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 pounds in two weeks, before his conversion. He came twice to the meeting at Pendleton. He was a noted infidel and horse jockey, and would not allow a Bible in his house. I prayed for God to heal him, soul and body, and it was done, and he went home praising God, feeling he was every whit whole.

He had a large practice, but he found a great deal of time to work for God. He has been a fire-brand for God since his conversion, yea, hundreds have been brought to Christ through his labors. He lived many years, and every year on the anniversary of his conversion, he had a meeting in his house, at which there were many conversions. He had great success, became a statesman, and was a power for God. Glory to God for his wonderful works.

Just a word or two from the lips of the father of Sister D., of the vicinity of Alexandria, who, by faith, had been raised almost from the dead:

“For years, with a combination of diseases, my daughter was suffering. Five doctors had given her up to die. For about six: months she lay in bed, most of the time not being able to sit up without being propped up with pillows. It was decided by her physicians that there was no use in giving her any more medicine.

“When seemingly the last moments had come, when she could not raise her head, and had to be helped like a child, and was so light het husband could take her on his hands as he would a child, when fully given up to die, and when perfectly submissive to God’s will, she raised herself up in bed, and was standing on the floor before she knew what she was doing, and then began to walk around the room, a living skeleton. Her husband was very much alarmed, thinking death had struck her, and was looking for her to fall.

“Sister Woodworth was sent for to come and pray for her recovery, but she couldn’t come, but while in a buggy, prayed fervently for her recovery. At the same hour Mrs. D. went into a trance, in which she saw Christ surrounded by a bright light, and a crowd of sinners to the left. She felt herself raised up, arose from bed, walked out and ate a hearty supper. ‘The prayer of those who abide in God availeth much.’”

This sister went into the field as an evangelist, to work for the salvation of souls. We learn that she has had glorious success.

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 our trip South, stopping for a few days at the beautiful city of Louisville, Kentucky. We journeyed on southward, reaching Memphis, Tennessee, after several days of wearisome travel.

“We remained in Memphis about one month, holding meetings in several of the large churches. I started four revivals; also worked some with the colored people of that city. On our arrival at Indianapolis, Indiana, I found a letter awaiting, calling me immediately to New York City. We went, and for the first time saw the wonderful city—the metropolis of America.

We visited Central Park and many other beautiful places of interest during our stay; also attended Moody’s meetings, and assisted in the work.

As I stood on a street of the busy city and looked at the wonderful works of men, I saw the last prophecies fulfilled before my eyes. Chariots rushing over the tops of the high buildings, the cars flying through the air, and stations all around the city built in the air. Looking down from these stations you see the street cars jostling one against the other. Every place you look you can ear the voice of God speaking in tones of thunder: “Prepare for judgment; the angel will soon stand with one foot on the land, the other on the sea, and swear that delay shall be no longer.”

Leaving New York we returned: by way of Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After leaving these places, we went to Shippensburg and attended the eldership of the “Church of God.” On Sabbath they all insisted that I should preach. It was quite a cross, as my work had been in revivals, and I was very: tired after my long journey. They being all strangers to me, I knew it was more needful that God should be with me. The house was filled to the galleries; and the church-yard was filled. There were many-ministers present. I talked for one hour from the following words, found in I. Cor. xvi. 22: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.”

From there we went home with Elder M. to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and commenced meetings at that place, with a few hours notice. I stayed three weeks at this place and had a glorious meeting. Many aged ones were converted, one eighty-two Years old; also many of the best citizens. And the whole church

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Wyoming is an arid state and lacks the surface water needed to support expansive wetland complexes (Hubert 2004). Before Euro-Americans arrived, wetlands covered about 3.2 percent of Wyoming (Dahl 1990); however, less than 2 percent of the historical wetlands remain today (Wyoming Joint Venture Steering Committee 2010). Although wetlands cover only a small area, about 90 percent of the wildlife in Wyoming uses wetlands and riparian habitats during some part of their life cycles (Nicholoff 2003, Copeland et al. 2010a). Within the Intermountain West, more than 140 bird species and 25 mammal species are either dependent on or associated with wetlands (Gammonley 2004, Copeland et al. 2010a). Although wetland complexes tend to have greater overall use by wildlife (Wyoming Joint Ventures Steering Committee 2010), isolated wetlands in arid environments, such as many of the wetlands found on the Laramie Plains, are also extremely valuable for wildlife because they provide a crucial water source as well as needed food and cover. In these environments, wetlands are a hub of activity for the terrestrial wildlife that inhabits the surrounding area (WGFD 2010). However, Copeland et al. (2010a) found that wetlands within Wyoming’s desert shrublands and grasslands are poorly protected and therefore vulnerable, especially in the face of anticipated future land use changes.

Wetlands in the Laramie Plains consist of small ephemeral ponds, stock ponds, irrigated and nonirrigated meadows, playas, lakes, and riverine oxbows and floodplains. These different wetland types provide important breeding, staging, and stopover habitats for migrating waterfowl, shorebirds, and colonial waterbirds each spring and fall (Copeland et al. 2010b). Wetlands provide food-rich habitat so that these species can acquire the energy and nutrients needed to complete the long flights from wintering grounds to breeding grounds and back, as well as places to rest. Many bird species also use the wetlands in the Laramie Plains for breeding.

Many other wildlife species are dependent on these wetlands as well, including amphibians and reptiles. Amphibians, including the Wyoming toad and other species of toads, frogs, and salamanders, need water for breeding and larval development as well as to prevent desiccation. Reptiles such as garter snakes also prefer wetland habitats because they can feed on aquatic species.

Irrigated and Nonirrigated Meadows and Pastures

Privately owned wet meadow habitats are some of the most important unprotected wetlands in the Intermountain West. Since the early 1900s, flood irrigation has created many wet meadows in western North America (Peck and Lovvorn 2001). Irrigated wet meadows that are hayed and grazed annually (hay meadows) represent a particularly important subset of wetland habitat. These privately owned wetlands typically occur at mid- to high elevations (4,500 to 8,500 feet) in landscapes that are dominated by intact wetland, grassland, and shrub habitats. These areas are often made up almost entirely of native plant communities and can support high nesting densities of wetland- and grassland-nesting birds. These areas provide brood habitat for waterfowl and other waterbirds by supplying both protective cover from predators and productive foraging sites for rapidly growing ducklings and chicks. Wet meadows also provide crucial foraging habitat for migrating waterfowl and shorebirds. The quality and availability of spring migration habitat has direct implication for the survival and breeding productivity of migratory birds. The Laramie Plains provides important complexes of wet meadow, flooded pasture, and hayfields used by many species of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other waterbirds, including northern pintail, Clark’s grebe, white-faced ibis, American bittern, Wilson’s phalarope, American avocet, marbled godwit, long-billed dowitcher, and sandhill crane. The irrigated meadows and floodplain of the river are also believed, based on Baxter’s observations, to be important historical habitats for the Wyoming toad.

Riparian Areas

Riparian areas are vegetation communities that are immediately adjacent to and influenced by the hydrology of creeks, streams, and rivers. Riparian plant communities can be dominated by trees, shrubs, herbaceous vegetation, or a combination of these types. Riparian areas account for less than one percent of the western landscape, but they can be relatively more productive than other ecosystems (Svejcar 1997). Breeding bird densities can be up to 10 times greater in riparian areas than in adjacent, nonriparian habitats (Lohman 2004, Copeland et al. 2010). It is estimated that riparian habitat covers less than 2 percent of the State of Wyoming (Merrill and Fishery 1996).

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 choir was brought into the fold. When I came away T left five revivals in the city, all having glorious success. Three weeks before I went to this city a stranger. I had never been in the place before, nor held a meeting in the State. The first the people knew of my coming was the ringing of the church bell. The Church of God where I held the revival was in a very bad condition. They had had everything to discourage the few that were left.

One woman was saved at the wash tub. She shouted all over the house. A Catholic was struck down in a machine shop where several hundred men were at work. They thought he was dead, or dying. They did everything they could to bring him to, but all their efforts failed. He lay several hours, then sprang to his feet shouting the praise of God. The fear of God fell upon the men who saw him. They had to acknowledge that it was the power of God.

From Chambersburg we went to Huntington, Indiana, stopped at New Bethel and held a few meetings in Trinity Chapel.

From there we went to Columbia City, Indiana, where I organized a Church of God eight months previous when I was there. I found the church on fire for God. They have since put up a fine church edifice.

From Columbia City we went to Butler, Indiana, where I had a hard battle to fight for my Master, but glorious victory crowned my labors. I organized a Church of God of one hundred members. Nine years have passed since and the fire is still burning that spread in all directions at that time when hundreds were brought to Christ.

