A SHINING LIGHT.
y: -'•,- We, were sauntering along the other evening r 'i till the: vicinity of the Grey-street firebell. The ■ martial thunders of a big -drum resounded from ■.;>|he top of a building, while several brass instruil'r.ineiiis were engaged in a painful struggle to ;'.. .'^inaiij themselves heard. Nearer still, a miscella-c-.>■•-!•.ltve^us- assemblage of Salvationists "were chanting, /^^H'-.iyit'ijLi^all^tJiiß' power 'Of their lungs, one of their ; ■/o A ma v rching' hyinns." At intervals faint echoes of ' . pftmo out from the din, like the C V^iiiaireal souncKj oft that. instrument in.the " Dead ':^ssich'^3tif' Saul.". Suddenly we became aware of of -tliree; yonng ladies and a rather Mfcii 3?he ladies were rather, lowjly the -unifprni , •
', i cil?iime;d,; „*' Stppfthat'i^liare sanguinary npmense>, . i an4:Qpm9 a.l6ngpr ( ;njie." .He didn^ say sanguinary, ' .but* /u?es a^,qynpnymbus v ',lierm, Then,, -that, 1 interesting quartette marched .off,, joined the,, Salvationists, , and "were /sooni .amongst. tl?e most devout and- loudest of the. group who were on ■ , their knees in the roacf, and. among the ipudest p£ theih all was that young man. ,
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Observer, Volume 6, Issue 150, 28 July 1883, Page 3
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172A SHINING LIGHT. Observer, Volume 6, Issue 150, 28 July 1883, Page 3
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