and handling the chrcka and draft*, and handling the rollaof government sccuritlca—sre they keeping their accounta right with God?—the credit ac count ofmcrciea received and the debt ac count of etna forgiven. O.yon drygooda mer chant*! are thorn young men under your care who are providing fabric* of apparel for head and band, and foot and back, to go unclothed— unclothed into eternity? O, you merchant grocer*! are tbcie young men that under your care are providing food for the bodice and families of men, to go starved forever? O, you manufacturers or this United States with *o many wheels a flying, and ao many bauds a pulling, and so many new patterns turned out, and ao many goods shipped—are tbo spinners, are the carmen, are the draymen, are the ssltsmen, are the watchers of your es tablishments working out everything but their own ealvatiou? Can it be that, having thorn people under yonr care, five, ten, twenty yean, you have made no everlasting imprest ion for geed on their immortal sooU? God turn at all back from such cel fish ness and teach us to live for others and not for ourselves. Christ seta us an example of sacrifice, and so do many of his disciple*. One summer. In California, a gentleman who bad Just removed from the Sandwich islands, told me this incident. He said one of the Sandwich islands is devoted to lepers. People getting tack of the lafwnwy on the otbertaJand* are sent to Uet ieU of lepers. They never come off. They are In different stages of disease, but all who die on that island die of leprosy. On one of the healthy islands there was a physician who always wore his hand gloved, and it was often discussed why he always had a glove on that Hand undor all cir cumstances. One day this physician came to the city au thorities, and he withdrew his glove, and he said to the officers of the law: “You see on that hand a spot of the leprosy and that I am doomed to die. I might hide thia for a little while and keep away from the isle of lepers; but I am a physician, and I can go on that island and administer to the sufferings of tboao who are farther gone in the disease, and I should like to go now. It would be selfish In me to stay amid these luxurious sourroundings when I might be of so much help to tho wretched. Send me to the isle of tho lepers." They, seeing the spot of leprosy, of course took the man into custody, lie bade farewell to hia family and his friends. It was an agonising farewell. He could never see them again. He was taken to the isle of the lepers and thoro wrought among the sick until prostrated by his own death, which at laat camo. Oh, that was magnificent self denial, magnificent sacrifices, only surpassed by that of Him who exiled Himself from the hearth of heaven to this leprous island of • world, that He might riclan onr wounds and weep our griefs and our deaths, turning the',isle of a leprous world into a great blooming paradisical garden. Whether employer or employe, letuscateh that spirit. SAM JONB8 AND SAM SMALL. How the Two Revivalist* Pass the Days— Jones Hlta at Ilia Cnemles. Baltimore, May 19.-8am Jones and Sam Small have been to work'here for somo dsya now. Jones finds minister* In nearly every town ho viaita who do not approvo of his methods. Yester day he hit out at a man who had been denouncing him. The sword thrusts were not numerous, but they were keen. Tho occasion was found at the conclusion of the sermon of Rev. Sam Bmaall, at Rev. Dr. Hurpland's church. Mr. Jones stopped forward to the desk In hla quiet, characteristic way. He picked up Mr. Small’s little moroeo bound Bible, and holding it up to the big cougrogation said: If this little bnnch of paper I hold In my hand la God's truth, then It outweighs all the univers of tuns and stars. If thla book la true, am I crazy? Am I fanatic? I tell you, If it la true, I want to bo so crazy that I will walk all over tho city on my knee* to save jxior, perishing ainnors? WhstS , if this book i* true, there aro JW.OOO crazy jtlana In Baltimore. They’ro so crazy that they wont pray, they won't work, but If they don't look out therll walk with their arms folded right down Into the Jaws of boll. People aay Small and I exaggerate. Kxagerate! Why, you can’t oxsg- erate what *in la doing. I'd just aa soon try to ex- agerato the beauties or heaven! What la It you don't like about mo and Small? What Is It? I'm siandingright on the Ten Commandments and the 8eimon on the Monnt. Ain't yon? If you aro, ain’t we standing hand In hand? Oughtn't wo to aland shoulder to shoulder? But aro you standing there? That's the question? . “Who's this preacher that’s denouncing me in this city?'' I asked a friend yesterday. “Why, don't you know?" replied my friend, lie's »e man that the liquor people got to deliver a lecture and paid him for it. (omlles.) in glad I know why ho oppoaeame. continued tones. It’s always tho hit dog that hollers, hter.) I never was In Baltimore before and t know anybody her*. I didn't Mk anybody to let mo come, but I'm hero because your pastor, Rev. Dr. Murkland, and other leading ministers and laymen Invited mo. No. when you hear peo ple on the corner discussing the rink and tho re vival and the revivalists, some fellow will come up and ask: "Been around?" You may say: "No; I don’t endorse these men." I don’t want you to endorse me. (Laughter.) Your endorsement, oven if It was written out, wouldn't bo auy good. (Laughter.) 