At the close of this meeting we started to visit my old home in Ohio, after an absence of three years. It was a great pleasure to meet all the loved ones again, especially my aged mother, and hear her say, as I kissed her at parting: “I will meet you in heaven.” My prayers have been answered; my mother was converted. At the age of seventy she found her Saviour.

On our way, returning from my home in Ohio, we stopped at Cleveland, Ohio. Some of the brethren heard I was in the city, and made an announcement for me for one meeting in the Mission Church of that city. I went, and the interest was so great that I continued for some time. Moody was in the city; people had been looking for him for over two months. Every one was

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 to go. We had large crowds. The interest increased. Power of the Lord was never so manifested in the city before. One business man was stricken down at his home. He sent to our meeting for some of the workers to come and pray for him. He seemed like a dying man, but he soon came out shouting and went to his place of business. At our next meeting he said he had gone away from our meeting, calling me everything but a lady, and told how God had stricken him down and showed him the pit of hell, and what an awful thing it was to fight against the power and work of God.

A student from one of the Cleveland colleges spoke lightly of the power of God at one of our meetings, and as he was going out of the door he was stricken down and had to be carried to his home. One of the wealthiest ladies of the city fell in a trance in the back part of the church. Every eye was on her. When she came to, she was converted. She got up and walked through the aisle, and told what God had done; then she got down and went to work with the seekers.

One of the city ministers spoke lightly of the power in one of our meetings; that night he went to his church to preach, but God had shut his mouth. He could not preach. He shut the Bible. His mouth was closed. He came back to our meeting the next day to make confession. He said God had brought him down through a wonderful experience, and he wanted to warn the people not to fight the power of God in those meetings. He said he believed God would smite them down, and spoke of the time when Saul’s daughter made sport of David for shouting and dancing before the Ark of God. God smote her with barrenness.

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Rh metres higher than it is at present; in localities where considerable changes in the contour of the surface must have taken place since they were deposited; and at great depths in aeolian rock, where bones of animals and shells are also found.

How long the boucher continued to be used cannot be ascertained, but at length better implements were formed. Possibly the first inhabitants had evolved by themselves something superior, or another section of people, having made an advance in knowledge somewhere else, migrated slowly to South Africa, and established new industries here. From this time forward the implements were formed, not of oval water-worn stones, but of pieces broken off a rock and then chipped into the required shapes. It might be a spearhead that was needed, or a scraper, or a chopper, or something to serve as a knife, all these could now be made. The arrowhead can hardly date back as far, for it implies a knowledge of the bow, an implement which must have been the product of much thought. But if the advance is due to immigration, not to native growth of knowledge, the bow may have been brought here by the newcomers, and the stone arrowheads found in great abundance be as ancient in South Africa as the knife or the unhafted axe.


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Rh of commanding ability, which may have been a good thing for them, compelling them to rely upon their own endeavors to make their mark in the world. He who cannot climb to eminence upon his own nose will naturally seek another footing. Addison had a smooth Grecian nose, significantly suggestive of his literary style. Tennyson's nose was long; so are some of his sermons in verse. Julius Caesar, too, was gifted with a long nose, which a writer in a recent review has aptly called "enterprising." That Caesar was an enterprising man some of his contemporaries could feelingly have attested.

The nose of Dante — ah, there was a nose! What words could do it justice? It is one of history's most priceless possessions. One hesitates to say what powers and potencies lay latent in that superb organ ; one can only regret that he did not give more time to the cultivation of its magnificent possibilities and less to evening up matters between himself and his enemies when peopling Hell as he had the happiness to conceive it.

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On the fifth day of March, 1914, Mr. Etter and myself (he then being quite poorly) with two young men, who were just branching into the Christian warfare, boarded the train for our field of labor in the city of Atlanta. The battle (from a human standpoint) promised to be a hard one, but we looked to Jesus, from whom we have received our commission; in His strength we went forward, knowing that as we did this we would win a great victory for Him, which would result in bringing many souls into the kingdom. I had hoped that the Lord would send us at least one good spirit-filled minister on whom I could depend a little to stand by my side, but no one seemed to be in sight, and no one was sent by God. In the meantime God showed me plainly that I was to look to Him entirely for the help and strength needed when the battle commenced; also that later he would send the help that I needed.

One thing that made the battle hard in this place was the many factions into which God’s people were divided. A number of the saints desired us to come a few months later, when they were going to have their large tabernacle ready for us; some seemed to pull one way and some another. A business man of the city (Mr. C. H. Burge), has had a little mission for years and the worshippers there call themselves “The Gideon Band.” These people later showed themselves worthy of the name. They sent a representative to Meridian while we were there and gave us an invitation to come to Atlanta. We felt that God’s hand was in this invitation and so accepted it, provided that the way would be opened. When Brother Burge (the representative), reached home he gathered together all the saints that could be interested in the prospect of having a great revival if I could come to their city.

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On the way north from Atlanta, we stopped at London, Ky. and held a few meetings. The leader, Dr. G. F. Lucas, a noble-hearted dentist, had one case in mind, thinking that if that one individual got healed, he would feel himself amply repaid for giving the invitation to stop off at London. His case was a middle-aged man who was born deaf and dumb. When he was prayed for his tongue was loosened and his ears opened, and he began at once to sound praises to God. He commenced learning words, and in a short time he could pronounce some of them after any one. The assembly praised God for what they saw in the way of healing the sick, realizing in a new way, that God’s power is really the same today as of old, if the conditions are met. Two or three others who had been mutes since childhood, were also delivered. An old, gray-haired man, who had been deaf since the Civil war, whose ear drum was destroyed in one ear, and the-doctor told him he could never hear out of it again; he was prayed for and heard the birds singing with his lately deaf ear on the way home from the service.

God did wonders for this little assembly. A neighboring woman at the house where we were staying had a little child about a year old. This child had been deformed. from its birth, and had a very irritable spirit, so that the mother had to carry and nurse it day and night. She brought it to the house where we stayed to be prayed for. We readily saw that the child was possessed of a demon, which was cast out in the name of Jesus, and from that very hour the child began to mend. Ina few days it was normal and quiet. The mother praised God for delivering her child. At the close of this meeting we felt led to go to Indianapolis and rest before we began the battle at Petoskey, Mich., where meetings were billed for the month of July.

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meeting at Petoskey, Michigan, was great in many ways, from first to last. It is a summer resort. The meetings at this place were not advertised long before the large, beautiful tent was put up with many small ones. There were no street cars; everybody had to walk from the main part of the town, this was much against the meetings, but the power soon fell and God drew the people.

This meeting was noted for sinners coming to Christ. In the first service, several old people, and some very prominent citizens were brightly converted. There were some great healings, great miracles the people called it, some were also struck down by the power of God. It was soon noised abroad that God was visiting the place. The interest increased at every service; these old men and women testified with bright faces and ringing voices. Praising God that, their names were written in heaven. Many of these got the “double cure,” were made whole of all their diseases, and received the resurrection life.

Ministers, evangelists, workers, and all classes came from many states, and were healed. Many were baptized with the Holy Ghost and received gifts of the Spirit, and fresh anointings. They also got the gifts stirred up and went forth from the meetings to publish the word, and tell what great things God had wrought.

We have heard many wonderful reports of good works from those who scattered the Holy Fire.

The heavenly choir was glorious. It was as if heaven had come down and the angelic choir had joined in with the redeemed of the Lord, having many invisible instruments. The large platform was filled with baptized saints, with their bright faces looking up to God, holding up holy hands. Bright lights were often seen over them. Jesus was seen. by many of them standing or walking in their midst. Musical instruments (Spiritual) were heard away back to the rear of the tent. A thousand or more were present; a holy stillness and a spirit of awe settled over the audience; they knew that God was in the midst. Two or three

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6 None of them were ground or polished, as chipping comprised all the labour that was bestowed upon them. They were the products of the skill of man still in a very low stage of his existence. Workshops where they were manufactured have been discovered in various places, and to some of these the raw material, or unchipped stone, must have been brought from a considerable distance. The artisans may have lived there permanently, or, what is more probable, some superstition may have been connected with the localities. At these factories a quantity of stone from which flakes have been struck, some raw material, a very few finished articles, and a great many broken ones usually lie wholly or partially hidden by drift sand or mould, and it is generally by accident that they are discovered. They prove that already man had learned the lesson of the value of a division of labour, for it can be taken for certain that every one was not his own manufacturer, but that only the most skilful were employed in making the best-formed tools.

