The quarterly mass-meeting of the Christian Endeavor Union of Richmond will be held tonight at the Seventh Street Christian Church. Among the matters of business considered will be the contest with the union in Roanoke and the program for the coming year's work in Richmond. Reports will be made by the separate societies. J. S. Haw is president of the union.

Before the Storm.
A bush expectant falls over Freedom's land
Dike that before the summer tempest breaks!
The air is tense; not yet the swift
Holds
Its flight from out the bannered clouds
That stand
Portentous massed across the sky with
Strand
Of dusk that twilight of the gods
Now makes
For yet the Spirit of the Storm
Awakes
And bids the thunder roll its stern
Command
To all the downland hosts and sound
The charge!
When swift the marshaled squadrons
Of the sky
Shall sweep over plains and over the
mountains high
Nor stay their might at oceans' far
Thest marge.
Then winds of heaven loosed will drive
Amain
The cohorts of the clouds, surcharged
With rain!
H. T. Sudduth, In New York Times. 