With the Lord By T. C. HORTON
' “ Sad news from Africa. Cablegram says T om Hannay is dead from typhoid fever. W ill you notify his friends. It will be some weeks before we can get particulars from the field. May God com fort those who remain behind and gird us anew to press on in the battle.” T he above telegram reached us on Monday morning, February the ninth, and filled us with a miles on a buck-board, then take a train ride of one hundred miles and returning, reached his camp long after midnight. The deep-seated purpose- of his heart, to know the Word of God strange sorrow. Tom Hannay, as he was familiarly known all over Califor
and to serve Him, is illustrated in the sacrifice which he made each week in order to study the Bible. He was a thorough Bible stu dent and when pre sented with a Sco field Bible imme- d i a t e 1 y read it through, studying the. notes. When the Bible Institute want ed a man to labor among the hundreds o f men at work up on the aqueduct, he was selected. He made his headquar-
nia, was a unique figure, and was be loved by every one who knew him. The story of his Chris tian life has been written on the hearts o f hundreds of lives, and the memory of his devoted life will linger long in Chris tian circles upon the Coast. For nearly eight years he threw himself, into the ser vice of his Lord with unstinted devotion. He found the Lord at the Berkeley Christian Endeavor Convention, in a
JR- ters at Mojave, go ing out from there to points along the line for a distance of 100 miles. Many scores of men heard the Gospel from Tom’s lips. He had a man’s message; he never trimmed, but preached the gospel of the grace of God as few men ever preach it. Men bowed before the message. He knew men; he knew their lives; he had lived with them; he loved them and was true to them. To Tom, Heaven was real and so was Hell, and as he poured out his heart in his message many men found through him the Christ of God as Lord of their lives. At Mojave, where for some time he held services in the school house, he
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mission study class, conducted by the writer. The story of an old black woman, who had been a slave and who at the age o f sixty years learned to read and write and went out to Libe ria, Africa, to give thé Gospel to her people, touched his heart and led to a full surrender of his life to the Lord and he immediately began to witness a good confession of Christ. He was superintendent o f a gold mine above Banning, California, and when we opened our Bible-Class stud ies, he came once a week, taking the .studies on personal work and Old Testament books. In order to reach the class he had to ride ten or twelve
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