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free, only another death-hold removed. Finally, as I was- suffering physically and mentally, God sent a neighbor, a godly wo man, who told me that if I did not leave home .1 would die, and she knew a rest home where people could go and be prayed for -and’refreshened in Spirit. I went, and God was present there in mighty power. I feasted at the King’s table, and listened to the instruction of the servants of God who had charge of the home, and as the Word was unfolded to me, and I beheld, for the first time, God’s wonderful plan of salva tion, and how He was working it out, I would go to my room and fall on my face and praise Him for-His wonderful works to the children of men. STEVENS “On the Monday at the warehouse he -asked a fellow employee about tlie Exhibi tion meetings, and he was told about Mr. Geil, a remarkable American. Deciding to go that night, Dr, Torrey was. the preacher ; everything he said gripped, and when the address was over ‘for’ or ‘against’ stood out in living characters. In his careless days he prayed to God, and now \a prayer went up from his heart just where he was sitting, that if God would send Dr. Torrey to speak to him he would be ‘for.’ Sure enough, God answered his prayer and you spoke to him, with the result that the great transaction was once and forever done. “For zeal and earnestness and whole hearted devotion from that day to his last, I do not think many could surpass him. Like the grand Apostle of the Gentiles, he never looked back, and being blessed with a whole-hearted wife, loyal to the Christ and a soul-winner, and having no family, it was indeed a wonderful privilege to behold, for those who had eyes to see, how truthfully and how humbly he claimed the exceeding grace and precious promises, and although he would fain have remained a little longer for the sake of his wife, his clear testi mony was that he desired to glorify God whether in death or life.”
tinued Satan, “you will admit that so long as the members'of' ouri church do not believe in the deity of Christ and.the blood atonement for sin, they may believe and practice everything else in the Bible and still belong to us. My church is called the Church of Christ (Scientist),” said Sathn. The facj; that I now knew the difference between, Christian Science and the true re ligion did not set me free, it only removed one of the grave-wrappings which had held me in a death grip. God sent two of His servants, both missionaries, to my home to pray. for .me, and as we knelt, one on. either side of me, they poured out their hearts to God for me with such earnestness and fer vor as one seldom hears. Still I was not Tj'ROM Australia, the following letter was written to Dr. Torrey by H. J. Stevens of Melbourne, haying been received on Au gust 21, 1913. It was mislaid and has just come to light after two years. It is a strik ing illustration of the power of the Gospel, as a result of the meetings that Dr. Torrey was conducting in the great Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, in 1902, and is here reproduced: ' “At S a. m., on Thursday, July 10, George Hall, a sinner saved by grace, entered into his rest. At the time of the simultaneous mission, he was a fast living man, his weak ness being the face-course. He was then about 38 years of age; a salesman in a lead ing warehouse in Flinder’s Lane. His wife, who had been a pleasure-loving little wo man, but recently converted prior to his great change, had taken him to a tent meet ing. To use his own words, ‘it was no good to me.’ The following Saturday found him on the race-course, and his luck was in. He had five wins in backing horses, and as a brother of his had been losing all day, he offered him a half-sovereign to back the winner in the last race, assuring him or try ing to assure him, that he would make up for all his losses. The brother refused and told him he was mad; yet sure enough he struck the winner.
THE GOSPEL’S POWER By H. J:
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