The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-12

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There IS too much disposition On HE part
ut the sscuIo, mess io snccr at RrrtLprI
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Ilol!oWlnG, winch are mol O. unirequent occur,
renee N the Tabernacle at Boston, certainly
sro,ost any,i,or hn,rihnIdry &monr ,he
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well hloWA pol'lical orator, ana man popu-
lar 10 all the social circles of Boston Il few
dave o, i,o -,y, 81 noi,,,c testimony, hafora
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Whatever can do IN speaking VIII be by
telling my story Us briefly and as plainly as
can. J never doubted The existence OF GOD.
Since came to observe things, the rising and
setting sun, AID the sea and the sky and all
the marvels Of the seasons, have been proof to
me that there must be supreme Being that
was the cause OF all life and The source OF all
truth, but as for any dependence upon that
Being, any communion with Him, and trust
ing Him, was as absolutely indifferent as @
savage or a pagan. But while living in this
world many years and living like the world,
my father ard my mother and my wite and
! my sisters and many friends were pouring
their prayers into heaven and pleading here
for me, and their prayers were heard and
became intellectually convinced that there
was nothing to a human beng OF such con
Germ 10 him as Tie welfare of LIS own soul.
! | knew well enough that ! had had evil and
good put before me, aud that had delibcr
ately chosen the evil, and that there stood
against me Z sum ufsin. There It stood; the
tact could not be denied; 30 shoddy meta.
| physics, no fancy logic, no trick OF reason
could delude me with the idea that ! could
fp r,ri Two, in | ,Tcc ~
that, and anxously looked INTO the Bible
for help, and found thu, if that book didn't
understand anything else in the world It IN,
dcrs,Ood the nature and The condition and the
wants of my soul with au uncrrlng accuracy
| | saw ! wanted a new nature if any man dld
and found that and all other men could
accept the plan Of salvation provided by the
wisdom and love of God, and obtain new
! heart, and live in Him and for him, or and
! all other men could reject that plan, and We
could have our old natures and live without
! Him here and hereafter. | chose deliberate.
Ily 70 give myself up to that SAVER, who by
! the passion Of the cross had given Himself TO
death for me. | chose, | say, TO do this, but
| | determined az first TO do 1t al alone by my.
| self very quietly IN the silence of NY own
chant Der, with no one but Almighty God as
nv cOntidant. One Sunday evening altOgeth-
er beyond any arrangement of mine, without
the slightest intention OF so doing, and now
i, seems to me. guided by the hand Of the
power above me- was led into the taberna
Gle. I don't know how Mr.. Moody knew
was there, but lie did Inever spoke to him
| in NV lite till this noon, and vet he evidently
got up that sermon expressly for me, because
every sentence ofitlike rifle shot.wenttomy
heart; il was that sermon upon the Precious
IWnl." and the main scene was. "Whosoever
will confess Ne before men, him will | con.
| fess before NV father in heaven" An. those
words, "Contess before men," rang in nv
ears: they seemed like r bolt coming from
! the skies with the light of the throne uDon
| mem. and did confess before men.
told nv story with the weakest knees I
ever had in nv fife, but there came TO me that
consciousness which IS the only test Of spirit
! nal knowlrdge. that ptrdon and helm from
| God had come TO me: and | stand here these
few minuIes in the center of this civ rs one
l,rthe later WITNESSES and nv testimOny. Nkc
all the martyrs and MI the believers ina, in
,nn,r and nravcr have told of the unsneakablr
! ynrih of salvation, is bnt one more witness
There are men mere. many of them. that Know
lac, They know what saw now 10 be true