119 The Revelation of Jesus Ch~ist accepting Christ as his Savior. The darkness is never so dark as when you have been in the light for a time, and then· go out into the dark. Do not steel your heart against God, my friend. If you do, He will withdraw His light from you. And let me add this: The man who has no religion at all, stands a better chance of coming to the place of repentance than the man who hears the true gospel. rejects it, and then falls a prey to some of the false doctrines and abominable cults which are flooding the land. The following incident will illustrate what I mean. Sometime ago I was pastor of a church in Chicago. One day a little woman who was one of my members, came up to me and said: "Mr. Talbot, I should like for you to come up and talk with me in my home. I want you to come and have a meal with me; but you had better come at noon, instead of in the evening, because my husband will not have preacher-s there at all." I looked at that little woman as she stood there. She was a pitiful, thin, anemic-looking being, colorless and wan. I went to her home, and she told me her story-how every month, when her husband got his pay-check, she had to go to the place where he worked and see that he got home with it. If she did not do that, he would take his money and drink until he was so drunk he hardly k_new where he lived. Well, one day that man was persuaded to go to church, and he heard the Gospel preached. After the meeting, he said to me: "Mr. Talbot, I have a different slant on preachers. They are not as bad as I thought they were. I know what I ought to do, but do not press this thing about Christ and my need. Do not press it." I pressed it as far as I could, but he would not be moved. -I left Chicago, to take a church in Texas. Years afterwards, I returned to Chicago. While having lunch in a restaurant, I saw a man sitting at another table not very far away, who kept looking every once in a while in my direction. Finally he came over and said, "You are Mr. Talbot, aren't you?" "Yes/' I replied.
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