The implements used at this stage of man's residence in South Africa were almost as well fashioned as those of the people termed by us Bushmen were found to be when Europeans first visited the country, so that it is reasonable to assume that the race was continuous, especially as no indications can be found of any subsequent intrusions until the arrival of the Hottentots and Bantu only a few centuries ago. Several improvements, though with one exception trifling, are observable, but no race, however backward, can continue to exist for an enormously long period of time without making some progress in knowledge and in manufactures. The stone implements therefore became gradually more varied and a few of them were more nicely finished, bone came into use for some purposes, and the spherical perforated stone, which shows the greatest advance of all, and which is not found with any of the early tools, was invented. Thus there was progress, though exceedingly slow, during the countless centuries that passed away.


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Rh In the earliest stages of man's development three principal causes must have operated in forcing him to think: hunger, disease, and war. These were the elementary factors of civilisation. In favourable localities in other parts of the world commerce, as a powerful factor, came at a later period, but in South Africa that stage was not easily arrived at.

This is apparent if the physical condition of the country be considered. The land rises from the ocean level in terraces or steps, until a vast interior plain is reached. Deep gorges have been worn by the action of water, in some places internal forces have caused elevations, in other places depressions, and everywhere along the margins of the terraces distortions may be seen. There are no navigable rivers, and the coast is bold and unbroken. The steep fronts of the terraces, which from the lower side appear to be mountain ranges, and the absence of running water in dry seasons over large surfaces, tended likewise to prevent intercourse between the different parts of the country. The rude people of each section were left to themselves, without that stimulus to improvement which contact with strangers gives. There was very little necessity to exert the mind to provide clothing or habitations, for since the close of the ice period in Europe and the corresponding fluctuations of temperature in the southern hemisphere the climate has been uniformly mild, and even on the elevated interior plain snow never lies long on the ground. Like the wild animals, man on occasions of severe weather could find some temporary shelter. In this respect a savage is far more callous than a civilised man.

Hunger must have forced him to think, to plan the destruction of game, to search for edible plants, and to reject those that were noxious; but after becoming acquainted with the flora in his locality and with the use of poison in the chase, that factor would lose much of its potency. The cultivation of the ground or the domestication of animals could no more enter the mind of a savage in the palæolithic stage than into that of a child learning to walk. Disease would compel him to think, but only in an exceedingly


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22 "gifts of grace divine" as these uncommon protuberances should be so sensitive to the blaze and blare of publicity. One would expect that in the fierce light that beats about an uncommon nose its fortunate owner would bask as contentedly as a python in the noon- day sun, happy in the benign beam and proud of every inch of his revealed identity.

To art, effacement of the nose will be of inestimable benefit. In statuary, for example, we shall be able to hurl a qualified defiance at Time the iconoclast, who now hastens to assail our cherished carven images in that most vulnerable part, the nose, tweaking it off and throwing it away almost before the sculptor's own nose is blue and cold beneath the daisies. In the statue of the future there will be no nose, consequently no damage to it; and although the statue may when new and perfect differ but little from the mutilated antiques that we now have, there will be a certain satisfaction in knowing that it has not been " retouched." In the case of portrait- statues and busts the advantage is obvious. When the nose goes the likeness goes with it; all men will look pretty nearly alike, and a bust or statue will serve about as well for one man as for another,


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Rh the gratification to see a half-dozen men, friends or enemies, who had fallen by either the one weapon or the other. Whenever the opposing lines actually met it was the rifle, the carbine, or the revolver that did the work. In these days of "arms of precision" they do not meet. There is reason, too, to suspect that, therefore, they do not "get mad" and execute all the mischief that they are capable of. It is certain that the machine gun will keep its temper under the severest provocation.

Another great improvement in warfare is a mirror or screen which is placed at the rear of heavy guns, reflecting everything in front. By means of certain mechanism the gun can be trained upon anything so reflected. This enables the gunners to keep out of danger in the bottom of their well and so live to a green old age. The advantage to them is considerable and too obvious to require exposition to anyone but an agnostic; but whether in the long run their country will find any profit in preserving the lives of men who are afraid to die for it — that is another matter. It might be better to incur the expense entailed by having relays of men to be killed in battle than to try to win battles with men who know


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8 slight degree when compared with a modern European, for his ailments were few and were in general attributed to witchcraft. War, whether against his fellows or the powerful carnivora, would be a more important factor in obliging him to exercise his mind, and to it was probably due the gradual though tardy improvement in his weapons by the selection of harder stone and by fashioning them more carefully. But slow indeed was the progress in cultivation from the hunter who used the stone weapons of early times to the Bushman who shot his bone-tipped arrow at an antelope at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Where the race of savages who occupied this country so long, the race now termed the Bushmen, had its origin can only be conjectured, and the highest authorities are not agreed as to the locality. That it once spread over the whole of Africa, a portion at least of Southern Europe, and South-Eastern Asia appears to be absolutely certain, but where did it have its birth and its early childhood? That is the doubtful question.

Dr. Peringuey believes in Africa, and he gives reasons for his conclusion that members of it migrated to Europe at a time so remote that there was a passage by dry land over the centre of what is now the Mediterranean sea. He does not allude to the section of the race in South-Eastern Asia, but confines himself to Europe and Africa.

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Rh of the Bushmen in Southern Europe, who lived there in what is termed the Aurignacian period, nearly in the middle of the palæolithic or rough stone age. They were negroids of small size, with short twisted hair. Their faces were almost vertical down to the bottom of the nose, and they had prognathous or projecting jaws and retreating chins, exactly similar to the Bushmen of South Africa. This is ascertained from two of their skeletons found in the Grimaldi caves at Mentone.

Their weapons and tools were the same in form and size, so much so that if a handful of Bushman arrowheads and scrapers were thrown into a heap of similar implements say in the museum at Brussels, they could not be separated again except by some one with a thorough knowledge of the composition of the rocks from which they were taken.

Engravings on pieces of ivory of the mammoth, now long extinct, made by these people, similar in character to Bushman engravings on stone, are familiar to students in the great museums of Europe. Many paintings on the walls and roofs of caverns, their work also, have been found during recent years in France and Spain. They are of exactly the same style as those of the Bushmen of South Africa, but of course represent different animals.

The best of these paintings yet discovered in Europe is a herd of bisons on the roof of the cavern of Altamira in Spain, in which various colours were used. Equal as a work of art, if not superior to it, is a hunting scene from a cavern in the mountains bordering Griqualand East in South Africa. Two stone slabs became detached from the roof of this cavern, and fell upon a heap of dust and debris,


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We went to Philadelphia, Pa., at the call of Brother Wm. Anderson and a few saints. There were many missions in the city, but not two united. Only a few were willing to stand with Brother Anderson, but the few put their whole energy with their money in the work. The Lord was in the move, the building went up. We found a nice tent at the end of the car line, with many small ones, and a fine tent for meals. Also, a nice home, well furnished, for myself and workers, with a sister there to cook and care for us. They gave us a warm welcome, and dear brother Anderson stood so nobly by us all through the meeting and helped to push the battle to the gate.

We would not permit any antagonistic spirit to come in; no doctrines aired, that would cause strife or division. The spirit of love was felt; they began to come from all the missions and felt that they were one in Christ Jesus. All felt their need of getting deeper in God. As the great crowds continued to increase, the presence of God was seen and felt by all. As the Word was preached with power, God demonstrated with mighty miracles, “Signs and Wonders,” till the sinners trembled and cried out, “What shall I do to be saved?”

Multitudes of men and women were healed and turned to the Lord. Many were baptized with the Holy Spirit, and gave strong messages in other tongues, as the Spirit gave utterance.

God wonderfully used Pastor Anderson, in tones of thunder, sounding like the voice of God. It was, for God said in the last days “with stammering lips and another tongue” will I speak to this people, but for all that some will not believe. (Isa. xxviii, 11,12.) Then the interpretation was given. Old men, women and children spake in languages, preaching and prophesying, singing new songs, the words of which had never before been heard; magnifying and praising the Lord. Many of all classes joined the Holy Dance, or joy dance, filled with the Resurrection Life and Lightness, dancing with closed eyes, faces bright and shining, sometimes playing with unseen instruments, singing and dancing to their own music.

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Rh cen whom he had slain, and became so expert in its use that he discarded his own weapon and used the other. But from that time forth he met with nothing but disaster and shame. It was discovered that in fitting the scimitar with a cross-hilt, as Christian piety demanded, the malicious armorer had substituted for one of the gems an emerald, which by some secret process he had disguised. The malign stone and the armorer's head having been removed the prowess of the knight was again effective and he rose to great distinction and honor. In the folk-lore of some of the riparian peoples along the Danube the topaz was listed as a peculiar possession of the Adversary of Souls. It was held that if one could by force or fraud get a topaz ring upon an enemy's finger it would be impossible to remove it, and the victim would go, body and soul, to the devil. Advancing enlightenment has effaced these silly superstitions ; we now know that the opal only is really malign.

