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I statements. He gave his own personal testimony of his salvation in England, resulting in his being separated from his family. Feinberg left this meet- converting to Christianity; separating from his family. Both the traditional ties and the love and af- fection he had from his parents had a strong hold on him. As he _agonized over the matter, he prayed, "O God, if Jesus is the Messiah, if he is the sacrifice for sin, if he is my Saviour, as the missionary has indicated, if you will give me this conviction, I will believe on Him now." God gave him the conviction, he believed, and God saved him. Thus began one of the most dedicated Christian lives in the history of Christianity. After his conversion things began to happen fast. Within two weeks Fein- berg was on his way to Florida to look into teaching Hebrew in a Christian ...... Seminary. Feeling a need for additional training in the field of Bible and Theology, he turned down the offer; and being advised by the head of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, in New York, he contacted Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, founder of the Evangelical College, in Dallas, Texas, later the Dallas Theological Seminary. In the spring of 1931, he enrolled there. His home was closed to him when he became a Christian; he was a "spiritua vagabond," with no place to call home; he worked for the Seminary through the summer of 1931. Within three years, in the spring of 1934, he completed the requirements for both the Th. B. and for the Th. M. degree. He also met the resident requirements for the Th. D. degree, which was so unusual within three years that the Seminary officials agreed if he would complete one more year in residency he would be granted the Th. D. degree; therefore, he was graduated in 1935. His busy life of study and teaching afforded Charles Feinberg little time for romance; but in 1932, between his first two years of Seminary, while enroute to Detroit to work with the American Board of Missions to the Jews, . he made a brief stop in Chicago, to visit the Penial Mission, a Jewish
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