The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-13

mate and went up then and there and
gave my heart to God.
MY father was very wicked man at
that time, and tho congregation was
singing that grand old hymn, oh, You
must be Lover of the Lord walked
down the aisle with the tears streaming
from my eyes. The people stopped
singing when they saw little George
Stuart DING up to his father. then
put my arms around his neck and said:
Father, won't you come, too He
said: My boy, you have started right,
and L won't be stumbling block in
your way" For several days he kept
praying, and l watched him closer than
hawk ever watched young chicken.
said: Father. you ought to go up to
the altar. You are too proud to be
saved
"lIe promised ne to do as l asked, and
that day he went up and in short time
he gave his soul to tho Lord, sitting at
the altar by the side Of some little bows.
mover saw more touching sight in
my life. l watched my father with the
smile on his face and hoard him say:
Thank God, I'm saved, I'm saved. He
went on visit to his aged mother. She
was over SO years old and was
not Christian. lie stayed and
talked with her a few DAYS, and
came home bearing the blessed intelli-
genco that our aged grandmother, who
was so near the verge of the grave, had
accepted Christ. You sec what that
did. was out on one Of the streets of
Roanoke the other day, and became en-
gagged In conversation with man. l
asked him if he was Christian. mo.
am not, but ought to be- he replied.
| saw his little crippled child near him,
and got him to promise that he would
that night kncel down by the side of his
little crippled child and pray God to
make him Christian. said: God,
by HIS relations, is getting close to YOU"
If we exert our influence and our ro-
lations right, God will do great and
good things for us. In Cleveland.
Tenn, my home, was n wicked man and
and kind of an intidel. A party Of us
were there to dinner one day. In speak
ing OF another wicked man, the host
said: That man would be a Christian
ii 1T was not for his bad wife" His
own wife, dear little Christian, said
with tears in her eyes: 81 havo done
my best with you and you are not n
Christian The tears swelled up in his
eyes and he said: cts not too late 10
keep on praying for me-
That night he went to the taberna-
Gle ana was converted.
Husbands, wives, daughters, friends,
you can reach people that no one else
can reach. The preachers can not save
them like you can.
Here's a question and I'll stop in ten
minutes by the watch, Get up and tell
me what was tho leading instrument
that brought you TO Christ: can tell
you what brought me, it was that little
boy, my playmate. Brethren, get up and
tell IT, Give testimony along the line
Dozens Of mon and women arose one
at time and replied briefly.
The following are the most of the
answers:
IA deaf and dumb child brought me
to Christ"
Listening to Christians experiences
at love feasts"
EARLY Christian influence and Christ
ian home training"
My Sunday-school teacher came to
me anu said he had been praying for
me-
The example Of a good preacher"
The pupils ia my school going to the
altar, when | knew ought to have been
setting them an txample."
Saba tn school and the preaching of
the word
when nv father was dying he said
to me, L am going to Heaven and
want you to go there, too
The triumphant death of nv
mother"
Reading one of DR.. Talmage's SER
MONS"
The influence of a Cody father and
mother"
The college professor asked me to
go up to the altar"
Led by the death of a little girl"
My mothers prayers"
The prayers around tho family al
tar
This text: The summer is ended.
the harvest is passed, and we are not
saved"
"A good mother gone to Heaven"
"a brother said something to me in
church"
Some ono saying to me: Remember
thy Creator in the days of thy YOUTH"
Tho loss of my little child made me
feel that | was not living like father
should"
"A Christian mothers influence"
"a dissipated father caused mo TO
give myself to Christ
"a negro slave asking my fathers
permission to join the church,
"A dying Christian mother
~ Christian wife"
"a dear friends influence
The pious life of my father"
at sometimes discouragcs me that
none of them say that they were started
by a preacher. l tell you that it is
through your instrumntality that tho
good can be done. | want everyone here
who has loved one that they want
prayed fer to stand up and say so. and
say also that will do my best TO save
them at this meeting" at this invita-
ton great numbers of old men whose
heads were frosted with the SHOWS OF
many winters, women and men in the
mi Nf IL i.