We have it on the authority of Shakspeare that at least Aldermen wore thumb rings, for Falstaff avers that before he was blown up like a bladder by sighing and grief he could have crept through one, being " not an eagle's talon in the waist." If the custom had lived


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Chicago meeting started on October 10th, and is to continue one month or longer. It seems that we have never entered a battle before where the enemy had put up so many obstacles to prevent us from coming. These obstacles came at both ends, too. The dear saints that opened the way for us had their faith severely tested, in overcoming these obstacles. I felt that God wanted me to go at this time and that He was going to do a marvelous work there, and this was one reason why the enemy hindered like he did. However, the enemy was overcome by the blood of the Lamb, and the saints are all shouting victory.

The first meeting showed that God was well pleased to have this meeting go on at this time. Many of the saints were out, although the weather was unfavorable. Many of the saints were awe-struck by a Cloud of Glory that hovered all evening over the meeting. This cloud would come down at times till the saints felt the glory of the heavenly world. When the first meeting closed the saints felt that it spelled victory, and all felt impressed that God is going to do a great work in Chicago at this time.

The meetings are going on well, three times a day ever since they started. The crowd is increasing continually, and the interest increases. Many have been healed already of various diseases, also saved and baptized. Some lay prostrated at the altar at the close of nearly every meeting. While the message was being delivered the power struck some and they went down under the power of God.

A number of saints are present who have been at our meeting at Petoskey, Mich., and have been marvelously healed there. These are still shouting victory.

as long as nearly thirty years and are still shouting victory and have it, too.
 * Some are here that have been healed in my meetings

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 * The Gray Eagle (1864), a United States Supreme Court case
 * Gray Eagle (1927), a short story collection by Herbert Ravenel Sass
 * "Gray Eagle" (1927), a short story by Herbert Ravenel Sass

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Greetings to all the Saints, in Jesus’ Name, at home and abroad:

For the last three years my burdens and cares have been heavy. I traveled over 11,000 miles, carrying and caring for my invalid husband. I carried him from the Atlantic to the Pacific, holding meetings three times a day, in the large cities, and stayed at each city for a month or longer. With all the burdens that are connected with the work of the Lord, standing alone at times, caring for my husband day and night, then adding to all this the sorrow and bereavement of laying my husband to rest in August, while I was in the midst of a large campaign in Philadelphia, Pa., he urging me to go forward with the work to the very last. Passing through this heavy strain, and laboring continually, I finally got very weak in my body. I only kept going through Divine life and strength.

When I left home for our meeting in Chicago they had to take me to the depot in an auto. I went, believing that God called me, and that He would hold me up through the meeting, which was to continue for one month or longer, D. V. The Lord wonderfully sustained me through the time that I had promised. In my weakened condition I contracted a severe cold one day, which soon developed into pneumonia. My co-laborers and friends at once decided to take me away from the meeting, home to Indianapolis, where I could rest. Following you will find the testimony of a skilled medical brother, Dr. Green, of the Martinsville sanitarium, Martinsville, Ind., about my condition at this time.

Mrs. M. B. W. Etter, Indianapolis, Ind.

My Dear Mrs. Etter:—I wish to testify that on the 20th of November, on Sixty-third street in Chicago, at 10 a. m., I saw you in your room at a temperature of 102, pulse rate 100 and irregular, with prune juice expectoration, making a germ cell

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Works

 * A Sting in the Tale
 * Introducing Jesus

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On our way home from Tampa, Fla., at the earnest call from the dear ones at Atlanta,-we felt the Lord was calling, so we went and commenced a meeting in Bro. Jackson’s new hall, which was almost outside the city. We knew it would be hard for the people from the city to get there, especially the poor saints who would not have carfare to pay. The Messrs. Chapman and Alexander were holding a revival in the large tabernacle that was built for that purpose. The whole city had been canvassed, all churches arid missions had promised to help them. I did not want to commence near them, as it would look like opposition. Not one in a thousand would have tried to start a revival under such conditions. No one had promised me a dollar. I stood responsible for rent, and all expenses. I knew that many poor people could not attend the Chapman and Alexander meeting. I said we will start the meeting in Bro. Jackson’s hall and trust the Lord to draw the people. We shouted victory in Jesus’ name and told the saints that the large hall would not hold the people and it was so. Thousands attended the meeting; they could not all get in at times. Jesus says, “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me.”

Hundreds who had attended the year before, when we held a nine weeks’ meeting in the large tabernacle, came. Ringing testimonies came from those who had been saved and baptized with the Holy Ghost, or healed from day to day. As many as sixty who had received these blessings, testified in one day that they had been healed of all kinds of sicknesses and diseases, and had been kept well in soul and body. Jesus says, “Ye are My witnesses,” and “in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.” Jesus loves to hear the praises of the Redeemed so well that He stopped a great procession while on earth to hear the testimony of one poor leper, and the poor old woman who did not have a friend in the world. I am sure He stops the angel choir and the music in heaven to listen to

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After spending sometime in waiting before the Lord to be sure that He wanted me to accept the earnest call from Brother Hall and the saints to go the third time to hold another convention in the wicked city of Chicago when there were so many calls waiting for a date, to come to other states and cities; I was led to decide to go. Brother Hall came to my home in Indiana, and the Lord greatly blessed us in prayers and I felt convinced the Lord was leading me to give Chicago one more warning to prepare to meet Him. The dear brother secured the largest church available in the city, and ministers and saints came from all over the city, and also from many other states.

Among those who assisted was Brother Frazer of the Stone Church, and Sister Sisson, who has been much used and blessed of the Master too, and has labored in foreign fields, also assisted me in several other States. May the Lord add days and months to her life and make her flourishing, bearing much fruit in old age. Many messages and prophecies were given, both in English and “other tongues” of the soon coming of the Lord Jesus, and “the great tribulation,” and of the awful war, that is now on, and many other things that have already come to pass now in less than a year.

Several had a vision of the dreadful calamity that came a few days after the meeting closed, when the pleasure boat capsized on Lake Michigan, and hundreds of people lost their lives. They told again and again that a great calamity was at the door. It was told that some of those present, who were mocking would go down. The strike, which came on before we left, was foretold: many got their last call of mercy., The next will be at the judgment.

Jesus said, “The works that I do, they are they which testify of me, and the Father, who is with me, He doeth the works, now you have no cloak for your sins; you stand guilty and naked before God.” 27

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We were in St. Louis two weeks and held meetings twice a day and we had a glorious reunion with the dear saints who had been saved and healed and blessed in our former meetings in St. Louis, many from the noted “Kerry Patch” meeting twenty-seven years ago, and they all came together in love and fellowship, praising God for sparing my life, and theirs, to meet together once more to build up the temple of the Lord. The convicting, saving and healing power of the Lord was poured out on the meeting; many received the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, and sinners were slain by the mighty power of God. Many of the saints were led down in “green pastures,” having visions and “things to come” were revealed, with great demonstrations and divers gifts and operations of the Spirit. The crowds could not get into the hall; part of them had to stand on the outside, and part of the time they were held still and looked on in amazement. Bro. Bosworth of Texas was with us and assisted in the meeting, and many other ministers, also. There was no discord to disturb at all. All felt at home and that heaven had come down, and that the Lord of Hosts was present “confirming His Word with signs following.” Bros. Bell and Flower and Sister Flower were also present and helped. The Lord gave some messages in “other tongues” with power, eloquently and fluently, through Sister Flower. She is a power in the Hand of the Lord. She was wonderfully used in speaking in “other tongues” and in interpretations. Many others gave prophecies, messages and warnings, and telling the wonderful works of God, and of awful judgments coming on the world. It is nearly a year now since and many of the terrible things have already come to pass; many more will soon follow.

