The Lord's Prayer

The following is told of Mr. Booth, the American tragedian : Booth and several friends had been invited to dine with an old gentleman n Balthnore, of distingnished klndness, urbanily and piety. The host, though disapproving of theatres and theafre going, liad henrd so nrach of Booth's rernarkable powers that euriosily to see the man liad, in tliia instsnce, overeóme all hia scruples. After dinnerwas over, lanips lighted, and the company reseated in the drawing room, someone requested Booth as a particular favor, and one which all present would, doubtless, a])preciáte, to read aloud the "Lörd's Prayer." Booth eipressed his ready wUlingness to afford them this graüfication, all eyes were turned expectantly upon him. Booth rose slowly and reveiently from his chair. Tt was wonderful to watcb the'play of emotion 1 1 1 at. convulsed his countenance. He became deathly pale, and his eyes, turned tremblinglv upwards, were wet with tears. As yet he had iiot spoken. The silence could be feit. It;became absolntely painfifl, until at last the spell was broken as il" by an electric shock, as tlierich-toned vojce from white lips, sylhibled fortli, "Our Father who art in heaven," etc., with a pathos and l'ervid solemnity that thrilled all hearts. He finisbed. The silence continued. Kot a voice was heard nor a mustie moved n his astonished audience, nntil from the corner of the room a subduecl sob was heard, and the old gentleman (their host) stejjped forth witli streaming eyes and tottering frame, and;'seizingBooth by the hand, - "Sir," said lie, in broken accents, "You havo afforded me a pleasure for which my whole future life wil! fcel grateful. I an an old man, and every day from boyhood to the present time, I thought I had repeated the Lord's'Praver ; bul 1 liever heard it befove - never!"-