168 THE KING’S BUSINESS Great Revivals and Great Evangelists Harry Moorhouse—Concluded By J. H. HUNTER
ing, as I saw and felt that be did, in the name of his Lord and Master, and mine, I dared not claim the as surance of my acceptance, or even the honor of my Saviour’s name. ‘No,’ I replied at last, ‘if I must answer your question now and here, I cannot say that I am what, you call a Chris tian, but by God’s grace, I will never say that again.’ “The victory was won for him and for me, or rather for our gracious Lord, who knew just my condition and just the shock that I needed to shake me out of my constitutional reserve, and so sent this ignorant, yet faithful messenger of His to my house to break the fetter's that had held for years my tongue from a public con fession of His name...........You may remember how I spent many hours with him over Murray’s grammar, etai, that he might correct (which he did to a large extent) the gram matical and other errors which, for lack of education, at first marred somewhat the public delivery of. his wonderful Gospel messages.” VISITS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY During his visit to this country in 1874, Mr. Moorhouse was invited by Mr. Frost of Princeton to be his guest. The Second Presbyterian church (Dr. M’Corkle’s) was opened to him and here he preached in the evenings to an audience that crowded the building, many professors and students from both college and semi nary. were present. After his open ing sermon on “The Blood,” Drs. McCosh, Hodge, and others entered heartily into the movement by their
“T SAW his sincerity, and could X not rebuke him, keenly as I felt my position, though there was no other man living that had ever spoken to me in that way, ‘as one having authority.’ So I tried expos tulation. I told him that if after sup per, he wanted to talk to me on these sacred matters, I would go up with him to a private room and he might ask me any question he' wanted to. ‘See,’ I said, as a servant entered the adjoining room with a tray, ‘the meal is all prepared, let us sit down to gether and enjoy it, and there will be plenty of time afterward for our con versation before meeting.’ ‘No, Mr. Kimber,’ came the equally firm but tender response, ‘I don’t want any supper till you answer my question; the Lord told me on entering this house to ask if the master of it was a Christian, and I cannot come in tin you answer me.’ I was fairly cor nered at my own threshold. I had for several years sought earnestly to serve the Lord, and had given, thou sands of dollars to His cause; had mainly built that church on my own ground and, with William Hillis, had, at a large pecuniary cost, imported the Dublin and other tracts by the box, and sent them out over the land; had devoted large sums and much time to the society for the education of the colored people of our state, of which organization I was the presi dent; had gathered my family daily and read the Holy Scriptures with them, and waited silently on .the Lord for a blessing, as I had been brought up to do: and yet, face to face with this awkward young stranger, com
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