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mingled voices in the chorus. A room in the building had been hired for
religious meetings, and tonight was the first of the series. A strange
coolness dampened the merriment in the club-room, as the singing went
on, and the gradual silence became a hush, till finally one member threw
down his cards and declared, "If what they're saying is right, then
we're wrong."

Others followed his example, then another, and another.

There is a brother whom some one should save.

Quietly the revellers left their cards, cigars and half-emptied glasses
and went home.

Said the ex-member who told the story years after to Mr. Ufford, "'Throw
Out the Life-line' broke up that club."

He is today one of the responsible editors of a great city daily--and
his old club-mates are all holding positions of trust.

A Christian man, a prosperous manufacturer in a city of Eastern
Massachusetts, dates his first religious impressions from hearing this
hymn when sung in public for the first time, twenty years ago.

Visiting California recently, Mr. Ufford sang his hymn at a
watch-meeting and told the story of the loss of the Elsie Smith on Cape
Cod in 1902, exhibiting also the very life-line that had saved sixteen
lives from the wreck. By chance one of those sixteen was in the
audience.

An English clergyman who was on duty at Gibraltar when an emigrant ship
went on the rocks in a storm, tells with what pathetic power and effect
"Throw out the Life-line" was sung at a special Sunday service for the
survivors.

At one of Evan Roberts' meetings in Laughor, Wales, one speaker related
the story of a "vision," when in his room alone, and a Voice that bade
him pray, and when he knelt but could not pray, commanded him to "Throw
out the Life-line." He had scarcely uttered these words in his story
when the whole great congregation sprang to its feet and shouted the
hymn together like the sound of many waters.

"There is more electricity in that song than in any other I ever heard,"
Dr. Cuyler said to Mr. Sankey when he heard him sing it. Its electricity
has carried it nearly round the world.

The Rev. Edward Smith Ufford was born in Newark, N.J., 1851, and
educated at Stratford Academy (Ct.) and Bates Theological Seminary, Me.
He held several pastorates in Maine and Massachusetts, but a preference
for evangelistic work led him to employ his talent for object-teaching
in illustrated religious lectures through his own and foreign lands,
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