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** SISTER AIMEE'S LOVE STORY.
HER FIRST HUSBAND'S PROPOSAL.
LONDON STILL UNMOVED.
IS THE LAW AN ASS?
MODERN MARRIAGE
SETTLEMENTS.
SOLICITOR'S IDEA OF ONE.
Mr. A. E. Bell, a London solici tor in a paper on "Is the Law LONDON, Oct. 10th. an Aas" at the Law Society's con Mrs. McPherson fell flat again ference at Eastbourne recently, de- last night at the Albert Hall. Theclared that in these days marriage front half of the arena was pack-
ed with Four Square Gospel fol-settlements" were mere pamphlets. lowers, who cried, Hallelujah!"
Betrothed beings nowadays," and Amen " bat the rest of
the hall appeared to be in a dull he said, "court by telephone and stupor and was never moved.
inarriage settlement each other by letter."
A Motorist's Proposal. He gave an example of a 'super
At the end of her speech Sister Aimee called for every head to be bowed and every eye closed, and then asked all who wanted her to pray for them to raise their hands. There was no movement. She ask-up-to-dats marriage contract which ed again, and slowly raised.
dozen hands were
One of the earlier items was. negro spiritual, “I ain't goin' to grieve my Lord any mo',' which Sister Aimee conducted with the figging arms, rolling eyes, and ayncopated voice infexions of the American jazz turn.
If
you get there before I do," cried Sister Aimee, with her eyes. lifted,
"just get out on the balus trade of heaven or somewhere and look for me," and she performed the rope-climbing, movement from the sailors' hornpipe.
The address was the first half of her life story. The second half will, she assured her audience, be more interesting.
Early Childhood, Her early childhood was spent in a religious atmosphere.I was put to bed every night with Jonah and the whale and Daniel and the lions' den." As she grew older she became very fond of dancing, rid- ing, swimming," and theatres. She did not dream then that she would ever be speaking to such a wonder ful audience in London, England. Then when she was seventeen she heurd Brother Robert Semple Three days later, walking along the road, she suddenly threw up her arma and cried out loud to God and surrendered herself to Christ.
The love interest was approach. ing. It happened in a house out- side the town. Two little children were suffering. from fever, sad Sister Aimee was sitting all night with them when in walked Rabbert". She asked him what He was doing there. "I heard the children were ill and I have come to sit up with them all night.”.
But I am sitting up with them,"
Then we will beth sit up with them," replied Brother Rabbert" Brother Semple prayed the chil dren to sleep, and then he and Sister Aimes went into the dining
room.
He told her that he was going to China as, a missionary. would like to go, too," was her re- ply.
Aimee, I love you," he cried. "Wait before you answer. Let us pray."
Her husband's death in China was described. Then to be con tibued.
A woman's protesting voice rang through the Albert Hall at the afternoon meeting.
read:
Dear Old Fruit,Suppose we park ourselves at the altar to- gether; you shall have the rub of my rabbit warren and all its gadgets. You know that my Jolly old life has had something done to it; I mean to say that when old daddy time throws a monkey wrench into my works somg giddy insurance company will hand you a cool thou sand and you CGA have my bank overdraft and everything what's over. All the best.
"Ambulance "Ohagere. “*
An attack on ambulance chas ing" by certaîn legal aid societies. woa made by Mr. E. R. Cook, Secretary of the Law Society.
If it were not possible, he said, for lawyers personally to chase am bulances in this country, it had been possible for them to aid pro- fessionally lay societies und indivi duals who had offered injured per- sons legal aid on a percentage basis.
suggested in the report of Mr. Mr. Cook advocated the remedy Justice Finlay's Committee on Legal Aid for the Poor-that the most satisfactory remedy would be the ousting of undesirable societies" by the steady spread of legal aid societies of the genuine type.
Mr. G. E. Hughes, Bath, refer- red to the number of cases of de- faulting solicitors: recently before the courts, urged that the compal sory audit of solicitors books was a reform which merited the atten- tion of the profession. Another suggestion be made was that solici tors should be required to find a fidelity guarantee.
Is it unreasonable," be asked, that we should give the public some measure of protection against misappropriation ?"
You must have been struck by the class of inan seeking to enter the profession," another speaker said. "He often looks as if he were going to attend a rat hunt. The ladies, however, turn up very well groomed."
The president, Mr. R. Mills Welsford, said with some warmth that he could never wish to meet a more steady or gentlemanly lot of men.
BETRAYED BY LOST TOOTH.
WOMEN SET POLICE ON MURDERER'S TRAIL.
Woman Braaks In. The interruption came towards the end, when a dozen "converts were on their feet, and Principal George Jeffreys, head of the British Foursquare movement, was leading the rest of the audience in prayer.
The body of a man found close My dear Mr. "Jeffreys!"
to the railway line between Ham- "the voice was that of a middle-aged identified as that of Herr Nord- burg and Bremen recently was woman, dressed in black, leaning' over the ledge of a second-tier box. mann, director of the Delmenhorst "My dear Mr. Jeffreys! Will Margarine Works. His purse and you kindly have the lady evangelist money were missing. explain some incidents to theIt was found that he had been British public especially that kid killed by a revolver bullet which napping incident
shattered his skull, the other in- juries being due to his fall from a train.
The silence for a few moments could be felt. Then, without a word. Principal Jeffreys picked up The next day a passenger in the a hyran sheet and led the audience Bremen night express told the in song. The hymn was, “ Just as police that a man in his compart I am Without One, Plen."
ment entered the lavatory, which Sister McPherson, who had re-opened also on to the adjoining garded the unknown interrupter compartment, and did not return. with mild interest, joined heartily in the singing..
The woman stood up fater and made another attempt to address the audience, but her voice was
drowned in a Fresh outburst of song.
Not hall of the seats were oc cupied.
Sister McPherson preached about the story of Adam and Eve, and told her listeners what a busy life she led.
I often wish I were triplets or at least twins," she said.
CINEMA NEWS.
"FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD"
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From his description, the police suspected that the man was û cer- taip Hoppp who had already been through their bands, and his des cription was circulated.
One evening a young man enter- ed a café in Kastel, a suburb of Mayence, and attracted attention The proprietress and her sister by his nervous and furtive manner. noticed, that although his hands were dirty he was wearing two diamond rings.
During a conversation he "laugh- ed excitedly, and the proprietress saw that one of his teeth was missing. In the account of the supposed criminal she had read this was mentioned, and she tele- phoned to the police.
The young man left the café, but the proprietress, had him followed and he was arrested at the railway station.
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