Some were in the holy dance with such grace and lightness, and the glory of the Lord shining in their faces and all over and around them. Dear Sister Ball, that was healed of consumption in Atlanta the year before, looked like an angel, everybody said. Her golden hair fell like a silken veil over her shoulders. She

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For two years Bro. Foster and the saints had been calling me to Topeka to hold a convention, and at last we: felt that the Lord was leading, so the last of July, 1915, I, with several, good workers, landed in the beautiful city of Topeka. Many of my readers have read of the great meeting we had in that city twenty-seven years ago, when I went with two young girls and a janitor as strangers, at the invitation of one minister, and held meetings for nearly two months in the beautiful park. My large tent, that held nearly eight thousand, had been given to me in Oakland, California, was destroyed by a storm. Thousands of people came out and saw we were trying to hold on in the grove. They went. to work at once, raised money and bought me a large new tent. Now, after all these many years, I find myself again holding meetings in the large city park theater, with merry-go- rounds, dance halls, all kinds of sports and amusements around. The dear Lord Jesus says, “If I be lifted up, I shall draw all men, unto Me.” He is the great drawing power. As we preached the Word giving Him the pre-eminence above all men and powers, the Lord was with us, confirming the word with “signs and wonders.” They began to bring the sick on beds and crutches, lame, blind and the halt were seen running from their cots and beds, and the blind were made to see, the lame leaping and shouting. Sinners wept their way to Calvary and arising and praising the Lord, for they had found Him precious to their souls. Many times the places of amusement were empty and the great theater was crowded and many could not get in. Many ministers of different faiths came from all parts on trains, in companies, bringing the sick with them.

All this was voiced abroad and there was a great stir. The brethren had been having meetings in the city for years; they were not liked and some had a prejudice against them. When they saw the great success, interest and large crowds, they said,

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{|style="width:100%; border-bottom:2px solid black" mack 1979, Gregory et al. 1991, Poff et al. 2011). It is estimated that about 90 percent of the total wildlife species in Wyoming use wetlands and riparian habitats either daily or seasonally and about 70 percent of Wyoming bird species depend on wetlands or riparian areas (Nicholoff 2003). Riparian areas are important migration and dispersal corridors that enable species to readily move through harsh grassland and desert environments.
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Many bird species use the riparian corridors of the Laramie Plains during spring and fall migration, and many others stay through the summer to breed. Insect production is high in riparian communities, leading to locally abundant concentrations of insectivorous birds and bats. In the Laramie Plains, narrow-leaf cottonwoods and several willow species are adapted to the natural flow dynamics of the streams and rivers in the area, but throughout the west, many riparian areas have declined because of widespread damming and water diversion. Many riparian and wetland areas within the Laramie Plains now support a variety of exotic and invasive plants, such as Russian olive and Canada thistle. Both the ranching and wildlife conservation communities have devoted significant resources in efforts to control invasive plants in the region.

Grasslands and Shrublands

The composition and structure of grasslands are affected by short growing seasons as well as frequent and occasionally intense natural disturbances such as drought, fire, and herbivory (Nicholoff 2003). Between 1950 and 1990, the grasslands west of the Mississippi River declined by 27.2 million acres (Conner et al. 2001). The greatest threats to grassland and shrubland ecosystems are oil and gas development, increasing urban and agricultural development, and invasive species. Usually dominated by grazers, grasslands are known to support large numbers of wildlife and have a significant influence on the plant and animal composition of grassland habitats (WGFD 2010).

In Wyoming, prairie grasslands usually occur below the elevation of 7,000 feet, but the Laramie Plains, which is at approximately 8,000 feet, contains the highest elevation grasslands in Wyoming (Knight 1996). Grasslands in Wyoming are characterized by interspersed short- and mixed-grass prairies and are typically unsuitable for farming; however, they provide an abundant grazing resource for cattle and sheep. Most of Wyoming’s prairie grasslands are privately owned (WGFD 2010).

Prairie grasslands support an impressive array of wildlife. White-tailed prairie dogs thrive in recently disturbed areas, living in large colonies, digging burrows, and keeping the surrounding vegetation short. Their burrows and open patches of ground create habitat for other wildlife species, including the black-footed ferret, long-tailed weasel, swift fox, mountain plover, and burrowing owl (Kotliar et al. 1999, Kotliar 2000, WGFD 2010). Prairie dogs also provide a prey base for species such as black-footed ferret, ferruginous hawk, and golden eagle.

Wyoming once represented the western edge of the range for many species such as mountain plover, ferruginous hawk, swift fox, and pronghorn. Intensive conversion of grassland in the Great Plains resulted in the loss of these habitats outside of Wyoming. Populations in Wyoming have remained largely intact, and the core of these species’ distributions is now considered to be in Wyoming (WGFD 2010).

Shrublands in the Laramie Plains are dominated by greasewood, saltbrush, and rabbitbrush, as well as some sagebrush. Shrublands are often intermixed with the prairie grassland community. Greasewood shrubland and saltgrass meadows are characteristic of the playas and other comparatively wet depressions (Knight 1996) that are scattered across the Laramie Plains. Shrubland communities provide habitat for a suite of wildlife species, including golden eagle, prairie falcon, mountain plover, Brewer’s sparrow, jackrabbit, coyote, bobcat, badger, pronghorn, and mule deer. Pronghorn are more common than deer in salt-desert shrub vegetation; however, both are highly mobile and use associated habitats, especially sagebrush and grasslands (Blaisdell et al. 1984).


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 *Yaichiro, Agano, potter, 324.
 * Yajibei, Funaki, potter, 336, 338.
 * Yajibei, Iwamura, potter, discovers the Amakusa porcelain stone, 101, 107; deified, 101.
 * Yajiro, Higuchi, potter, 107.
 * Yakichi, Mikuni, potter, 373.
 * Yamada Nagamasa, in Siam, 214.
 * Yamaguchi Prefecture. See Nagato, Suo ware.
 * Yamamoto family, potters, 139.
 * Yamamoto Tatsunosuke, potter, 229.
 * Yamamoto, Satsuma, pottery, 139.
 * Yama-no-uchi family, potters, 108.
 * Yamashiro, Asahi ware, 355; Tawara ware, 356.
 * Yamashita Magoroku, potter, 346.
 * Yamato province, Akahada ware, 356–358.
 * Yamazaki Heinai, potter, 348.
 * Yanase Jimbei, potter, 318.
 * Yanase Shunzo, potter, 318.
 * Yashima ware, 342.
 * Yasubei, various potters, descendants of Yasuchika, 187, 188. See also Hōzan.
 * Yasuchika, Minamoto no, potter, 176; descendants, 187, 188.
 * Yasuji, Yama-no-uchi, potter, 108.
 * Yasukata. See Tamikichi.
 * Yasukichi, Tashiro, potter, 114.
 * Yatsushiro ware, 322–324; revival, 324; character of modern ware, 325.
 * Yazaemon, Fukuda, potter, 109.
 * Yazaemon Kageyori, potter, 301.
 * Yedo, first pottery, 384; Imado ware, 384; Raku mosaics and modelled ware, 386; Banko ware, 387; Oniwa ware, 387; porcelain, 388, 418; surface decorators, 388–392; Takata ware, 392; Kōren ware, 393; Koishikawa ware, 394.
 * Yohei, Mori, pottery, and the Yusetsu ware, 363.
 * Yōhei, Taizan, Awata potters of various generations, 199, 200.
 * Yohei, Yama-no-uchi, potter, 108.
 * Yojibei, potter, 312.
 * Yorasaku, Higuchi, potter, 108.
 * Yoshida Denemon, revives the Kutani ware, 249.
 * Yoshida Hikoroku, potter, 403.
 * Yoshida-mura, Hizen, pottery, 115.
 * Yoshiemon, patron of keramic art, 139.
 * Yoshihiro, chief of Satsuma, patron of keramic industry, 135–137, 141.
 * Yoshimasa, Ashikaga Shōgun, as an art patron, 17.
 * Yosōbei Kagemitzu, potter, 301.
 * Yosōbei of Kyōtō, potter, 227.
 * Yosoemon, Mori, potter, 333.
 * Yozaemon, Hasegawa, potter, 202.
 * Yujiro, potter, 247.
 * Yūriaki, emperor, edict on royal pottery, 7.
 * Yusetsu, Mori, potter, counterfeits Banko ware, 361; original developments, 362; character of his ware, 362; development in hands of his son, 363; varieties and essential feature of the ware, 364.
 * Yusetsusai. See Takenouchi Kinshū.
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 * , Nishimura, potter, ancestry, 219, 225; early work, 219; imitations, 220, 221; patronage of the chief of Kishū, 220–222, 375; his glazes, 220; marks, 221, 222, 375; ware, 220, 223; at Kaseyama, 222; at Omuro, 223; at Otsu, 223; sons, 223; versatility, 224.
 * Zenshiro, Tsuchiya, potters of several generations, 337, 338.
 * Zeze, Omi, ancient kilns, 365; various wares, 366–368.
 * Zōrōku, Mashimizu, potter, 225.
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The work that God did at our meeting at Topeka, Kans., began to spread far and near. Los Angeles, Cal., where we held the World-wide Camp-Meeting just a few years before, was the next field of labor that we had promised.

