Part 2 (1/2)

How different was the case of that Doctor who also had been an unbeliever as well as a drunkard! Highly educated, skilful, and gifted above most in his profession, he was taken into consultation for specially dangerous cases, whenever they could find him tolerably sober

After one of his excessive ”bouts” he had a dreadful attack of _deliriule to dash froht of prussic acid; at another, they detected the silver-hafted lancet concealed in the band of his shi+rt, as he lay down, to bleed himself to death His aunt came and pleaded withwife and two beautiful little children Visiting him twice daily, and sometimes even more frequently, I found the way so for ain the fit of self-destruction seized hirasping mine said, ”Put all these people out of the roo you ask!”

I got the to ”keep near the door”

Alone I sat beside him, my hand in his, and kept up a quiet conversation for several hours After we had talked of everything that I could think of, and it was now far into the ht read a chapter, verse about”

He said dreaet up to it, youit, and laying it on a small table which I drew near to the sofa on which we sat, we read there and then a chapter together

After this I said; ”Now, shall we pray?”

He replied heartily, ”Yes”

I having reether at the sofa; and after a solemn pause I whispered, ”You pray first”

He replied, ”I curse, I cannot pray; would you have me curse God to His face?”

I answered, ”You promised to do all that I asked; you must pray, or try to pray, and let me hear that you cannot”

He said, ”I cannot curse God on my knees; let ently held hi, ”Just try to pray, and let me hear you cannot”

Instantly he cried out, ”O Lord, Thou knowest I cannot pray,” and was going to say soently the words he had uttered as if they had beenfor hiether, till he showed that he was co froreatly ie by daybreak andforo?”

”Yes,” was his reply

”Then,” said I, ”it is long since you had a refreshi+ng sleep: noill you lie down, and I will sit by you till you fall asleep?”

He lay down, and was soon fast asleep After co of the Lord, I quietly slipped out, and his wife returned to watch by his side When I came back later in the day, afterme in his ar refreshed from sleep, and prayed with my wife and children for the first time in my life; and now I shall do so every day, and serve God while I live, who hath dealt in so great htful conversation, he proton's church on Sabbath Day; there he took sittings beside me; at next half-yearly Communion he and his ere received into membershi+p, and their children were baptized; and from that day till his death he led a devoted and most useful Christian life He now sleeps in Jesus; and I do believe I shall race and love!

In my Mission district I was the witness of many joyful departures to be with Jesus,--I do not like to naht assurance that nothing present or to come ”could ever separate them or us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” Many exaiven; but I can find room for only one John Sim, a dear little boy, was carried away by consumption His child-heart see Jesus His sis, arrested not only his young companions, but pierced the hearts of soreatly refreshed the faith of God's dear people It was the very pathos of song incarnated to hear the weak quaver of his dying voice sing out--

”I lay my sins on Jesus, The spotless Lamb of God”

Shortly before his decease he said to his parents, ”I a soon to be with Jesus; but I sometimes fear that I may not see you there”

”Why so,oing to Heaven and seeing Jesus there, you would pray about it, and sing about it; you would talk about Jesus to others, and tell the with Hiht me, and she will meet me there Nohy did not you, s about Jesus, if you are going tochild; and he little knew, in his unthinking eighth year, what a h his innocent words

One day an aunt from the country visited his mother, and their talk had run in channels for which the child no longer felt any interest Ondown beside him, he said, ”Sit you down and talk withsosoon to be with Hi you know or have ever heard about Jesus, the spotless Laed to be away, not for rest, or freedom from pain--for of that he had very little--but, as he himself always put it, ”to see Jesus” And, after all, that was the wisdom of the heart, however he learned it Eternal life, here or hereafter, is just the vision of Jesus

CHAPTER IX