The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-03-13

What great honor it that God placed upon Wesley
when by the Holy Spirit He inspired him to write that hymn
Now Wesley has gone his reward and is with his God in
Heaven but today these the first of the twentieth
ury sing the words that he wrote All how true is that
Of God live after they dead than they do be-
fore!
There another hymn you have often heard sung At
time there charge of church Oh how happy
place true Church home where there man OF God who
the people and loves hem where there spiritual chill
ren who been born from above through his mnsy The
day when that felt called to his connection with
that people and go elsewhere All the furniture packed
The put the freight and the members Of the
church. with broken hearts, begged him not to
and he picked Of paper and sat down empty
and Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in
Christian love- The fellowship of kindred minds like to that
above.''
The first stanza of Be Tie then sung very
feeingly
In these two hymns you have an illustration Of
that when speaks from experience his
words come with mighty power
Story Release.
In the year 1885, in old Ireland there born child
He brought to this country While still little boy his
father counterfeted the of this country When the off
his track he fed and here again
This little boy taken charge of by his grandmother When
thirteen Of he went the City of New York. and into
the home of his sister Soon the traits OF the father began to
the son. and he left his sisters home and went into the
fourth ward of New York City, and into of those cheap
lodging houses took and then he began to steal from the
boats the river In the year 1857 he arrested tried and
sent to Sing Sing prison for fifteen years. The first
he made good record The three years he made bad
record. The seventh year. who had been great
counterer and who had given himself Cod addressed the
passage Of Scripture but did not give the book the
this back his cell he took down his Bible
and hunted for the could find it. After
reading Word Of God for few weeks he gave himself
Christ and began to talk Christ to the prisoners and many
converted In 1864 March 8h he pardoned from
the prison. and went back to New York City There
welcome him there to give him kind word
handshake and he went back to his old ways After
the Civil War he got than and had stealing
from the boats and he paying for the goods counterfeit
money In the year 1872 the thought returned to him, the
thought that he had had in prison when he had given himself
to Christ but there to help him. One night half
naked and half starved leaning up against building mis-
sionary worker him. and talked to him about Jesus
He said H not Jesus that need much it clothes to
keep warm The missionary took off his coat and
gave it to the
At 316 Water street the Helping Hand Mission
launched by that God richly blessed that work and gave
the money and hundreds of sailors wayfarng and ramps
and thieves converted to God After few years
wealthy put up buildings then in few years he
felt his work finished and went to 1876 Thrysecond street.
and established the Crenmo Mission close by the Crnmorn
Gardens and in that place hundreds led to God by that
for he knew what it to be from God about
far could get and he knew what get close
Cod and he could talk those poor wreche and tell them Of
Gods love-
In 1884, the month Of September he suddenly seized
with lung trouble Wednesday At Thursday he
passed away and Lords day. September 2 1884, in the
great Broadway Tabernacle his funeral service held and
two hours before the hour for the service the building
packed thousands outside knocking for admission and
when the coffin brought and placed the bier at
completely buried by flowers That Jerry Mac
Caulay.