The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05

hand, which 7 supposed was ques-
ton, and 1 thrust it into my coat peck
ct. On the platform I drew 1t forth
as one of the questions to be answered,
and, to my establishment, found it was
a check for $1,000. The man had not
been asked for one cent; but the love
of God had captivated his heart and
gotten controi-not only of it, but OF
his pocketbook and all. He wished to
show the LORD his appreciation of the
love divine the length and breadth
and height and depth, of which he now
comprehended as never before.
Another case: I met with a Conven-
ton of Bible Students in Chattanooga
some five years ago. gentleman at
tended who introduced himself to me
saying that he was from Mississippi
and that he had become deeply inter-
ested in my presentations of the har-
mony of the Word of God. He said
in substance: Brother Russell, I will
not attempt tc tell you how wicked a
man 1 was before 1 got your litera-
ture Ny dear wife here, an earnest
Methodist, said to me, John, John, you
will surely go TO hell! 1 replied to her,
Mary, 1 know it, I know it, And,
Mary I am determined that Will de-
serve all that 1 get. / am not going
to hell for nothing One of your
tracts came to my desk in my store
said that this was different from any
thing 1 ever understood respecting the
teachings of the Bible. 1t seems more
God-like and more rational. 1 sent to
YOU for various Bible Students Helps.
The result, dear Brother Russell, is
that the love of God has constrained
me- has conquered me. in a way that
the doctrines of devilish torments
could not influence me. Now I see
the true teachings of Gods Word
can honor him and worship him and
take pleasure in living down my life
i'm his service 1 have made a full
conservation of everything. For a time
I sent you a $50 check every month;
but Brother Russell, that was in the
nature of conscience money, because
the most profitable feature of my store
trade was the sale OF liquor to the
Mississippi negroes. Those checks
stoDped, beca Use, as the grace or God
more and more filled and overlooked
nv heart, it brought me to see that
I must love my neighbor as myself
and do injury to none That is all
gone now, Brother Russell, and my
whole life is devoted to the service of
God and my Fellow men,
Three murderers confined in the Co
Iunabus Ohio, penitentiary had from
childhood been trained in the doc
trines of eternal torment in different
Those men, under Gods providence,
received some of our literature
Studies''-and were cut TO
the heart when they learned of the
vine Plan of the Ages To be brief: A
knowledge of the Love of God MADE
such change in the hearts and lives
of those three inurderers that the
prison keepers took knowledge of them
that they had been with Jesus and
had learned Of him. BY and by they |
were paroled and today two of them |
are preaching the Gospel of the Love |
of God, seeking to bring their fellow |
men out of the condition of darkness !
and sin into the glorious sunlight of |
Divine Love and Truth. Having tried |
the Gospel of fear and damnation and |
torture for sixteen centuries; having |
seen that under this teaching there are |
more blasphemy and general wicked /
ness than ever in the heather world, 4
is it not due time to give the true I
bread and water of life to the hungry !