is magnetic. He seemed to delight in calling the new church the Tabernacle, and said it would be the coolest summer resort in Wheeling, and a delightful place to spend an hour. He said the only ticket needed for admission was an unsaved man, and he desired all Christians to bring such. He said:

"I stand before you a redeemed drunkard; I never drank a drop of liquor until I was eighteen. I told my mother I wouldn't and I had the sweetest, dearest mother that ever lived. We had a home out in Ohio, such a sweet home, I love yet to think of it, and I can yet see mother's dear chin tremble with anxiety for her children -- and me she seemed to love best of all. One time I took a drink from a persistent intoxicated fellow. Two weeks later I could drink a half-pint of whisky down at one drink. Shortly after this mother died, but she never knew of my sin. I went to study medicine, then I went to traveling -- but I was a drunkard, my home was broken up, my position was gone, and hope was lost. One night I was sitting in a gin-mill in Harlem and had been drunk for five weeks, night and day. As I was sitting there, a great presence came into the room. I was seated on a whisky-barrel, but all at once it came, and I knew the presence was Jesus. Boys, if you ever see Jesus, you'll know Him. My sins stood out in gilt letters against my conscience. Then I stepped to the bar, and said I never again would take liquor. I finally went to Jerry McAuley's Mission and knelt down and said: 'God have mercy on me, a sinner.' Never from that second have I known what it is to have the taste for liquor. I then commenced to preach the everlasting gospel, and never from that day to this have I missed a day in telling some poor soul of Jesus."

Mr. Hadley here called his co-worker, Jerry Griffin, to address the audience. Mr. Griffin said that eight years ago he was a vagabond, and the reason he told the world so was because he thought it would do his God some good. He thought there was a vast field here in Wheeling, among its great factories. He prayed earnestly for the outcast, lonely, helpless, and broken-hearted. The meeting was interesting throughout, and the faces were seen in the audience which had not been observed in a church in years.

With this article is shown a cut of the front elevation of the new Tabernacle. It was designed according to the plans of Mr. Hearne, and is 53 feet wide and 90 feet long, containing two large

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