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est State the Gospel raised him with a rapidity that no civilization ever knew to a noble Christian manhood. - His first impulse was to tell others. He helped translate the Bible into the Karen tongue; for fifteen years guided the missionaries through the jungles and then himself began to preach, and to plant new churches. In one year he had formed nine, with 741 con verts; in less than three years the nine had grown to thirty, with 2,000 converts. He did his work without salary, and when the English gov ernment offered him a position with large compensation he at once de clined, though his poverty was such as prevented him from taking his lovely wife with him in his mission ary tours! This one man, whom no bait of money or position or personal ease could win to leave his holy and unselfish work, is an unanswerable proof that a power higher than man works in Christianity. w h o l e s a l e REFORM. One example now from a commun ity transformed by this divine gospel! Johnson went to Sierra Leone in 1816, to find a thousand people res cued from slaveships, representing more than twenty nations, unable to hold converse, but preying upon each other like wild beasts, given to worst vices, brutal and devilish. He preached the simple gospel to them,
devoutly praying for their salvation. In less than a year, the woods were echoing with the prayers of penitence and the hills ringing with hymns of faith. Honest industries took the place of thievery; they built a stone house and filled it with a. crowd of worshippers, and surrounded it by all signs of an orderly, thriving Chris tian state! Marriage sanctified their homes, a thousand children crowded their schools,, heathen revels gave place to Christian rites; and all this Mr. Johnson himself lived to see, though he died seven years after he landed. My dear friends, taste and see that the Lord is good. Ask Him in the closet for a sign by which you shall know that He is, and is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Put Him to the test of experimental pray er and you shall need no testimony from another to establish your faith in the supernatural answers to pray er. The Angel of the Lord shall encamp about you—in the furnace of fiery trial you shall see the form of Jesus—-in the midst of temptations as fierce as lions, you shall serenely rest unharmed. His providence.will guide your doubting steps like that glorious Pillar of Cloud and Fire, and in that last great crisis when heart and flesh fail, and the valley and shadow of death is before you, the everlasting Arms shall be beneath you, and your refuge the Eternal God!
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