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Instructions to change or discontinue an advertisement must be left at the uonnting room Wring Posr not later than Tuesday of each week. This is imperative. Inca-37st, Editor and Proprietor. Into and out of Infidelity. (nY ELIJAH P. CROWN.) I had only one aequaiuterme in Chi. °ago whom I knew to be a Christian. I went to see him, and told him what had happened ; but his time was not lois 0w11, and he could spare only a few minutes to give me counsel. I went out into the cold air and walked the streets. It was a bitter cold day, but I was burning up. I never did each walking as I did that morning. The ordinary Chicago rush surrounded nos, but the people went too slow and I passed some one at every step. Though in the midst of multitudes,, I was alone. Jostled on every hand by the hnrrying thousands, I was in solitude. 2 was not going anywhere ; I had no ob- jeotive point and yet every muscle was strained to its highest tension. I was having the same experience Cain expres- ses in Genesis 4 • 13, 14—banishment from the presence of God. There have been times of anxious wait. ing with me, when momenta seemed hours, but that day was the longest day of my life. Time seemed to have stop- ped and eternity to have begun. Twelve o'clock was an awfully remote future period. Oh, how tbe moments did draa I I would look at my watch, and tben, after what seemed to be a very long, long time, I would look again—and the hands bad scarcely moved. I was in a hell that made fire and brimstone but a weak, mocking symbol. I viae as one dying with thirst, yet surrounded with cooling fountains, and without the power to drink, or ae one in the last agonies of starvation, seated et a full table, without strength to lift a crumb. My soul was burning up with hunger far the love of God. At that moment I would have given everything I owned on earth to have some one take me kindly by the hand and tell me that God loved me. My ears were deaf to all else; and yet 1 could nob hear this. Ob, how I did want to hear that blessed as. surance I. The sound of prayer would have been very sweet just then. It never once came into my mind that I could pray for myself. I thought I would have to have a good man pray for me. Some one who could pray as Moody load done. I knew that I needed a mediator. It would not do for me to try to go to God alone. I was determined that the business of my life from that moment should be to seek and serve my Maker. Nothing could now turn me from this purpose. An ir- resistible power seemed to force me for- ward ; and yet I did not know what I was to do, or how I was to proceed. Sometimes I would recall a long -forgot- ten portion of scripture that I had learn- ed in boyhood—for I had never learned any afterward—and it would at once be• come Luminous With meaning. The very voice of God Himself would speak to me from it, as He did to Moses from the burning bosh. Another wonderful change came over me that forenoon. Before that time my heart had been like a frozen fountain. I amid not weep. This great solace in affliction had been denied me. When sorrow had come with heavy hand, as it had often done, taking friend after friend—I could only groan in spirit, and suffer the bitterest agony because I could not pour out my grief in tears. But this morning the fountains of the great deep of feeling were broken up. Tears Dame unbidden, and moved me to the greatest tonderneee. A spirit of great benevolence also suddenly possessed me. The streets were full of sights that moved me to Dom. passion, and tore my very heart strings. A. blind newsboy, a maimed beggar, a hobbling cripple or a stumbling horse whipped for his fault—such things had been seen a thousand times, but never moved me so before. Why should I be so eager to press money into a hand that yesterday I wonld have roughly struok aside ? I could not tell, Mr. Moody had announced that on Saturday night he would not preach, but that he was going to organize a male choir of two hundred and fifty voices. Had Iinoown that the ohuroh would fall down that night and kill me, I could not have kept away from it. After forming the choir, and having it drilled awhile, Mr. Moody said, as if speaking directly to ma : "It may bo that God has sent some one here tonight to inquire the way of salvation. If so, I would be glad to meet ail such in the lecture room." What a glad message that seemed to m0 1 I al- most ran t0 get there this time. There were a Bamber of others, and we quickly grouped oureolve: en ohaire about Mt. Moody, and eagerly began risking him queetione. As soon as he learned that I was an infidel, and my oondition of mind et that moment, be gave one dome special attention, talking with me ten or fifteen minutiae He told me the mistake I load made wag in trying to find God with my head. He vies never 20nnd in that way. I6 was absurd for me to try to oompre. bend the Infinite, and rebel spinet the lows booauoe I could not understand them. Ida urged me to venture upon the prom• keg of God, with the assurance tbat He would meet me. At that moment Mee. Moody came in and he introtluoed me to her. She presented many things eoncern. ing the seems] 60 me in a new light, and THE BRUSSELS POST _,,.,.ia, APR 6, 1894 the way began to grow brighter before me. I shall always thank God .for send- ing this devout Christian woman to help me, ' The waters of truth were moving in the panda of error on whidgo I had