The Washington herald., 1914-04-05

am giving you the straight goods" he
continued, speaking rapidly In the lam
guage he knows so well and uses so
often when he appeals TO down-and-out-
ers
Things loved at once became hate
full; things hated. at once became beau
tifuI. There Is no bunk in what say.
!. i am attempting no con game on you
or any one else The liquor habit dropped
| from me like rags. I have never wanted
| to drink since. but ! was leary about
myself for many a day to come.
when got on my knees. there in the
mission. I said the prayer taught me
at home. had tried to pray more than
once before that night. even though ]
was practically dead to the world with
liquor. And I had failed. Now I sue
ceeded and I saw Jesus on calvary
cross for my sins.
N"I accompanied my brother home that
night Next morning l went to work In
his shop. didn't crave whisky. though
I had been drinking steadily for six
years. That night went to the mission
and told the bunch ! was saved. | went
to the mission every night In the week
except Saturday. when ! worked IN the
shop. and kept up the practice for three
years.
The RetuPn of His Wife.
Moreover. I learned verse I'm the
Bible each day. At the end OF So days
I could repeat 65 verses and tell where
they could be found. I stopped buns
on the street, talked to them and steered
them OF to the mission. My wife was
soon on the ground The love of good
woman is next to the ,ove of God. We
went to housekeeping in one room, Tor
which we paid 81 week. My nerves
were so unsteady that. with commits
sion OF 60 cents on a dollar, ] could earn
at first no more than SO a month. Wed
buy a soup bone in the morning ana
would have soup that day. cold meat the
next day and nash the day after. On the
fourth day I would polish the bone until
1t looked like a cellulOId war-club. Thus
we were enabled to live on $3.50 week.
81 bought my brothers shop, moved II
into a better room and later got situa-
tion with a large advertising firm. Now
bear in mind that had no desire TO get
drunk Indeed the thought of liquor
became repulsive. / really longed to do
nothing but tell the whole world of my
deliverance. Conscious Of my lmita-
tions. I entered the Moody Bible Insti-
! tute for an hour each day.
Tomorrow. DIR. Gray announced on
| the twenty fourth day. we shall begin
the study OF homiletics-
"He meant that we should take up
the art of preaching. 'Homiletics,' ! re-
peated to myself. II was new line OF
talk to me. 1 couldn't even spell the
word. young fellow in the seat ahead
was taking notes. ! looked over his
shoulder and Glimmed to get wise. He
was writing shorthand. So / beat IL and
never went back. Mr.. Moody afterward
became my friend
Every night for three years. as l said,
I was at the Pacific Garden Mission.
Most 81 my time was spent at the door
as a regulator OF the gangs that came
in for other object than getting religion.
Then ] went along with Harry ltonroe
to Grand Rapids. I have alread' told
you what followed.
His First Wear in Michigan.
We were used by God to transform
800 men and women the first year.
say transform because the word reform
is threadbare and meaningless. The
gross expenses Tor every one who stood
up for prayers was only sl.so That