Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-08
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"What Would Jesus Do?"


The man laughed savagely. Then ne
struck his hand against the fence with
such sudden passion that he drew blood.
kept it'll / was drunk inside OF o
week. I've been drinking ever since.
but I've never forgotten you or your
prayer. Do you remember. the morning
after | came to your house and after
breakfast. you had prayers and asked
me to come in and sit with the .rest :
That got me. But my mother .sed to
pray. can see her now kneeling down
by my bed when was lad Father
came in one night drunk and kicked
her while she was kneeling there by
me, but mover forgot that prayer of
yours that morning. You prayed for
me lust as mother used to. and you did
no. seem to take count Of the fact that
was ragged and tough looking and
more than half drunk when rung your
doorbell My God what a life I've
livedl The saloon has housed me and
homed me and made hell on earth for
me- But that prayer stuck to Inc all the
time My promise not to drink was
broken in a thousand pieces inside OF
two Sundays. and | lost the job you
found for me and landed in police sta.
tion two days afterward. but | never
forgot you or your prayer. | don't
know what good it's done me. but !
never forgot it. and won't do any
harm to you nor let any one else So
you re free to go That's why.
The bishop did not stir. Somewhere
church clock struck The man had
put on his hat and gone back to his seat
on the stone The bishop was thinking
hard
"How long is it since you had work.
he asked. and the man standing up
answered for the other
.More'n six months since either OF
us did anything to tell of. unless you
count holding up work. call it pretty
wearing kind of job myself, especially
when we put in night like this one
and don t make nothing.
Suppose found good jobs for both
of you. Would you quit this and begin
all overY'
What's the use3' The man on the
stone spoke sullenly I've reformed
hundred times Every time ! 60 down
deeper The devils begun to forcelose
on me already It's too late
Mo- said the bishop. and never be,
fore the most .ntranced audience had
he felt the desire for souls burn mp in
him 80 strongly All the time he sat
there during the remarkable scene he
prayed 20 Lord Jesus. give me the
souls of these two for thee | am hun
gry for them Give them to mel!
No the bishop repeated. What
does God want of you two menf 1t
doesn 80 mnch. matter what | want.
but he wants Just what ! do in this
case You two men are Of infinite value
to him And then the bishops Won
derfu memory came to his aid in an
appeal such as no one else on earth
among men could make under such cir
cunstances He: had remembered the
man 9 name in spite of the wonderfully
busy years that lay between his coming
to the house and the present moment
BURNS. he said and he yearned
over the men with an unspeakable long
ing for them both. 'if you and your
friend here will 20 home with me to-
night | will find you both places OF
honorable employment will believe
in Won and trust you You are both
comparatively young men Why should
God lose your 1t is great thing to
win the love of the great Father 1t is
small thing that l should love you.
but if you need to feel again that there
is love in the world you will believe
me when say. my brothers. that love
you. and in the name Of him who was
crucitied for our sins cannot bear to
see you miss the glory of the human
life Come! Be menI Make another try
for it. God helping you No one but
God and you and myself need ever
know anything of this tonight He has
forgiven it The minute you ask him to
you will find that true Come Well
fight it out together. YOU two and l.
It's worth fighting for Everlasting life
ia 1t was the sinner that Christ came
to help I'll do what can for you. o
God. give me the souls of these two
men,
The bishop broke into a prayer to
God that was Il continuation of his ap.
peal to the men His pent up feeling
had no other outlet Before he had
prayed many moments Burns was sit
ting with his face buried in his hands,
sobbing Where were his mother 8
prayers nowr They were adding to the
power of the bishops And the other
man. harder less moved, without a
previous knowledge of the bishop. leaned
back against the fence. stolid at first
but as the prayer went on he was moved
by it What force of the Holy Spirit
swept over his dulled. brutal. coarsened
life nothing but the eternal records of
the recording angel can ever disclose
but that same supernatural presence that
smote Paul on the road to Damascus
and poured through Henry Maxwell g
church the morning he asked disciples
to follow in Jesus steps and had again
broken irresistibly over the Nazareth
Avenue congregation now manifested
himself in this foul corner of the mighty
city and over the natures of these two
sinful sunGen men. apparently lost to
all the pleadings of conscience and
memory of God The bishops prayer
seemed to break open the crust that had
for years surrounded these two men and
shut them off from divine communica-