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10 THE CHRISTIAN NATION. Vol. til. Around the Old Arm and them give for thee, dear ginning to grow dark, and I quickened my steps, reaching my of have them. O, they do so need Jesus. Those over there never fice door to find him coming on after me. I entered by the side door and had just turned on the light when the bell rang. Answering it 1 found the man there. him Under the electric light I had plainly before me, a large, The pronunciation was closely, "Weli^" I said. "May I speak with doctor" he asked. "Ye-es," I consented, "but leave that implement outside." "Sure!" he replied, and dropped both pick and hat before entering. Chair. This was not to my liking, to be followed by a vicious-looking Italian, at dusk, and to have his name "I love It, 1 love It, You remember No I was here. And who shall dare I wanted to—" To chide me for loving balance on my ear is "perfidy!" I "0, yes!" I remembered. The Old Arm Chair." gave him a chair, and took one Reveni. He is going home with "Doctor," he said, "if you please •PERFIDY." for myself where I could touch Bibles, but, he would not go to I will thank you. I felt thatJ By W. H. Morse, M.D. the police call. the islands to the coatti!" did so want to go to the islands The city clocks were striking This was getting interesting. where—you, you know—I was. "I am a Christian!" he began. T five and the factory whistles were "Why, man," I said, "you say that But, no! I did not seem fit. 1, a don't know! I get my mind!" the men in the convict settlements man who had served. But 1 pitied. blowing when, on my way to my "Ah," I thought, "mentally deranged!tian. Take it to them." Doctor, I went! .y.Dove price of need the Bible; you are a Chris I asked you. You encouraged me. office one November afternoon, I passed the trench where a gang of "Unless," he went on, "unless I "I I" he asked; then shook my tickets I had nine dollars, and Italians were excavating for a do I shall sure be damned! Yes" his head. "O, I couldn't, couldn't I got me Testaments and Psalms. sewer. At the instant of the time "Describe your symptoms," I any way! Think of it! I killed my At Palmero I was stopped. The signal every man stopped work. said. woman! 1 am not fit. No, not me." caribineers said I could not go. 1 "None symptoms, doctor!" he A long sigh of despair. I at Ordinarily they pay little or no gave a caribineer one Testament. answered. "Not that! Say, doctor! once began to reason with him, He read it. Then he said I could attention to passers on the sidewalk, and it was therefore with Doctor, he went to Italy. He a could. His dark face brightened ti he took. I went to Lipari where You know Joe Fancilini Yes and to encourage him all that I go with the next co.-npany of coat some surprise that I noticed that Christian. You know he did the I once was. Ah, how glad they one of the men looked up sharply pile of good. Yes" were to see old Fedi! I just tell and at me and touched fils hat. He acted as if he was in haste to quit I recalled Fancilini, an Italian Protestant who, the previous year, tell about dear Jesus, and give some Testaments. O, they so hungry! My! They want them all. had gone home to Italy with a supply of Scriptures in Italian and No! I wanted some for Ustica. So work, and after I had walked on a few steps something impelled me with them had done splendid colportage. I cut up in portions some several to look back, and I saw that he for them. I come away, back to was following, with his pick in his "O, I want to do same, too!" the Palermo. I wanted so bad to get hand. I turner at the next corner, man went on, "But, doctor, please to Ustica, but that caribineer said when glancing back, I saw that tell me I cannot! I would be O, he wanted me to go to Favignana, so glad to carry Testaments home, he was not far behind. It was be where he had his brother con them, doctor!" "You are a Protestant" I asked. "Sure." "You contemplate returning to Italy, and desire to do the same as he did" "If—" and the man began to sob and cry. He calmed himself stalwart man, very dark, anything but clean, and apt to answer to with difficulty, and then continued, "How can I Doctor, I have 'Charles Reade's definition of sinister. In one hand he held his hat, served." "Served" and in the other his pick. "Yes, doctor, at both Lipari and "The doctor " he asked. When Ustica.'' I had replied in the affirmative, he "Served, how" said, "1 am Pierre Fedi. Service! ' "Why, doctor, I was one of the coatti!" "And what are they" "perfidy," and my imagination did He pronounced the word with not have to take rein to realize a shudder: "Convicts." that he looked it. He did certainly have a villainous appearance. in full "You" My suspicions returned force. "Yes, doctor. I killed my woman. Before that I did all crimes. She was bad, and I stab her. Manslaughter, ten years. I served." "Well" "The coatti need the dear Bible. 0, how I wish I was so I could carry it to them, and tell them of our dear Jesus! But no! Francilini, he was good. I was bad. Never do! No, no! And they need it so, doctor! O, I wish! But you see, I am not. There is Filippo for an instant, and then, suddenly, with a low "Good night!" he went out. I bolted the door. Some days after this, I was passing the sewer trench, and thought of him. The foreman stood by, and I asked him if Fedrwas among the men. "No," he replied, "Fedi left Saturday noon, when the men were paid. He didn't return this week. Another man in his place. Sorry. Good workman. Probably gone on some other job." It was five months later, when one Tuesday morning in late April there came among my patients a well-dressea, clean-shaved man, who waited for his turn till others had been attended. As he came into the consultation room, a peculiar feeling came over me. He was a stranger, but in a sort of instinctive way, I felt as if in the presence of a dangerous man. 1 have often thought of it many times since, and cannot account for it. I could not even when he spoke. "Doctor," he said, "I am not ill. I am quite well. You do not recall me. At service, Pierre Fedi. fined. So I go to Favignan. Same good time. Those poor men so glad to hear the clear Testament. They took all I had. They did. You see I not get to Ustica. But, doctor, I work like last year on public sewer, and next fall I go once more!" I have seen many returned missionaries, but never one more happy than that man. I have talked with him at different times this past summer, and he is to spend the winter in Sicily, with the convict island of Ustica as his field. Hartford, Conn. THEWARapthe P R O P H E T DANIEL To understand present day events the study of the Book of Daniel is indispensable. Have you as a teacher and Christian ever studied carefully this great book The book you need to give vou a complete grasp of Daniel's great Prophecies is The Prophet Daniel: ^. c qI^bele.n A KEY TO HIS VISIONS AND PROPHECIES Editor of "Our Hope" Over io,ooo of this work now in circulation. Endorsed by leading Bible teachers of the English-speaking world. Dr. C. I. Scofield, Editor of th» Reference Bible, writes. '•I have to thank you, not only for myself, but for the whole church of these last days, for vour book on Daniel. It evinces the qualities of clearness, so that any child of God may understand now that great book; scripturalness, m substituting for the wild guessing of so many commentatm-s the sure word of God; and a reverent and spiritual application of these wonderful things to the soul, for present blessing." Nicely bound in cloth. Over 200 pages. Price 30 cents po.
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