Slide set: For the master's sake (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 38 slides, 1893)

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Slide 1**

He wore a white hat, around which was a deep piece of blackest cloth

Slide 2

Opposite this shop the stranger paused for several minutes

Slide 3

The old woman showed him upstairs to see her rooms

Slide 4

Lil asked her grandmother no end of questions about him

Slide 5

Her lodger came in and stood before her. She was talking to herself as usual

Slide 6

Nancy started and exclaimed: 'O, my poor old heart alive!'

Slide 7

'I am come here to try do a little work for Him' said he

Slide 8

The children looked up for his smile, and their mother's for a friendly nod

Slide 9

The public-houses were thronged on week days and on Sundays

Slide 10

Little Lil had gone up into the lodger's room and her heart was opening like a tender bud

Slide 11

Just at the right moment the man with the white hat appeared upon the scene

Slide 12

'Where do you live, my friend, and what is your name?' he asked

Slide 13

His first congregation consisted of three adults and half-a-dozen children

Slide 14

'That's right,' said the woman, 'Thee play and I'll dance, we'll liven them up a bit'

Slide 15

The preacher spoke a few earnest words to those who were listening

Slide 16

When he got home, he found Nancy and Lil down on their knees by the fireside

Slide 17

'Did you hear what I said, Granny?' enquired the child

Slide 18

'Ah, Nancy,' began Jane, 'If 'tis true what that blessed man said on Sunday'

Slide 19

The two poor women eagerly drank in the words as Lil sang the hymn

Slide 20

'Why , Nancy, whatever can be the matter?' he enquired

Slide 21

Slide 22

The room and the yard adjoining were soon crowded with the weary, the painful and the sad

Slide 23

Down the whole company went on their knees

Slide 24

Before the chorus had been reached, Dick's fiddle was in readiness

Slide 25

The little group passed on with joy beaming in their faces

Slide 26

The fiddler played and sang, but Tom sat still, bewildered, and confused

Slide 27

Tom groaned, 'O God save me; O God, save me!'

Slide 28

He was astonished to find a prayer meeting going on in Nancy's room

Slide 29

He told them how he was brought to live amongst them

Slide 30

And Dick soon had his fiddle going to the tune of 'Home, Sweet Home'

Slide 31

'Now, friends,' said Dick, 'I have been a new man from the first time I came'

Slide 32

Great quiet prevailed, whilst Nancy gave her testimony

Slide 33

As soon as he began to speak of little Lil, the strong man wept aloud

Slide 34

The sitting-room of the man with the white hat was open to all

Slide 35

They listened with gladsome awe to the old woman as she spoke of the grace that had redeemed her

Slide 36

'Tell him I have prayed for him thousands o' times'

Slide 37

Dick fiddled, and they all sang, and the old woman shouted 'Glory! Glory!'

Slide 38

Whatever happens, dear friends, sing a song of victory when I am gone

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (7)

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 472

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 116

1906

Lantern slides, exhibitions and entertainments, lanterns, apparatus, etc. etc.: hire list, season 1906-7 (Newcastle upon Tyne: North of England Temperance League, 1906), 5

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 470

1909

Lantern slide catalogue (Glasgow: J. Lizars, 1909), 49

1910

A detailed catalogue of photographic lantern slides, life models &c. (Holmfirth: Bamforth & Co., 1910), 73-74

1913

Lantern and slide catalogue 1913-14 (London: Church Army, 1913), 157

“A story of undenominational Mission effort in a great city -- how some poor outcasts were gathered in and brought to know the Good Shepherd. Suitable for town audiences.”

Other reference

6 May 1893

[Stationer's Hall copyright register], COPY 1/412/259-263

Lucerna ID 3000882

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 10 May 2024

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Slide set: For the master's sake (service of song: Bamforth & Co., 38 slides, 1893)