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as he said-F' My young friend, these are the
kindest words have heard for many day,
and all you say is new and strange. | will be
here tonight and 90 with you TO the tempe
rance meeting" That night you might have
seen this same youth pursuing his way through
a dense mass of human beings, standing thick
in the middle aisle of Wesley Chapel. The
exercises were already begun, and one of our
most popular speakers was uron the platform.
Close behind the youth, the heavy made man
was elbowing himself along wherever the lad,
like wedge, opened the way.


"Don't crowd so much here,'' whispered
one on one side; " a little less of your impu-
dence, you greasy loafer." as the heavy man
jostled him on the other side.


Almost any one would have been discourag-
ed, but our hero kept on, amid rebukes, with
his protege close behind him, until by dint of
hard labor he made his way nearly up to the
Secretary's table.


"There is no one here,'' said the speaker
on the stand, &c so lost that he may not be re-
covered-that has fallen so low that he may not
be raised up; for it is one of the glorious cha
racteristics of this REFORM that it stoops to the
lowest, and pursues after him who has wander
ed longest. 1t takes the drunkard from the
curbstone and the gutter, and restores him to
a standing among men-such as the most re-
spectacle occupy. Who has not heart TO
give to this glorious cause-aye, and a hand
too? Who would not labor when every blow
he strikes brings a diamond from the miner
If there is a poor, lost wanderer here, who
once had friends, but has them no more
friends who turn from him with loathing-if
there be man here who once moved in the
higher walks of life but who has fallen from
the rank that he occupied, come up now and
sign the pledge, and you shall again have
friends, rank, and station. Here thousands of
bounding hearts will greet you as BROTHER
Come up now now, and sign the pledge. The
speaker paused, and almost instantly, while
the house resounded with loud applause, our