Christian herald and signs of our times . d men, or five million menget up and tell me that they have felt thereligion of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort,a help, an inspiration, I am bound as afair-minded man to accept their want just now to put before you threepropositions, the truth of which I thinkthis audience will attest with overwhelm-ing unanimity. The first proposition is :We are witnesses that the religion ofChrist is able to convert a soul. The Gos-pel may have had a hard time to conquerus, we may have fought it back, but wewere vanquished. You say conversion isonly an imag
Christian herald and signs of our times . d men, or five million menget up and tell me that they have felt thereligion of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort,a help, an inspiration, I am bound as afair-minded man to accept their want just now to put before you threepropositions, the truth of which I thinkthis audience will attest with overwhelm-ing unanimity. The first proposition is :We are witnesses that the religion ofChrist is able to convert a soul. The Gos-pel may have had a hard time to conquerus, we may have fought it back, but wewere vanquished. You say conversion isonly an imaginary thing. We knowbetter. We are witnesses. • Therenever was so great a change in ourheart and life on any other subject as onthis. People laughed at the missionariesin Madagascar because they preached tenyears without one convert; but there aremany thousands of converts in Madagas-car to-day. People laughed at Dr. Jud-son, the Baptist missionary, because hekept on preaching in Burmah five yearswithout a single convert; but there are. THE SWEARING CAPTAIN. many thousands of Baptists in Burmahto-day. People laughed at Doctor Mor-rison, in China, for preaching there sevenyears without a single conversion ; butthere are many thousands of Christiansin China to-day. People laughed at themissionaries for preaching at Tahiti forfifteen years without a single conversion,and at the missionaries for preaching inBengal seventeen years without a singleconversion ; yet in all those lands thereare multitudes of Christians to-day. But why go so far to find evidences ofthe Gospels power to save a soul ? Weare witnesses. We were so proud that no man could have humbled us; wewere so hard that no earthly power couldhave melted us ; angels of God were allaround about us ; they could not over-come us; but one day, perhaps at aMethodist anxious seat, or at a Presby-terian catechetical lecture, or at a burial,or on horseback, a power seized us, andmade us get down, and made us tremble,and made us
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