THE KING’S BUSINESS
767 My wife saw me going to fall, and let my head fall in her lap; I lay there for two hours. I was not sensible, but they told me I was crying for mercy. When I awoke I was surrounded by kind friends, who were praying for me; but the one that prayed loudest and longest was a boy, fourteen years of age, named John Hall. He had found the Lord himself, and he was cry ing, ‘Lord, reveal Thyself to Mr. Halt- ridge!’ My son took the one arm, and a kind friend the other, and helped me home. I was not able to walk; my feet refused to carry me. On reaching home I was laid upon that •sofa on which, a month before, my son was laid. My son kept family worship in the house. God opened my mouth that night to pray. I got peace from that text, ‘Arise, and go thy way: thy sins, which are many, are forgiven thee; go, and sin no more.’ I now felt such love to my fellow- men, that I thought I could stand on a mountain-top and take the whole world in my arms. And as Christ told His disciples to begin preaching at Jerusalem, I was called upon to speak at meetings held in that place which has been the scene of my former life.”
I heard his cries. For twenty-four hours no one could tell whether he was dead or alive; but when God revealed Himself to him, the first thing he said was, ‘God be merciful to my wicked father!’ I heard all this. My daughter attended meetings that were held in the school-house. She was ‘Stricken’ down, and cried to God for mercy. The prayers of my Christian wife were now answered. She was a Christian from her youth up. I have seen her often at the bedside praying. I have taken the pillow and thrown it at her, at the same time lifting up my arm and defying God to do His worst. On Sabbath morning I was to go away to spend the Lord’s day in the same manner as before, but my wife came to the door and said, ‘You will not go out today.’ I drew back, and was for making my way out, but she and my daughter laid hold upon me, and drew me into the parlor, and reasoned with me until I promised to go to church. I went to the house of God. A hymn was given out to be sung. It was the same hymn that was blessed to the conversion of an actress. When I came to the second line, God laid His hand upon me; my book was trembling in my hands.
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