In the meantime the saints at Colorado Springs, Colo., learned that we were to pass through their city and that we had a little time left before our meeting in Los Angeles began. They sent in urgent requests to us; “Real Macedonian Cries” for us not to pass them by without giving them a meeting, and deal out to them the Bread of Life. Although I needed rest so badly, I felt that I could not pass by this needy field of labor, and we promised them a few weeks’ meeting. When the saints received my assurance that I was coming, they at once began to cry to God for good weather. They had rain almost every day for a long time, making it almost impossible to hold a meeting in a tent. God wonderfully heard and answered their prayers. The day the meeting started it stopped raining and did not rain again until the day after we closed, except for one little shower, which lasted only a few minutes while the meeting was on. This little shower showed us how helpless we would have been had not God checked the rain, as the tent let the water through so that we had to use umbrellas.

God greatly blessed us while the meeting lasted. They all told us that it was a hard field of labor, little having been accomplished for God all summer. We found out that this was so, but nothing is too hard for God, if we only trust Him and keep looking up to him.

The meeting was not extensively advertised, as we came on short notice. Just a few days before we arrived the minister whose field of labor it was, and whom we expected to stand right by us, got an urgent call to help in another field, This left us practically alone, but God was still with us, 435

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From the time I left the World-wide Camp-meeting in Los Angeles, I felt that the Lord would call me back and that my work was not finished in that city. From the time I left I received calls from all over the State to go back. At last, through the earnest call of dear Bro. G. Garr, and many of the saints, and feeling sure that it was the Lord’s wish, I accepted the call.

They rented a large garage, the largest building that could be secured, seating about two thousand people. October 1st was the date set for the opening. We had been laboring hard and steady from the time the Lord had raised me from what many believed to be my death bed, through His miraculous power, eight months before, when we started on the long journey to Tampa, Fla. In those eight months we had held conventions in six States, the meetings lasting from two to six weeks at a time. I was very tired when we started on the long journey to California, but the Lord sustained me and kept me safely night and day for the month in Los Angeles. We had many difficulties and trials and many things to contend with that greatly hindered the work; so that the Lord could not have His way. The cloud of glory was always over the people, but many times when the Lord was ready to come forth in a mighty way, some one or more would get in the way and the cloud departed from the tabernacle. Oh! why is it that so many of the saints get in the way and try to steady the ark, when they ought to know that it is speedy death or barrenness to their souls and lives when they do it? The Spirit is grieved, that is why there is so little of the presence of the Lord felt and seen, and also why there is not great results in the salvation of souls. God cannot come forth with His wonderful working power in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, sealing the saints with the signs following.

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holding meetings in Los Angeles we had many calls from all over the State, but no one gave us any encouragement to go to San Diego, they said no one seemed to have very much means, and that it was a hard place, only a few saints, and they were all divided on strange doctrines.

I said, “I think I am more needed there than any other place.” God is all powerful, and He always sends me to the hardest place, but He never has failed to go with me, and has always came forth and led, us on to glorious victory, I hear Him say, “preach my word, and I will be with you and bear witness of my Presence and approval with ‘signs and wonders.’” Well, praise His Name, there was not an encouraging feature; we were up against a stone wall. The few saints made quite an effort, and were willing to do anything, to have victory for the Lord Jesus in that place, where they knew so little of the Spirit and power of God.

Brother Harlow did all he could, stood nobly by, and went on with the work after I left, with good success.

The Lord was present in the first service to save and to heal.

As the saints and ministers came in from different places they all began to get deeper in God. He came forth in many mighty signs, the most powerful messages in new tongues or other languages, many as on Mount Sinai as the trumpet sounded louder and stronger and the people in the camp trembled. They knew it was the voice of Jehovah.

So in the meeting at San Diego, the people knew that the Lord was speaking through the lips of clay, warning, and prophesying, and showing the judgments of God, that were being poured out, and more awful calamities that were coming soon and some that were right at the door.

These messages were interpreted in English in an intelligent and fluent manner so that the fear of God came on every meeting.

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San Diego we went to San Francisco. Brother Craig met us, and took us to his home of faith. There we were made to feel at home, and everything was done for our comfort. Many saints came to the home and we had blessed fellowship; the sweet peace of God was always present all over the house.

The meeting commenced with power. The saints had been praying much, and they made every sacrifice to push the battle through to victory. The Lord was present to confirm His Word with visible signs of His invisible Presence. The people came and heard, saw, and wondered. Fear and conviction fell day after day and the people were made to say, “Surely God is in our midst.” The altar was crowded daily; they came from all parts, and were saved, healed, filled with God, and baptized in the Holy Ghost. When their friends saw what a change had taken place, many of them started at once to attend the meeting. The interest grew. People of all classes were saved, including Jews. One afternoon, as we entered the theatre where our meeting was held, the minister met us at the door. He told us that they had brought a woman in an auto, and that the last six dollars they had had been given him to bring her, and he would not wait for the meeting, and placed the sick woman in the aisle nearest the entrance. It was a sad sight. The woman had two little children and she had not walked alone for four years. She was afflicted with many diseases. Her husband was also badly diseased, and discouraged. She knew it was her last chance, so she had faith as we pointed her to the loving Saviour, and prayed the prayer of faith, and laid on hands, the unclean spirits left her, the healing virtue came and swept through and over her, and she knew she was healed. She stood up, walked and shouted. “Glory to God!” Her husband began to praise the Lord, and he, too, was healed. She took up her child and walked out to the auto, As I went forward to the platform, I saw them carry a

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were very sorry to close the meeting at San Francisco, for the convincing and awakening power was spreading in all the churches over the city. Many said if the meetings could have continued a few weeks longer, they believed thousands would have been brought to Jesus. We felt that our work was not done in that city, nor in many places in the State, so we all felt that in the near future God would send us back.

We started on the long journey over the plains and mountains, the Lord wonderfully strengthened us. When we arrived in Houston, Texas, we were met by Brother Morwood (the pastor), for the first time, who with a few saints had made a brave effort to prepare for the largest Pentecostal convention that had ever been held in the city and praise the Lord they were not disappointed; for when we closed he, with many others, told a large audience, that the meetings were successful in every way, much more than he expected: that miracles of healing and signs of the presence of God was far beyond anything he had ever seen.

Brother Ritchey and son, from Zion City, Ill., were present to help in most of the meetings; also Brother Caruthers was a blessing to all and encouraged me. From the first service till the last, they brought their sick, lame, blind, deaf and dumb; some on beds; some on crutches; others carried in, but there was none too hard for the Lord. Every one that came in God’s divine way was made to shout and praise the Lord for healing.

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 something not far short of a genius for cookery. She had a guess of her excellence herself. After every dish was sent in, she would come and look on at the dinner for a while, with puckered, blinking eyes. "C'est bon, n'est-ce pas?" she would say; and when she had received a proper answer, she disappeared into the kitchen. That common French dish, partridge and cabbages, became a new thing in my eyes at the Golden Sheep; and many subsequent dinners have bitterly disappointed me in consequence. Sweet was our rest in the Golden Sheep at Moy.


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 * Introduction
 * 1) The seed of change
 * 2) The meaning of love
 * 3) An invitation to a party
 * 4) Getting lost and losing out
 * 5) A long-term investment
 * 6) The paradox of pardon
 * 7) That Monday-morning feeling
 * 8) The ultimate insult

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Everyone loves a story. Stories are universal and timeless. They can bridge the gap between people of different ages, social backgrounds and cultures. They don't just inform the mind, they engage the heart. And though they can be immensely entertaining, stories can also sometimes be very profound too. Jesus loved to tell stories, or 'parables', as he called them. This book examines several of the most famous which are preserved for us in the gospel of Luke. Maybe a word or two about parables generally will be helpful before we begin to study some particular examples.

Jesus' parables fall into two broad categories. Some are simply extended similes. The kingdom of God is like a pearl of great value (Matthew 13:45-46) or a net cast in the sea (Matthew 13:47). Such parables are coded visual aids. They illustrate a particular spiritual truth that Jesus is trying to get across, but in a deliberately cryptic fashion. There's another sort of parable, though, in which Luke is particularly interested. This kind goes further than simply being an extended simile. It's much closer to being an allegorical story. In these 'parable tales' Jesus is not merely seeking to tantalize or educate his hearers; he's wanting to challenge them at a fundamental level. On the surface, such stories seem innocuous; charming little narratives full of familiar images that easily capture your attention. In reality they're a kind of Stealth bomber, specially designed to evade our psychological defences, insinuating themselves inside our mind in spite of every barricade we may seek to erect, and then dropping a highly explosive charge targeted at the most vulnerable point in our spiritual complacency.

