Activity Report 123

Aahb Aloney

Description

• neighborhood stakeholder workshop
• improved child health
• stakeholder meetings
• ehp project
• health survey egat usaid bureau
• environmental development edhs
• urban studies
• child health
• health
• development

Sujets

• Al Minya
• Egypt
• Health
• Survey
• Project

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• Publié par: zeyk
• Nombre de lectures: 34
• Langue: English

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In The
TWINKLING
OF AN EY E
Sydne y Watson
Digital Version 1.00
by www.arfalpha.com
Created April 2005
Copyright (Expired), 1921, by Bible Institute of Los Angeles
Printed in the United States of America
AUTHOR'S FOREWORD
SOME years ago I received from an important Southern town, a letter from a Ladies'
Temperance Committee, to this effect: “Sir, We the undersigned, are a committee of Ladies,
who, for many years, have purchased your “Stories for the People” in very large numbers, for
free distribution and loan; always assuming that you were to be thoroughly relied upon as an
upholder of strict Total-abstinence principles. But your latest story has sadly undeceived us, as
regards your usefulness as a worker in the great cause we are pledged to uphold and further.
On pp-- of your last story, you make your hero, returning from a day's run with the hounds,
come upon a woman lying in a lonely place, who has been injured in a trap accident. You say,
speaking of your hero's prompt help to the woman, that “taking his hunting flask from his
pocket, he forced a few drops of the brandy between the woman's lips, etc.” Now, sir, we
contend that had you had the cause of Total-abstinence fully at heart, you would have made
that huntsman's flask to have contained water.”
So much for the letter. The moral of it lies on the surface. There are some persons who seem
unable to see anything from the side of real, actual life-that Ladies' committee could not-whose
vision is narrowed down to the tiny slit of their own cramped, cabined life and thought, they
have no true outlook upon life, as a whole.
I preface this foreward with the above incident, because I am perfectly certain that the
standpoint from which I have written this book will be utterly, absolutely misunderstood by
many earnest loving-hearted people, whose eyes, with my own, have caught the upward gaze
“from whence we look for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ”
I would at once acknowledge that the inceptive idea of writingAUTHOR'S FOREWORD.
such a book as this was born within me from reading “Long Odds,” that wondrous little
half-penny booklet written by the late General Robertson, I believe, a booklet that has been so
marvellously “owned and blessed.”
For five or six years the idea for this present volume has been simmering and seething in my
mind. The first and only real problem I had to face in the matter was that of the principle
involved in using the fictional form to clothe so sacred a subject (for, to me, the near Return
of our Lord is the most sacred of all subjects.) But the problem of the principle was speedily
settled, as I remembered how wondrously God had owned and blessed “Long Odds,” in
which the fictional is the vehicle of the teaching.
Then, too, there are, I know, myriads of people into whose hands “Long Odds,” could never,
by any chance, fall-for there are multitudes who will not so much as glance at, or touch a tract,
while a volume will easily win its way among all classes. There is an enormous percentage of
attendants at our churches and chapels, and many otherwise very earnest Christian workers, to
whom the whole subject of the Lord's Second Coming is an absolutely unknown realm of
Truth-and these I would fain reach and arouse with the message of this book.
To those Christians who are looking for the Return of the Lord, to whom the subject is the
most tenderly sacred of all subjects, who will at first sight condemn the use of the fictional
element, the dramatic colour in this book-and many good people will, I am assured-I would
say, first, that the book is not written for them, and second, that, our Lord Himself, speaking
of His own Return, used two very remarkable illustrations from life's strangest dramas. First,
“As it was in the days of Noah, even so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They
ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until THE DAY, etc.” Now,
think what a myriad dramas were being enacted when the flood came. And had the disciples
asked their Lord, privately, after His utterance, to explain more fully what He meant, what
thrilling stories He could, He doubtless would have sketched. If any Christian cavils at the
dramatic in this book, I would refer him or her to Christ's own pointing inAUTHOR'S FOREWORD.
the picture of Noah's time, then bid them fill out, by help of the feeblest, simplest imagination,
