T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S pen, m o t h e r ? ” LESSON “Well, my boy, you ILLUSTRATIONS! took it, got worse, a W. H. Pike physician was called but you died. Ac companied by many friends I was fol lowing the *bier outside the city gate when Jesus met us, stopped the proces sion, and said, ‘weep not,’ touched the bier, and said, ‘Young man, I say unto thee, arise.” . “Mother, I .heard that,” exclaimed the boy, “I know the rest.” (Lu. 7:14). Many who were dead in trespasses and sins have heard the voice of the Son of God and lived. At a meeting held in Sing Sing state prison, by Maude Ballington Booth, one pf the talks was made by Mrs. McAlpin, in which sfye said that she remembered distinctly when the little mother (Mrs. Booth) held her first meeting in the prison eight years before. In-that meet ing she called on all who would confess Christ to stand. About one hundred of the toughest and hardest of the crim inals stood up. A wave of great laugh ter swept through the room as they stood up, but, continued Mrs. McAlpin, one year later, when the same men stood up, not a black mark had been chalked against them in their ■ prison records. No Confession—No Hope. Mr. Moody used to tell of a man who was afraid to confess Christ, because of a business partner, whom he was afraid would ridicule him. The man fell sick and sent for Mr. Moody. He professed to accept Christ, but said he would wait until he got well and then go over in, Michigan and confess Christ. Just a week from that day his wife came ,to Mr. Moody and said, “My husband has had a relapse; won’t you come and talk with him?” “Did he send for me?” asked Mr. Moody. “No” she replied, “He does not want you to talk with him. But I can’t think of his dying this way.” Mr. Moody went with her,
1035 but the man said, “Don’t talk with me now, my show is gone. Last week I refused to publicly confess Christ.-That was my last chance.” As he sank lower under the power of the disease, he re peated, “The harvest is past, the sum mer is ended, and I am not saved.” Confessions of Jesus by Great Men. Charles Dickens, author, says in his will, “I commit my soul to the mercy of God, through our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear chil dren humbly to try to guide themselves by the teachings of the; New Testa ment.,", The Roman Centurion, at the Cruci fixion said,; “Truly this man was the Son of God.” Polycarp, a Christian father and martyr (6 9 -^ 5 A. D.) said,.,'j‘J3igbty- and six years have I served Him, and He has done nothing but good, and how could I curse Him, My Lord and Sav iour? If you would know what I am, I tell you frankly, I am a Christian,” “As the sun doth ,daily rise Brightening up the morning skies, So to Thee with one accord, Lift we up our hearts, O Lord,” —Alfred the Great, King of England. Benjamin Franklin, American States man, said, “As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom, you particularly desire, I think the system of morals, and His religion, as He left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see.” / Daniel Webster, American statesman and orator, said, “I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. The miracles which He wrought establish in my mind, his personal authority, and render it proper for me to believe whatever He asserts. I believe, therefore, all his declarations, as well when He declares Himself to be the Son of God, as when He declares any other proposition. And I believe there is no other way of salva-
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