been building ; but I seemed determined to hold out and defend my pposition as long RS I could find a foot.ltold. This rather perplexed me. Suoh a great oheuge load Dome over me that I loved everybody, and yet I somehow appeared to be iteham- ed of it ed to oo , t The eweand wanted aoa nlGloa fact. music I had ever heard was the Chrietiau aonversation of that night, yet I stubbornly refused to make any publiq profession, or consent to be prayed with. Difficulties oonoerning Christ, and what it meant to receive and accept Him, greatly perplexed me. Again T went home, and this time with somethina of a sense of relief front the burden whioh had oppressed me. The next day (Sabbath) was Mr, Moody's lash in Chicago. He preached twice. I prevailed upon my wife to go with me to the morning service, with a strong bopo that her heart would oleo be touched, though I carefully concealed from her the nature and extoub of my in- terest. I continued during that day and the next to get nearer to the Lord. I loved everybody, and had nothing but good will in my heart for the whole world, but it w0.0 not until the next day that Ohriet was so revealed to me that .2 oould throw wide open the door of my heart and receive Him as my Lord and Saviour. At that moment the burden rolled away ; the peao0 which passetll understanding came quietly into my soul, end from that moment to the present there hoe never beau an hour when I have not known that I was saved. It was a long time after my conversion before I could receive the historical per. lions of the Old Testament as being the history of real happenings. I saw the spiritual meanings, and that satisfied me. I did not care to go beyond time. I knew that if I were to write a story to teach a lesson, it wouldn't matter whether my charaoters and incidents were real or imaginary, and I said that the same would be true oonoerning the lessons of the 01d Testament scriptures. I also had the same difficulties concerning the hie - toric Christ. It was months after my conversion before I could intellectually believe in Him, or persuade myself that He had lived. Bub the Holy Spirit was very patient with me, and like the flocks of Jacob I wag not forced to travel any too fast for my safety. I was led to the point where my reason was convinced that God could never have reached the comprehension end heart of sinful moo without robing Himself in mortal flesh exactly ancording to tbe gospel narrative, and today I know that the historic Christ was a reality because His life was a necessity. (TO BE CONTINDED.) TIIOIIAS ACQUITTED. THE ALLEGED BOY MURDERER SET AT LIBERTY. Long before 9:30 a. re. Wednesday at whioh hour court opened, an expectant audience thronged the court room. The first case called was that of Alfred Thomas, the English lad from the Boys' Horne, who has been confined in goal at Stratford since last September, charged with the murder of the old woman, Elizabeth Marton, of Gowanstown. The crime, as outlined by the orown prosecu- tor, Mr. Idington' Q. C.,.i+that Thomas, on the lath day of -last September, shot and killed Mre. Martin in her own house and afterwards burned the building to conceal his foul act. The prisoner, it is charged, then fled from the scene and was found two days after, some miles away, with a farmer with whom he had hired. The boy was then suffering from 0, gun shot wound in his arm, received, it is said aooidently. When the prisoner was plaited in the box it was hard to realize float such a young, pleasant•looking, obubbyfaoed little fellow could possess any of the in. stinats of a murderer. Instead of being chief actor in a murder trial the lad seemed to be of an age, condition and appearanoe which would rather oonsign him to the school and the playground. John Idinston, Q. C., appeared for the Crown and Wrn. Lount, Q. 0., of Toron- to and G. G. McPherson for the prisoner. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Samuel Martin, eon of the deceased woman, was the first witness called. He detailed the circumstances of his relations with the boy Thomas. Witness left home on Sunday night about 10 o'clock for Elmira, leaving his mother and the prisoner in the house. When be returned Monday afternoon he found his borne in ashes and his mother a charred oorpee. In the cross examination he admitted tbat the prisoner was a cheerful and, willing worker on the farm. The evi• dance ae adduoed went to show that Thomas had never been allowed to handle witnes' gun or know it was kept loaded, witness denied having ill-treated the prisoner while in his employ. When the prisoner was asked to step out of the box by his counsel to show the court how tall he was, witness said the boy had a better appearanoe and had gown consul. arable since working for him. William Crooks and Henry Franke, neighbors of the Martine, testified that they were present when the (louse was burning and doeoribcd the appearanoe and location of what wan afterwards found to be the remains of a human being—supposed to be Mrs. l4Iartin. Constable Bulmer, of Lletawel,deeorib. ed when and how he had arrested the prisoner. When the crown counsel asked a goes tion relative to an alleged confes- sion made by the prisoner to witness, Mr. Lount interposed, He wished first to ask the witness a question, which His Lordship allowed. The question was, "Did you, as you no doubb know it to be your duty as a oonetable, give the pole. onar warning with regard to making any statements