“Dear Brother:
I want to tell you something about how I was converted. Before I was converted, the devil was tempting me, and did not want me to go to meeting or Sunday-school, and I always used to cry, and did not want to go, but mother said I was to go, so I went along, and the Lord said to me, You would not come unto Me and get rest. But thanks be to God, on the sixth day of December, 1908, His holy Spirit entered into my heart and gave me victory over Satan and I went to Sunday-school.
Just as I got there, my teacher, Mrs. D. gave out the hymn,
“What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!” and after she prayed, and she read “Charley’s Message.”
The verse that struck me, and caused me to be converted was,
“Yes, plase, my Sunday lady tell;
And give her Charley’s love,
And that I’se going to Jesus now,
To Jesus’ home above.”
So I now praise God that I can rejoice with Charley’s hope that I am on my way to glory, washed in the precious blood of Jesus, asking God to keep me unto the day of resurrection.
R. G., 13 years of age.”
Children, go and tell of Jesus.
How He died our souls to save;
How, from bondage to release us,
He himself a ransom gave.
Tell around the wondrous story,
How on Calvary’s cross He died;
There the Lord of life and glory
For our sins was crucified.
ML 12/26/1909