the picture of the myriad dramas that were being enacted when that flood came, of old time.
Then, if the objector is honest, and is capable of the least imagination, he will say “I see! and,
now that I see this fact, my wonder is not that there is a certain dramatic freedom in this book,
but that the writer has kept so powerful a restraint upon his pen.”
Again, Christ said: “As it was in the days of LOT,” etc. Now think over this saying of our
Lord's, and remembering what is actually recorded in Genesis, of the vice and crime of
Sodom, (and how, alas ! even when saved from the doomed city, Lot and his daughters
brought away much of the vicious, criminal essence of the place with them,) think how the
Return of our Lord, presently, will mean the snatching away of many of His own out of scenes
infinitely more awful than anything I have used herein, or ever hinted at. A book written on the
subject here chosen, and written in the vein our Lord Himself suggests in the two passages
referred to above, could not have been written in any other way-to be true to life, and to the
subject.
Should any reader object to the expository lectures of Major H-, as the chief vehicle for the
doctrinal teaching, I would say that personal experience has proved the style to be infinitely
more acceptable to readers than that of the dialogue mode.
I have purposely placed special emphasis on the Jewish side of the subject, since the Jewish
question is infinitely more closely enwrapped with the fact of our Lord's near return, than
many speakers and writers give prominence to.
SYDNEY WATSON.
“THE FIRE,” VERNHAM DEAN, HUNGERFORD, BERKS. CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. TAKEN AT THE FLOOD .... 11
II. “THE COURIER” .... .... 20
III. FLOTSAM .... ... 26
IV. “I ONLY REAPED WHAT I SOWED” 33
V. “LILY WORK” .... .... 38
VI. AN INTERESTING TALK ---- .... 44
VII. “COMING” .... .... .... .... 55
VIII. REVERIE .... .... .... 64
IX. A THREAT .... .... .... .... 75
X. IN THE NICK OF TIME .... .... 82
“ XI. LONG ODDS” . ... .... ... 91
XII. THE CENTER OF THE EARTH .... 101
XIII. A DEMON .... .. .... 110
XIV. MAJOR H- ON “THE COMING!” 118
XV. THE ADDRESS .... .... 124
XVI HER CABIN COMPANION .... 136
XVII. CASTING A SHOE .... 142
XVIII. TOLD IN A CAB .... 154
XIX. Tom HAMMOND REVIEWINGING 164
XIXA. “MY MENTOR” 176
XX. THE PLACARD .... .... 185
XXI. WAS HE MAD .... 189
XXII. FROM THE PROPHET'S CHAMBER 195
XXIII. PASSOVER I .. 200
“ XXIV. THIS SAYING SHALL COME TO PASS! “ 209
XXV. FOILED ! .... .... .... .... 218
XXVI. A CASTAWAY .... .... .... 221
XXVII. A STRICKEN CITY .... .... 226
XXVIII. “HALLELUJAH LASS” .... 232
XXIX. IN ST. PAUL'S .... .... 238
XXX. CONCLUSION .... .... .... 246CHAPTER I.
TAKEN AT THE FLOOD.
THE man walked aimlessly amid the thronging press. He was moody and stern. His eyes
showed his disappointment and perplexity. At times, about his mouth there lurked an almost
savage expression. As a rule he stood and walked erect.
Only the day before this incident one of a knot of flower-girls in Drury Lane had drawn the
attention of her companions to him as he strode briskly along the pavement, and in a rollicking
spirit had sung, as he passed her:
“Stiff, starch, straight as a larch, Every inch a soldier;
Fond o' his country, fond o' his queen, An' hawfully fond o' me.”
But to-day there is nothing of the soldier in the pose or gait of Tom Hammond.
Yet the time and place ought to have held his attention sufficiently to have kept him alert to
outward appearance. It was eleven in the forenoon. The place was Piccadilly.
He came abreast of Swan and Edgar's. The pavement was thronged with women on shopping
bent. More than one of them shot an admiring glance at him,12 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE
for he had the face, the head, of a king among men. But he had no eyes for these chance
admirers.
Tom Hammond was thirty years of age, a journalist, and an exceptionally clever one, at the time we
make his acquaintance. He was a keen, shrewd man, was gifted with a foresight and general
prescience that were almost remarkable, and hence was commonly regarded by his journalistic
friends as “a coming man.” He had strongly-fixed ideas of what a great daily paper should be, but
never having seen any attempt that came within leagues of his ideal, he longed-lusted would not be
too strong a term-for the time and opportunity when, with practically unlimited capital behind him,
and with a perfectly free hand to use it, he could issue his ideal journal.
This morning he seems farther from the goal of his hopes than ever. For two years he had been
sub-editor of a London daily that had made for itself a great name of a sort. There were certain
reasons which had prompted him to hope, to expect, the actual editorship before long. But now his
house of cards had suddenl