A sailor gave the following wonderful testimony in a Mission Hall in Glamorgan a short time ago: He said he was a three-year-old child of God. He had been acquainted with all kinds of sin and vice. His appetite for drink and gambling was so much that he would do anything to satisfy this craving. However, a little over three years ago he was called to his father’s, death-bed, and his father said, “My boy, I am going home’; to the Lord, but what will I tell your mother when I reach there? You promised her that you would give yourself to the Lord. You have not done so, my boy. What shall I do?” The old man prayed so fervently that no one could stand the scene. The son, who was then forty-seven, ran out of the room and flung himself on the couch in another room, and prayed that the Lord would save him just then. He asked the Lord to grant him another petition, viz., that his father should live another six months, so that he could bear the fine news of his conversion to his mother, who had reached the heavenly home. There were two doctors and a specialist in the house, and in the room with the patient at the time the very ground seemed too sacred for them to stand on it, and the patient seemed to perplex them. They had previously given him up, and said that he had
But Very Few Hours to Live
But there was a change in the man which they did not understand. “And do you know,” said Mr. J―, who was giving his testimony, “God granted my father to get about again for six months—yea, for seven months; and when out one day in the street for his usual walk, he suddenly dropped dead. Oh, the grip that answered prayer has had on me, and is still having. Thank God,” he said, “He saved me, and He keeps me.” After my conversion I had to face my old company, but I was determined to do it straight for the Lord. Then I asked Him to help me to do it honorably. I went right into their midst and said, ‘Boys, I am a different man now. I have been converted. The Lord has saved me, and I want you now to help me live an upright, honest life by not tempting me with the gambling and drink. Help me, boys!’ and I cried bitterly. There was not a dry eye in the place, and they all with one accord said, Yes, brother, we will do as you say!’ ‘Thank you,’ I said, ‘for I want to live a real Christian life among you here, and if I can do it here, then I can anywhere.’” It was really good and refreshing to listen to this heartfelt testimony, so simple and so real. May this “sinner saved by grace” be greatly used of God to prove the efficacy of prayer, the saving power of grace, and all to the glory of God. ―
Rev. E. Wern Williams