wloieh might bo need in eel. denoe %gatest him ?" The witness stated he had given cash warning, but admitted also that be had made the remark to the prfsener, "If you tell me anything let it be the truth," Hie Lordship construed this into an invitation to the prisoner to epeak, and as he had not been properly arrested, not even knowing why he had been arrested, he ruled that tho evidence of Bulmer could not be aeoepted against the pH:toner. The evidence of A. St. George Haw. Itine, of the Listowel Standard, and W. Ohmic, 02 the Listowel Banner, Mobilo wag also submitted to prove 0, oonfeseios of the grime by the prisoner was excluded on the same grenade, Dire. Shalok, formerly of the township of .Grey, now of Tonawanda, N, J,; told clow the prisoner had Dome to the bottle hungry end had dinner. Ile seemed nefveee, P010000r said he was from Mitoholl and an orphan, and was looking for work, Ile had been working for a farmer, and load not got all he could eat, They just gave him 00 muoh and if he asked for more be got slapped, Pira, Sheiok's evidence, in ow far as it mi bt have related toany confession the boy might have made toher, was also exoludecl. She said the boy was haggard and miserable looking when he matte to bar house. He was too changed and look. ed so well in court that she could scarcely recognize him. J. Lynn testified to having witioeased the burning of deceased's house. ZIe found the gun in the ruine and deooribed its location. Dr, Philip, of LIstowel, the o6roner who held the inquest, could not swear tbat the remains on whioh the inquest was held were those of a human being. P. J. Roland, corroborated the testi- mony of Mrs. Simiok about the arrival of the boy at her home. Dr. Fegueon, of Ethel, who was Balled 86 attend the boy's wound, testified that the prisoner had given his name ae Albert Edwards, but admitted Mat as his patient was in a low condition phyeioally, be might, at the time, have been irreeponei. Me for his statements. A. 0. R. Newman, a neighbor's boy, living near the Martin's, was called, but his evidence was unimportant and badly mixed. A abet pouch, an old powder horn and some ganwade, also an old pair of trousers, all of whioh were fouudiu the boy's possession when arrested, were pro- duced on court and identified by P. J. Roland toe articles in possession of the prisoner when he called at Sheiek's. Samuel Martin claimed the shot pouch and powder horn were his property and had been taken from a cheat where he kept some valuables. Mr. Lount argued tloat if the boy bad been disposed to awed he would not have appropriated euoh antiquated and useless artlelee when there was more valuable property near him. This closed the evidence and the /mensal for the defence asked that the ease be dismissed. His Lordship asked the Drown proeecn• tor if he had anything on whioh to rest the coxa. Mr, Idington contended that the cir- cumstances of the boy being left alone with the old lady, hie sudden departure without being discharged, the faote that los was found fifteen miles away from the place next day, and claiming to be from Mitchell, and going under an assumed name, afforded strong eyidenoe against the prisoner. Mr. Idington also referred to the theft of certain articles from the house the prisoner had so strangely left, and that the location of the gun in the ruins pointed with suspicion towards him. TEE 130Y ACQUITTED. His Lorship said that ciroumetantial evidence was admittedly the best evidence. Circumstances could not lie, while man might. A chain of eircumetances so well oonneoted that it might be followed link by link so as to arrive only at an irresis• tible conclusion was the beet evidence that could be produced. The evidence submitted by the Crown in this case was the weakest he had ever heard in an ex- perience of fifty years. His Lordship re• ferred to the conviction, of Maowherrell for the Williams murder in support of remarks oh circumstantial evidence. In referring to the case against the boy he remarked that the very feat that Samuel Martin had left the boy at home in aim• pony with his aged mother showed that the man who knew the prisoner best was ready 'to trust him. The fact that Thomas and the deceased woman had oocaaional "spate" were ie his opinion, only to be expected between a very old woman and a young, playful boy. He attaohed no importance on floe faot. While there might be a suspicion against the prisoner a mato could not lawfully be hanged on suspicion. The boy might have made up his mind to run away that night --after he might hove gone, perhaps a lamp had exploded and the old woman been burned to death, In fact there was no evidence to show that she had been murdered. Bis Lordship concluded by etatipg that with all due respect to the wisdom of the jury he mold not jeopar- dize further the life of the prisoner by al- lowing the case to go before them. The prisoner was then asked to stand, and His Lordship, after giving slim some advice as to the life be ehould lead, and kindly expressing the hope that the ways of the lad might fall in pleasanter planes for the future, pronounced the words that gave him freedom. That the youth looked pleased goes without saying. His first ant on leaving the boxfwas to kiss Mrs. Sbicok, who 'Jas near him all through the trial and whose kindly feminine heart cheered the die• oomfitted and hungry orphan when as a stranger knooked at her door. W. G. 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