One feature that is often characteristic of these story parables is that they have a sting in the tail; a punch-line that creeps up on you and then kicks you in the stomach when you're not expecting it. In some respects, that makes these parables peculiarly difficult to re-tell today. Some of them have become so well known that they're part of our cultural furniture, and as a result, have lost much of their original novelty value. The good Samaritan and the prodigal son, for instance, are so familiar that their punch-lines no longer convey the same shock. We're waiting for it; it doesn't take us by surprise. Worse still, perhaps, even the lack of surprise doesn't surprise us.

With a little bit of imagination, however, it is not impossible to recapture the original impact of these stories. It means that we have to project ourselves back into being one of Jesus' original audience. Then at least in measure we can rediscover just how subversive and radical these parables of his really were. That at any rate is our aim in this book. We are going to try to find 'the sting in the tale', if you'll forgive the pun. If we succeed—if Jesus' Stealth bombers find their target in us—then beware! We shall not be left the same after their attack. Each one carries a one-megaton charge guaranteed to blow your mind!

Originally these eight chapters were all sermons preached in various contexts. Some were given to the Keswick Convention, and I am grateful for permission to reproduce that material here. The remainder were delivered at Eden Chapel, Cambridge, in the course of normal Sunday services. Thanks are due to the staff of IVP who have performed the hard work of transcribing those addresses from tape recordings. In both cases the sermon text has been only lightly edited and the reader will often catch the flavour of oral style as a result. Maybe that is appropriate, for Jesus' parables were all originally spoken to a live audience, too.

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37 in the fullest sense be a gentleman who is not one in manner. And you, who by birth and education, and the refinement which comes from abundance, have all the advantages of the best gentleman, should certainly be careful to add to these advantages, as with care you may, the grace of good manners/'

Generally our words must be pleasant in tone and agreeable to the ear of the listener. When a visitor comes to you, or when you happen to meet a person outside, you should try to lead the conversation with a smile, as, it is said, Sri Rama did who thereby acquired the distinctive name of "one who leads the conversation with a smile." Be careful that your meaning is clear and pleasantly expressed. In conversation never speak or ask about family calamities, of deaths in detail, and of other unpleasant topics. You should also not ask any person about his age, children.


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38 salary, or about anything else personal unless you are an intimate friend of his. Sometimes some words which are not wrong in themselves are quite unsuited for the occasion. When you visit a person you should not ask the value of anything you see in his room. If you see anything to be admired, you may ask his permission to look at it and may even ask him where such a nice thing was made. But never put such questions to those that are higher in rank or in official position. On being asked, give your opinion frankly in polite words on a subject you know. If you have to make any remarks, be modest in making them. If you know little or nothing of a subject, say so plainly, but never pretend to know it. You must be careful to speak with respect when you meet those that have authority over you. But even to them never use exaggerated expressions for the sake of compliment.


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39 You must also be polite and pleasant in your actions as in your words. A man of your position must be very polite and agreeable to others. Your position itself brings you honour and you will be naturally respected by others; and if you be polite and courteous to others you will reap greater respect, for politeness never decreases it. On the other hand, do not be too submissive when you meet Europeans. Behave as becomes your position, and move about naturally and not as if in strange society. Except in business matters, they, too, don't like to see people of our rank too submissive. Carefully notice how among Europeans a superior officer and his subordinates mix freely with one another when they meet.

Make your bow as gracefully as you can to the ladies, shake hands with them gently, and put on your pleasant looks. Punctuality and neat dress come under the


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Sigi, son of Odin.

Rerir, son of Sigi, king of Hunland.

Volsung, son of Rerir.

Sinfjotli, son of Sigmund and Signy.

Helgi, son of Sigmund by Borgny.

SIGURD FAFNIR’S-BANE, posthumous son of Sigmund by Hjordis.

Swanhild, his daughter, by, Giuki’s daughter.

Siggeir, king of Gothland, husband of Signy.

Borgny, first wife of Sigmund.

Hjordis, his second wife.

King Eylimi, her father.

Hjalprek, king of Denmark.

Alf, his son, second husband of Hjordis.

Regin, the king’s smith.

Fafnir, his brother, turned into a dragon.

Otter, his brother, slain by Loki.

Hreidmar, the father of these brothers.

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Rh to have been derived from the latter, and to have been corrupted in the process.

2. Cædmon's name has never been on the Cross.

3. Linguistic considerations would refer the inscription to the tenth century, and probably to the latter half of that century.

4. Archaeological considerations are to the same effect as those drawn from the language.

Accordingly, there is no shadow of proof or probability that the inscription represents a poem written by Cædmon.

We pass now to the second hypothesis with respect to the Dream of the Rood, that which assigns its authorship to Cynewulf. Kemble was the first to make the suggestion that all the poems of both the Exeter and Vercelli Books might be by Cynewulf, whom, however, he conceived to be an Abbot of Peterborough, living at the beginning of the eleventh century. Thorpe believed that Cynewulf, the Abbot of Peterborough, was the author of the Juliana and perhaps all the Vercelli poetry. In all this, it will be observed, there is no specific attribution of the Dream to Cynewulf, but merely a conjectural assignment of the whole body of poetry in the manuscript which contains it. For an attempt to show why Cynewulf might be reasonably regarded as the author of the Dream of the Rood in particular, we must refer to the celebrated scholar Franz Dietrich.

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The habitats within the Laramie Plains support a wide variety of wildlife. Appendix E lists the species that are known and suspected to occur within the project area.

Amphibians and Reptiles

Due to the cold, arid climate, amphibian and reptile diversity within the Laramie Plains is low compared with other areas of the country, but there are several species that thrive here. The shrublands are home to the short-horned lizard as well as several species of snakes. Because of the arid nature of the region, amphibians are restricted to the riparian and wetland areas; these areas provide habitat for the tiger salamander, boreal chorus frog, Wyoming toad, and northern leopard frog. Although the northern leopard frog was once abundant throughout its range, it has experienced significant declines in the west (Smith and Keinath 2004a). A variety of factors, including habitat loss, disease, chemical contamination, introduced predators, and general environmental degradation have been linked to observed population declines, but no one primary factor has emerged as the cause of the decline, and most likely it is caused by multiple factors that can vary from site to site (Smith and Keinath 2004a). This species is listed as a Species of Greatest Conservation Need by the WGFD (2010). See the discussion of Wyoming toad under species of special concern below.

Birds

The Laramie Plains provides migratory and breeding habitat for many bird species, many of which are not found in any other area of Wyoming. The National Audubon Society (2011) has designated the Laramie Plains Lakes Complex as an Important Bird Area because of the diversity of birds found within the basin, which highlights the regional and continental significance of the area. Thirty-eight of the 55 birds on the WGFD Species of Greatest Conservation Need List and 59 of 97 birds on the Intermountain West Joint Venture priority species list occur in the Laramie Plains. More than 146 species of birds have been documented on the refuges. Some of these birds are year-round residents, but many migrate through the basin on their way to and from breeding and wintering grounds. Others come to the basin to breed or spend the winter.

Given the scarcity of water in the semi-arid landscape of the Laramie Plains, it is not surprising that wetlands within the basin are regionally important to both resident and migrant waterbirds (Nicholoff 2003). The marshes and open water of the basin support 26 species of waterfowl, including canvasback, northern pintail, Barrow’s goldeneye, lesser scaup, and redhead, all of which are Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Wyoming (WGFD 2010). Many waterfowl species are also known to breed in the basin, including American wigeon, blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, northern shoveler, canvasback, northern pintail, green-winged teal, lesser scaup, gadwall, ruddy duck, common merganser, and Canada goose. American avocet and Wilson’s phalarope are shorebirds that migrate from their winter ranges in Mexico and Central and South America to breed in the wetlands of the Laramie Plains. At least 22 other species of shorebirds use these wetlands as either stopover or breeding habitat. Two shorebird species that migrate through the basin, the long-billed curlew and the marbled godwit, are focal species for the USFWS Migratory Bird Program and are USFWS Region 6 Birds of Conservation Concern. Seventy percent of Wyoming bird species are wetland or riparian obligates (Nicholoff 2003).

