CHAELEY McMURDO AND CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 235, 14 March 1885, Page 3

CHAELEY McMURDO AND CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE.

I am glad to learn from a "Warkworth correspondent that ray old friend, the veteran Charley McMurdo, is still strong in the faith. He continues to hold forth nightly on the blessings of sanctification by prayer, and spiritual development, and if Charley has not yet quite reached the angelic he seems to be in a fair way to do so. But there are people in Warkworth who do not seem to be capable of duly appreciating his regeneration. The place, as my readers are aware, is periodically perturbed by little social eruptions, especially in school management. One of these was revived the other day. As Charley and some of his friends emerged from a school meeting the other night they were received with a chorus of hooting, and a volley of tin-kettling by a number of larrikins, the veteran himself being the most prominent object of the ovation. True to his old military instincts the ex-warrior executed a skilful stragetic movement to the rear, taking cover in some dense ti-tree, from which he was afterwards rescued by a reinforcement. But under all this persecution the hero of Sebastapol maintains an air of Christian resignation., as if the buffetings of Satan and the crown of thorns were mere trials of faith.