SUNDAY READING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10902, 5 November 1898, Page 4 (Supplement)

SUNDAY READING.

A CLEVER LITTLE RASCAL.

A REMINISCENCE BY DR. BARNARDO. I had had a bad half-hour, although it was on a lovely but broiling hot Sunday in July. Surrounded by a little band of earnest colleagues, I had been holding open-air service,?, as was my manner on Sundays, at tho corners of many of the moan streets and dingy lanes of Limehouso Fields. But the opposition was out in force! A hooting, yelling mob was round lis and it was with difficulty we reserved our cohesion and avoided absolute conflict. When we were struck we nevei struck back Tho missiles aimed at us moro often missed their aim than not; but whether they hit or missed they were just as disastrous in diverting attention.

On this Sunday things had gone particularly badly. For at tho corner of Eastfieldstreet, where we made our first stop and had begun our opening hymn, cold water was very literally thrown upon tho proceedings by an elderly lady, as she would call herself, who dexterously emptied a large can upon us from the window of a tenement against which we had sought shelter. Tho hilarious crowd hailed tho incident with shrieks of laughter. It was in their eyes a,good practical joke, which made these religious people look supromoly ridiculous! I have no doubt we were miserable objects. Wo moved on, and shook our* selves liko water-dogs, while in neighbourly fashion we rubbed each other down with poclvot handkerchiefs. This, howover, could never restore tho Inst shine to the Sunday hat or the ruined brightness to the ribbons (It the girls from our Sunday-school, who had bravely kept us company to help us sing the l.jmns. But we were young and ardent, and we sang aloud '

Let of e the e \%r?d! Ud the ° ffS Md the fr ° wns For we all have a cross to bear.

And wo meant it all, right down in our hearts, and We felt wo WBro at that very moment carrying a very heavy cross. At this 0,-te tl cl °™ !i 8 rascal in the crowd himself tho time lmd arrived 10 distinguish oifthi ,A. g °° deal of the water had fallen oil the dusty pavement and gutter. This he industriously scooped up with his hands> 3'" ,ik • as 11,1,011 ° the 6um mer dust gathered wl .. e PSs. ils .could be conveniently fn «ln?„ i W °' m prance of what was in store for us, sang our ditty. vfreXh^ri mth l CloS ° d , 6708 and head s ret^isassrsfsiia snsrasa r>aa tt

ABOUT A dozen soft pellets EaMiirrjsastt curl a?m n t ProCe^ leil, ,r th «'ondeA a<> our own fnr ? See eac '' other's danger or sStSfSS my mouth in prayer "when 1 iust ,,°P ene d rt was neatly and tiehtiv '„i boholdl cibly distended with hi ml P , 60 Jor " been skilfully thrown St - had shut my mouth nor eject tl, could "either course I inatantlv 1. ho "mile! Of everyone around mo my eycs, and found iKy 2 ™ Snrn a i f K glass of water® but -, & °° IGono , fetched me a lil«e ineffectuLl a my. mouth quite clear of Si A eD ? ** articulate distinctly again Mvfw CoUld Whore is Charlie Jkkson'" tn , r We ?- cool rejoinder was ''n®i to wlll the But nobody could tell ml i" 3 ne home." son lived. One ht Ml wl, .® re Charlie JackI'im round to nil °» ? d 1 ,vill bring ''ope that he would not ri, l .°° uld or >ly confess that if I had had 8 '? milld I that moment in a nuint „ lar 'i° Jackaon at have given hU a bifofmv "•/ £* 1 could or might not ham H»n mind, whioh might ardent aC °° mpilni<!d by more hc A S did fehe'Sers f °Wel th , , hurried on : for evory face of tlmiJ, l u ld no ' l go Ponied me bore Tom j£ 3 1 ?. W a <*o»Oh bombardment. ChMho Jack " jng. ' How feed 'wan 01 l° f **T that e ™- ! ly ™ asked each TO "3 bo * ; n holding these op air mtrV ny use had not time for din™J.» meot >nfts? But I 1 had to meet my great In an ,10ur S f them cosLSnge oUghads - World's End, Stennev 77,\ Hope Pla CB, Nothing special occurred durfn Ti my class ' mgs except that my heirt w! proceedcomforted by the onthS warmed and of my hearers. Some® th 1 a ? d «ness ™ > 4 »a ir e * b » i '-« ? ut . I wouldn't 'a -l a -. qUsSlion he blurS it wm von.' « » lfc ' 8lr > if I'd aWd asked. " Well, sir if have you done?" I to it? you ' a $ hurt'' 8 a fine lark tut tlil f» perlla l )s this was tJ Wned upon the afternoon's discomfit, y ° l ? 1K hero of faid, sternly, "arl What!" 1 ir! " a "d he stltedtk 18 Ja ° kßon? " Thig W J tl"/® ® 0W « w' i9 me! " ■ acquaintance. It wa» ng ° f . a ® ore intimate months, until at loneth T c ? n l ln «ed for many epite Um oT'iT ° £ Cl 'Mlie , s g< life Th? aU tba However"^ 6 ,]] and >"SSf,*^ ®y. old assailant finally be°i d m . this . that : y MC! ®9 an in mate of

