After coaxing and pleading
with them there were six fellows that came forward and knelt down, when
to my astonishment who came walking up the aisle but Jim! He knelt down
with the others and prayed. I did not know what the prayer was, but when
he rose he went back and took his seat and said nothing.
A month went by to a day. There were testimonies every night from all
over the Mission about what God had done and was doing, but Jim never
gave the first word of testimony. I often wondered why. This night he
got on his feet, and this is what he said: "Men, I've been everything
that's bad and mean, a crook and a drunkard, separated from wife and
children, a good-for-nothing man. I want to stand here before you
people and thank God for keeping me for one whole month; and, men, this
is the happiest month I've spent in my life. I asked God to help me and
He is doing so. I only wish some of you men would take Jesus as your
friend and keeper the same as I have. I'm going to stick, with God's
help. I want you Christian people to keep on praying for me, as I feel
some one has," and he sat down. Oh, how I did thank God for that
testimony! You know a person can tell the true ring of anything, gold,
silver, brass, everything, and I knew the ring of that testimony.
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