The upland areas in the Laramie Plains provide essential habitat for many bird species. Shrub and grassland habitats support species such as golden eagle, burrowing owl, Brewer’s sparrow, sage sparrow, and grasshopper sparrow. Prairie falcon is a common resident and uses the upland areas for feeding and resting. The mountain plover, a tier I Species of Greatest Conservation Need within the State of Wyoming, breeds in at least five concentrated areas in Wyoming, one of which is the Laramie Plains. The mountain plover is affected by the loss of breeding habitat as a result of fire suppression, conversion of native grasslands to croplands, and habitat loss to urbanization (WGFD 2010). Figures LPP–4 through


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 first-personal interventions, but that he does so with a curious touch of dishonesty. I agree with the late Mrs. Craigie that there was something profoundly vulgar about Thackeray. It was a sham thoughtful, sham man-of-the-world pose he assumed; it is an aggressive, conscious, challenging person astride before a fire, and a little distended by dinner and a sense of social and literary precedences, who uses the first person in Thackeray's novels. It isn't the real Thackeray; it isn't a frank man who looks you in the eyes and bares his soul and demands your sympathy. That is a criticism of Thackeray, but it isn't a condemnation of intervention.

I admit that for a novelist to come in person in this way before his readers involves grave risks; but when it is done without affectations, starkly as a man comes in out of the darkness to tell of perplexing things without—as, for instance, Mr. Joseph Conrad does for all practical purposes in his "Lord Jim"—then it gives a sort of depth, a sort of subjective reality, that no such cold, almost affectedly ironical detachment as that which distinguishes the work of Mr. John Galsworthy, for example, can ever attain. And in some cases the whole art and delight of a novel may lie in the author's personal interventions; let such novels as "Elizabeth and her German Garden," and the same writer's "Elizabeth in Rügen," bear witness.

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Mammals

Many species of small mammals live in the region, including the white-tailed prairie dog, muskrat, and American beaver, as well as multiple species of ground squirrel, mouse, vole, and shrew. The white-tailed prairie dog is considered a keystone species because species including black-footed ferret, swift fox, American badger, ferruginous hawk, and several other large raptors depend on prairie dogs as prey; species including black-footed ferret, burrowing owl, and swift fox depend on prairie dogs to provide burrows as cover and den substrate; and species including mountain plover and McCown’s longspur depend on prairie dogs for shortgrass and semibarren habitats. Black-footed ferrets, in particular, depend so strongly on prairie dogs that ferret recovery and management is, in effect, prairie dog management.

Four of Wyoming’s seven big game species, mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, and pronghorn, are known to reside in or migrate through the project area.

Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates

Fish and aquatic invertebrate populations that were present before Euro-American settlement are not well known in much of the west, and the North Platte River basin, which contains the Laramie Plains, is no exception. The list of aquatic species in appendix E is short and likely incomplete, especially in regards to aquatic invertebrates. It is well accepted that there were no sport fish in the Laramie Plains, or elsewhere in the entire North Platte River basin, before Euro-American settlement (WGFD 2010). Small fish such as hornyhead chub and Iowa darter probably dominated fish assemblages, but these species were greatly affected by the deliberate introduction of various trout species and other exotic taxa, including carp, beginning during early Euro-American settlement and continuing until the present. It is believed that hornyhead chub is found only in the North Laramie River and the Lower Laramie River, and it is believed to be extinct in Montana, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas (WGFD 2010). Populations of native aquatic invertebrates were probably also dramatically changed by the introduction of nonnative fish.

Several federally listed species live in, or have home ranges that overlap, the conservation area.

Wyoming Toad

The project area now supports one endangered species, the Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus (Bufo) baxteri). First described in 1946 by Dr. George T. Baxter, it is thought to be a glacial relict. The toad once flourished in the Laramie Plains, but in the 1970s the population dramatically declined, and by the 1980s, individuals were extremely rare (Baxter and Stromberg 1980, Stromberg 1981, Vankirk 1980, Baxter and Meyer 1982, Baxter and Stone 1985, Lewis et al. 1985). The species was federally listed as endangered in 1984 under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). In 1993, under the authority of the Endangered Species Act, Mortenson Lake Refuge was established for the protection of the last known Wyoming toad population. It is considered the most endangered amphibian in North America (IUCN 2012).

The historical distribution of the Wyoming toad, based on scientific records from Dr. George Baxter and Ronald Beiswenger’s research, includes the floodplain ponds and small seepage lakes associated with the Big and Little Laramie Rivers as well as other wetlands within the shortgrass communities of the Laramie Plains in Albany County, Wyoming (figure LPP-8). Current distribution is limited to Mortenson Lake Refuge and one nearby Safe Harbor Act site. There are very few Wyoming toads thought to be in the wild and approximately 500 in captivity. The small number of individuals is considered one of the severe threats to the toad. Another major threat to the Wyoming toad is infectious disease, including the amphibian fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) which has been linked to amphibian declines worldwide (Berger et al. 1998). Bd was documented in wild Wyoming toads from Mortenson Lake in 2000 and in 2001 (USFWS 2013). The other severe threat to the Wyoming toad that is discussed in the recovery plan is the lack of perpetually protected habitat. The proposed action directly addresses this severe threat to the Wyoming toad by protecting habitat that is needed for the next step of recovery and which is important for the future of Wyoming toad conservation.

Little is known about the habitat requirements for the Wyoming toad but the current thought is that the toad historically occurred in rivers and associated floodplains (lotic habitats) of the Big and Little Laramie Rivers and ponds and lakes (lentic habitats). Ongoing research, supported by the Service and a


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Rh And so ends the seventy-third Section in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.

( Sambhava Parva continued. )

Vaisampayana said, "After Dushmanta had left the asylum giving those promises to Sakuntala, the latter of tapering thighs brought forth a boy of immeasurable energy. And when the child was full three years of age, he became in splendour like the blazing fire. And, O Janamejaya, he was possessed of beauty and magnanimity and every accomplishment. And the first of virtuous men, Kanwa, caused all the rites of religion to be performed on that intelligent child thriving day by day. And the boy gifted with pearly teeth and shining locks, capable of slaying lions even at that age, with all auspicious signs on his palm, and broad expansive forehead, grew up in beauty and strength. And like unto a celestial child in splendour he began to grow up rapidly. And when he was only six years of age, endued with great strength he used to seize and bind to the trees that stood around that asylum lions and tigers and boars and buffaloes and elephants. And he rode on some animals, seized some, and pursued others in sportive mood. The dwellers of Kanwa's asylum thereupon bestowed on him a name. And they said, because he seizes and restrains all animals however strong, let him be called ' (the restrainer of all.) And it was thus that the boy came to be named ', endued as he was with prowess and energy, and strength. And the Rishi seeing the boy and marking also his extraordinary acts, told Sakuntala that the time had come for his installation as the heir-apparent. And beholding the strength of the boy, Kanwa commanded his disciples, saying, 'Bare ye without delay this Sakuntala with her son from this abode to that of her husband blessed with every auspicious sign. Women should not live long in the houses of their paternal or maternal relations. Such residence is destructive of their reputation, their good conduct, their virtue. Therefore delay not in bear-


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220 ing her hence.' The disciples of the Rishi thereupon, saying 'so be it,' went towards the city named after the elephant (Hastinapore) with Sakuntala and her son before them. And then she of fair eye-brows taking with her that boy of celestial beauty endued with eyes like lotus leaves, left the woods where she had been first known by Dushmanta. And having approached the king, she with her boy resembling in splendour the rising Sun was introduced to him. And the disciples of the Rishi having introduced her, returned to the asylum. And Sakuntala having worshipped the king according to proper form, told him, 'This is thy son, O king! Let him be installed as thy heir-apparent. O king, this child, like unto a celestial, hath been begotten by thee in me. Therefore, O thou best of men, fulfil now the promise thou gavest me. Call to thy mind, O thou of great good fortune, the agreement into which thou hadst entered on the occasion of thy union with me in the asylnmasylum [sic] of Kanwa.'

"The king, hearing these her words, and remembering everything, said, 'I do not remember anything. Whose art thou, O wicked woman in ascetic guise? I do not remember having contracted any connection with you in respect of Dharma, Kama and Artha. Go or stay or do as thou pleasest.' Thus addressed by him, the fair-complexioned innocent one became abashed. Grief deprived her of consciousness and she stood for a time like an wooden post. Soon, however, her eyes became red like copper and her lips began to quiver. And the glances she now and then cast upon the king seemed to burn the latter. Her rising wrath, however, and the fire of her asceticism, she extinguished within herself by an extraordinary effort. Gathering her thoughts within a moment, her heart possessed with sorrow and rage, she thus addressed her lord in anger, looking at him. 'Knowing everything, O monarch, how canst thou, like an inferior person, thus say that thou knowest not? Thy heart is a witness a regards the truth or falsehood of this matter. Therefore speak truly without degrading thyself! He who being one thing, representeth himself as another thing to others is like a thief and a robber of his own self. Of what sin is he not capable? Thou thinkest that