In his early days, when he was known by the epithet of " Undaunted Dick," a miner knelt in prayer. He was to have fought with a man that day, but he met with a more terrible adversary. His body trembled from head to foot whilst the struggle lasted between the power of darkness and the power of light. In desperate fear of hell, the golden text of the Gospel, John 3. 16, crossed his mind.
" Well," he said, " if ' God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,' that surely means me." There and then Richard Weaver passed from death unto life.