th* Home, then in its causeway. Time fails m 6 S' al Bb*. Tory there, which, though evS, l« incident was full of fruitful^™ 1 SMS to eay that .Charlie, when ab^ 6 C of age, became a very true-W. jt follower of Christ. He becarf- • eiS of a consuming zeal for.to£*« others. His enthusiasm J?i * BT ?% nous; it could not be resisted »» leading evangelist among hisf OWs I had at one time in the R: Itk fifty boys, every one of whfimV «4\ say, was a truly converted h,l ' ITe%Bl Te %B power of the regenerating Snirit whom had been brought to ' , ' ,ad >D> Christ through the influence offTH t son s lifo and work among thsmi ,19 Jltl 1 ultimately placed Charlie boy. He did his work faithfully £»* > longed more and more for { v Mbo Eventually he was taken up hv U<l supported two City missionaries 1 7 * End. Charlie was coneeniillv ■ En last. His work lay about the Dnt pl ° W i task was to lay hold of sailor.yf's ad hi young fellows who were seeing oli >' bring them to a coffee-hquso th-H o t I there where Christian influences L? * pathetic home life was offered w 1 fa necessitous and tempted. Hera rS 7 ®0i across a most intelligent German aSi** .nan who had been a mission^ "S i fellows for years-a Moravian T exhibited a splendid spirit of de,„iL°H two became bosom friends Th ■ 5* upon Charlie of his new 'friend® 111 ™ marked. Ho grew daily n the Hi Ido not think I have ever bee n , U interesting, intelligent, disrernin* - about the truths of Holy Scrinfi.« i quesl as by Charlie. When we met Eft"** some fresh Scriptural problem or in]? always had some keen, intelligent give for what had led up to the inn,^ 01111 verily "hungered and thirsted" f ledge of the truth. It was his cons& to go abroad as a missionary. , de^ How to accomplish this end IW. ' M at that time there was much less f V o M°i at present for placing out comnaS'i t4li educated men in the mission fid? V s ' through the splendid work of Dr p °*i Guinness men from even the humblest of life who have zeal and devotion SdS 1 an admirable and efficient trainer, n r® sympathetically helped to enter tk en 1 " Christian missions, if found worthy 111 last I racceedcd in getting Charlie a ,!& as personal servant to a Christ „s: " 01 took him to .India. That o^^ ordinary regimental duty, an livid ? ** wholly m the Madras Presidency, being himself a very fincere and W"SA man lost no opportunity of bringingW pel before all whom he met, whetWtWZ natives or English peoplo of his own d?

Under such a master and siirli J"'.'-'' Charlie Jackson's usefulness increaJ 1 ' 11 ®' and more. His life really wag that d ."5 AN APOSTOLIC MISSION® to the humbler class, such misinn. • ■ there are now many of, but who'vSu few and far between. I have soSf!? young fellow's letters by me to this d» S no one who reads them could doukU'.r the Spirit of fa Maater Hitfe through their pages. lam sorry to e.w\ ever, that poor Charlie Jackson's St was cut short after pbout five yean' 3 in India through typhoid surprised to find that his employer rZI for him as a brother in Christ and S labourer. Never, said he, had heltVt consistent, upright, unswerving ChrirtL i" fact, he regarded him as almost a rtS character, from the point of ™„ it wholly given up to his Lord's service. i That pellet of mud had an aim and effected a result which neither my assailant nor 3 contemplated on that Sunday afternoon of !! humiliation and disappointment! How J of my boys and girls, from that eventfd Z to this, have become missionaries, tie com pamons of missionaries. or without any S official position have become devoted. 18 to 26, Stepney-causeway, London E.%

RESURRECTION. ' (1 Thess, iv. 13-18.) ' IT* ' FeoMj ttw throne of the Father, uprisings He shall come! To gather his saints in the glory andlieht'v ' He shall come! V voice 6 tmmpet of God and the archangel'! To waken his loved ones and bid them rejoice He snail come! k - Fro ™ a d e eep aTOnIS and waves ° 016 fathom- ' They shall rise! ' ' • : From the paves of the earth, where th® • peacefully sleep. They shall rise! : (And the living be changed with a eloriod < surprise, •: 'tho U 6k^ 6rleSS numl)ers AW m(mnt through They shall rise! . 'i And for ever with God and with Christ shall :1 : they live. They shall live! ' j In unspeakable glory, which God shall then give, They shall live! ' c'. ; 'i And increasingly more of his love shall they 1 . know, • . ; As the ages pass on in their rapturous flo*, - They shall live! •?>& •: Take comfort, bereaved ones, for sure Is the word, ,• , .-(• "X will come!" And the Faithful and True One, yoar glorified Lord, • • He will come! " \ .J > And not one shall be lost, who hw clung to Bis name, , t . In this day of rejection, and suffering and shame, He will come! jj aifeed KNOTT, ,