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filled with richly dressed people, all gave the lie to the corruptness within. The noise and stir of the city grad ually sank into semi-quietness, and then clearly was heard the noisy ringing of a bell. As they looked to see from what source the sound was coming, they observed a small, solemn procession moving along the street. There were white clad figures holding aloft several swaying images; men and women, with bowed heads and hats removed, remained in silence while it passed. It was the “host,” being taken to some dying soul. What comfort could come to such a one through the fluttering candle glare, the glitter of an image with tinsel coverings, the mournful tinkle of a bell, the mut- terings of a human being, even though robed in white? The young men were saddened, as indeed they had been many times, at the sight of the various processions and cele brations which had in them no part of worship to the true and living God. Over and above all, throughout the day and evening there were flocks of vultures, "gallinazos,” swarming over the city, just as the black crows of Bombay are forever in evidence. They are useful as scavengers, and so are not disturbed. They strut about everywhere; in the streets, among the vehicles, on the house tops, along the river banks, everywhere one hears their hoarse cries. They seemed a fitting type of the black, somber, depressing pall which lies over the whole land. In this city William Harmon and Randall Emmett stayed but a short time, as they were still under the strong con viction that they should go further into the interior. Then, too, they were thus impressed still more by an incident which occurred one day. An Indian of emaciated counten ance, and with a look of utter misery and suffering, lay in the streets, and Randall, ever looking for opportunities of getting in touch with the Indian people, and having already picked up a working knowledge of the Quechua language, endeavored to find out his trouble. The poor Indian was too sick to take any interest in con versing with the foreigner, and so, after a short time, Ran dall had him taken to his own room and there he and William jninistered to him. After a few days of proper care and treatment, their patient was able to tell them his whole long pitiful story. It appeared that he had been unlawfully deprived of all his worldly goods by a wealthy neighbor, and that nothing he could do would satisfy the rapacious man. He feared that even his life and that of his wife and children would be taken. They wandered off into the hills above their old home, and fearing starvation, finally sought shelter in a distant home of another Indian family. Leaving his family there, he had come to the far-off capital to seek redress,— he and a party of some twenty others. They were all thrown into prison, not even being allowed to pre sent their cause. For weeks and months they suffered there, and the day they had found him he had been cast out of prison to die. It was no unusual tale, as the young men both knew. An Indian could hope for no mercy, or even justice. It seemed not to be reckoned a crime to commit any outrage upon the Indians. The more cruel one was to these downtrodden people, the more clever his friends con sidered him. The Indian was nursed back to a semblance of health by the two friends; he was told the old, old Gospel story; he was made to see that worship to God did not consist of pro cessions, of adoration of images, of approaching Him through priests, but that they who worship God must wor ship Him in “spirit and in truth.” He heard and he believed, and that most wonderful of all miracles was
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