1 don't want any man to endorse mo. 1 wouldn’t even endorse tnyaelf. But I do waut God to endorse me, and I want all of you to co operate with me. There's no man wants to go to heaven worse than I do. If I don't go to heaven, my friends, I tell you I will turn around and walk away from the golden gate the most disappointed man in tho universe. Rev. Bam Jones is as plain and unassuming as a notable man can be. Ho goes on the principle that the great can as well afford to bo unaanuntng aa can the rich to be plain, and he baa brought this ilmple creed to the perfection of practice, no and Mr. Small, Mr. Maxwell, the ehorlster, and Mr. Taylor, the stenographer, occupy a suit of rooms at the Bt. James hotel. Mr. Jones ilseps alone, and has a Urgo, pleasant room ou the second floor looking out on Centre afreet. When things get crowded he "doubles up" with Mr. Bmall, and then Mawell and Taylor double up. at 7 o’clock and goes Into Mr. Small’s room, or the latter goes Into nu room, aa the case may be. and they havo prayers. Then they repair to breakfast. A favorito dish with both Is oatmoal and cream. They must have fruit at all their meals. They were raised on fruit and they have not yet learned how to get along without It. Broiled steak la a pret ty steady order from Mr. Jones. For a drink he likes lemonade-and coffee. Now. that he has S ven up tobacco, he concentrates hu affectlous on cse two beverages. Alter breakfast Mr. Jonoa reads his letters. Theso accumulate at tho rato of liny a day. They aro of all aorta. They coma from Infidels, drunkards, blacklegs, tramp#, ministers, church members, from pcoplo who have been moved by his ser mons, and from people who appear to Uko keen delight In elaborately explaining mat they have not been moved by hla sermons; and laat, but not least by a good bit, from hia friends and from bis wlfo. Ho write* to Mrs. Jones every day, Sunday Included, and the knows where he Is every min ute ofhU tlmejust as positively although she were with him. It U Mr. Jones’ custom, when remain ing In a place for several weeks, to have hU wife to come to him and speud a row da; She la tall, handsome, * every one or them, from their shoes up, and they show It lu their photographs, which Mr. Jortee always carries around with him. But to return to the letter*. Some of them are in ji inthuziastlc, encouraging vein from Uhristians; others are Bill of Inquiry and pleading from seek- era after religion: others scoff and sneer and abuse, and sometimes there are letters that breathe forth . Jdyonelnv] day afternoon, SHMIVkinnCuul going through Ids tatc* to hi* stcnogral mi, miuwumcauu mix. mss, JOfUS only one Invitation t6 dine, and that when he took dinner xa*. After reading and IUCIIW, HI. JUIKX UIL— such replies as are lm* ji own writing every time. Mr. Jonee does not mind abuse. When be strikes that kind of a letter he toaaes It aside with the re mark: "Another yelpin' cur a fbllowln' tu.” . The letters having been brushed aside, the two evangelists devote an hour or so to receiving call era, They are as various in character and purpose aa the letters, and often aa numerous. They as* ministers, members of the basing the revival * s of the executive committee In charge, seekers, drunkards o are influenced by the merest • who really deserve charity sion of the levee. Mr. Jonea and Mr. Small aome- time* take a stroll previous to the noou meeting at the Young Men’s Christlon association bnlldfiif. They go anywhere and everywhere, but they can not paaaa soda water fountain to save their liven. Soda water la their great delight. If Mr. Small moves post the shining fountain without exhibit ing any (disposition to stop, Mr. Jonea wUl tug at his arm and aay: “Hold up, Ham! Gome In and have a drink." Tlien they disappear together in the drugstore and emerge In a few moment* look ing happy and contented, and smacking tbetr lips lu a cheerful way. It 1a a rare thing when they return from any of their strolls without having five cents’ worth or the foaming, alsslng temperance beverage concealed somewhere about their anat omy. 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