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He gradually acquired a facility in expressing his thoughts, and, better still, he had thoughts to express Some of the prisoners, ere in durance but for a brief time, asked him to take a class in the Guy-Street Mission Chapel

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But the superintendent and pastor, after some hesitation and inquiry, concluded they did want him there, and with some ex-prisoners as a nucleus, he unobtrusively formed a class near the door The two ht sincerity and sy hands, and his class began to grow until it swa classes with uncouth and unke creatures that were drawn by the voice that asserted their radation Finally, before another year ended, a large side-roo, and he made every one that entered it, no ood in the truth because he so thoroughly believed it hi of publicans and sinners, gathered frohted up with thought and sympathy, spoke to them the truth in such a way that they understood it and felt its power, one could scarcely have believed that but two years before he had been dragged from a drunken brawl to the common jail The explanation is simple--he had followed closely that saht the fishermen of Galilee