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Uncontainable Blessing! I could flot hold it; it had to come out. I began testifying in the open air, at cottage prayer-meetings and in the villages near our town. Every prayer-meeting that was held I was there ; and I began to speak on trains and trol leys.” He spent 'h year in Belfast as a clerk in a railroad office, and continued his efforts to win men to Christ. He then entered the Glasgow Bible Institute. After preparing himself here as well as he was able for the blessed work befpre him he entered upon evangelistic efforts under the auspices of the Lanarkshire, -Scotland, .Christian Union ; and he also labored in London. It was while he was in London, holding meetings, that he met the genial singer and conse crated evangelistic Worker, Charles M. Alexander, by whom he was induced to come to America, where he conducted meet ings in several large centers. Subsequently he went' with Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman and Charles M. Alexander to Australia, and rendered invaluable service in that memor able campaign. He and Mr. J. Raymond Hemminger, his musical colleague, re mained in Australia for some time after Dr. Chapman and his party left, and1met with remarkable success wherever they went. From that time to the present God has abundantly blessed the efforts of these two devoted men and has used them mightily in the salvation of souls. For a year, Mr. Nicholson was pastor of St. George’s Tabernacle Church, the largest congregation in Scotland. He has little sympathy with the popular sentiment which prompted the-lines: “Let me live in a house by the aide of the road, and be the friend of man;” for his is the type of Christianity which will not permit him to wait for men to come to him for help but which impels him to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” “proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.” More and more he is successfully striving to “show himself approved unto God, a workman that need- eth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing thé
created conditions which finally resulted in his conversion. About this time his friend and shipmate was ill with typhoid fever, and after recovering was ordered home. He prevailed upon young Nicholson to accompany him. What a royal welcome the wanderer received from the loved ones at home! This welcome, with no word of condemnation for the past, made so deep an impression upon him that his convic tion of sin deepened. DECIDES FOR CHRIST Two weeks after his arrival at his home in Ireland, while .awaiting breakfast one Monday morning, he decided for Christ. He immediately sent a telegram to his brother, then a student in Edinburgh Uni versity,1“Have decided, but am in dense darkness.” He was most fortunate in not being satisfied with his spiritual condition. He felt convinced that full salvation held far more for him than what he was then experiencing. He says of himself at this crisis in his life: “I blundered on in my half-saved condition for seven months.” But God always has His agencies ready to accom plish His will. Providentially at this -time there came to the town an Episcopal clergy man, Rev. J. Stuart Holden, of London, to hold meetings for the deepening of the spiritual life of those who might come under his influence. Young Nicholson attended these meetings. We will let him tell this’part of his interesting story: . “I saw that I was trying to live a super natural life by natural strength and energy. I saw that the Spirit who begat life in me could alone deepen and develop it. Not only must I be born of the Spirit but be baptized Tpith the Spirit. Glory to God, I shall never forget the night I received that blessed fullness! I left the meeting and walked alone by the seashore. Oh, my heart was heavy and hungry! I did so thirst for this fullness! I was enabled, there and then, to see that I could not only have life but have it more abundantly. I yielded, and then the divine fullness of blessing flooded my soul. It was the
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