Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-03-29
SmOnp KsnDima.
SIR spurgeOn's Conversion.


that viii bring some one else TO Christ.
It pleased God in my childhood to
c nyiuce me If sin. / lived a miser-
able creature. finding DO hope, no
comfort, thinking that surely God
would never save me At last the
wo.st came TO the worst. I was
miserable; / could DO scarcely any
thing My hear. vas broker in pieces.
Six months did [ pras, prayed agon,
iziogly with all my heart, aed never
h d a. answer. resolved that, IN
the own VIII re live.i, | would
visit ey ry pltce Of worship in order
to fiad mt he gsy ot salvation. |
fell l vas wiling t. do anything aud
b, any hing if God would only for
Civ me. set Of, determined to 90
around 10 II the charels, an | went
to all the PAGES Of worship: and
though d al, yenera'e the men that
occupy tl,se p.lpils now, ana did
50 then, | am bound to say that |
never ord them once fully preach
the gos e'. mean by ihat--lhey
preached ruth, great ,ruh., many
90 i truths that were fitting to many
Of Their e.. regaiion-epiriiuallyo
min.el people: bat What wanted to
know was-lIow can I Get my sins
for ven. md icy lever 1nce told
N thai, [ wanted 10 h.aF how a
poor 81 nor, Under a sense Of sin,
might fad pc &c with God; md when
| we,' herd a mon GU "Be not
d ce.vc6, God /. not moca ed" which
cut me ey worse, but did not say how
l mn h e-,sp / W n again another
d =, and Tie 'cxt|as something about
the glories of the zig teous: nothing
FOX poor me. was something ike a
dog IL lie tie able. not allowed to
the chldscu's food went time
at er t'a.e, and I can hoa sly say
don't ta " hat I ever went without
p aver to God, aud am sure there
was not nor aicatiye hearcr in all
the pace than myself, for l prayed
and lined to uadelstand how l
might be saved. At last one snowy
dly-it sao, / 50 mach I could not
20 to ;be p &c I had determined to
90 10 and was obliged to stop CD
the ROAD, and it was a blessed stop TO
me- found rather IN obscure street,
and ,unel down q court, and there
VISA lite chapel. I wanted to 60
Somewhere, bgt l did not know this
place. It was the Primitive Methos
dis.s clanl had heard Of these
people from many, how they sang SO
Loudly that they made peoples head
ache: bat hat id not matter. /
wanted to In " hJ@ .- III be saw
"a ,ard if they made ny head ache
ever So mlah l dill not care. SO,
sitting town tic service went u,bnt
I'D mi4i.ter came. A. last very
tlia looking man came In 0 the pulpit
land pencil his bitlo and read these
wor S: "Look unto Ne, aad be ye
s.yel. all the ends OF the earth"
IJas, setting his eyes upon me, as if
I be knew me Ill by heart, he said,
Young ma, yoU are 10 trouble"
( Well. | was sure enough. Says hey
"Yoa gill lover get cat Of it unless
Ny9u lok t. Christ" And then lift.
iug up his haads he cried our. as only
/ think Pr.miliy. lethodi' could
do, ~ ok, look, look - 1t is only
loob," said he. [ saw at nee the
way OF salyaIou. Oh, hog | dil leap
. for JOS at that momert. I know not
whA, else be said; l did not take
much notice If i'll Was SO possessed
ilh tha, ouy thought. Like as when
'bo b.azu s9p nc was lifted up, they
only looked and we're healed. | bad
be % wairag to do fifty thiags, but
when [ heard dis word. Look,
vha.a charming word il seemed to
Z mo. Oh, I looked until l could al
most hive boxed my eyes away, and
lin heaven 1 will look on sri in my
! ioy unuuorable now think | am
b ind never to preach a sermon
without preaching to sio"ers. l do
I,hink that minister who can preach
a seimou without addressing to SIN
uer. do not know how to preach
Lspur-ecn