Gathering Jewels: The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.Knowles, James
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Gathering Jewels: The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries.
Knowles, James
Allen Street Presbyterian Church (New York, N.Y.); Knowles, James, 1811-1886; Knowles, Matilda Darroch, 1811-1886
"DEAR BROTHER YOUNG: I am engaged, night and day, holding meetings
here, I wish you could come up and attend some of the services; I
thank you for all your kind words. I am to be to-morrow at the
prayer-meeting as per bill. If you can be there I shall be glad to
see you.
"_One hundred and twenty_ here, gave their names to us yesterday,
saying they had been converted in these meetings (for the most
part). To-morrow night we go to Carle Hall. It will hold, perhaps,
three or four thousand. Pray for us.
"Yours in Jesus,
"E. P. HAMMOND."
The afternoon I visited the scene of his labors, he presented me with a
copy of his work entitled, "The Conversion of the Children," in which I
have found a very encouraging letter to workers among the little ones.
I use it here to illustrate the power of Divine grace, and to show that
wherever the effort is put forth to save the children, God blesses it.
The following letter will testify also to the power of the Gospel. It
is the production of one whom God has been graciously pleased to bless
in a marvellous manner among the young.
"GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, September, 18, 1877.
"MY DEAR MR. HAMMOND: We oftentimes remember you, though few letters
have passed between us. My daughters and myself will never forget
your visit and the time of blessing then, and they, as well as
myself, send you most hearty salutations.
"Dear brother, my thoughts on the subject of the conversion of
children are the same as when I wrote that tract you refer to.[5] I
think I agreed with you in almost every thing but one, viz.,
expressing publicly an opinion on cases. It seems to me that we
should be cautious in so doing; for children themselves mistake
_feeling_ for _faith_; how easy, then, for us who do not know the
heart, to mistake in them a manifestation of feeling for evidence of
faith.
"But in the awakening which took place under your labors here, and
in awakenings that have been given us since, the cases of young
people have been as entirely satisfactory as any cases we have had.
If conversion be God's work, in which the Holy Spirit reveals
Christ to the soul, surely His work can take place in children as
really as in the old; for it is the young soul meeting with Christ
in the one case and the adult in the other.
"One day, about the time, or perhaps after the time, you were among
us, in the vestry of my church, an old Christian woman, who had
watched the work going on, came to me and said, 'Sir, you will find
many people speaking lightly of the young who come to Christ, as if
there was nothing but feeling in their case; but never mind what
these people say. I was converted in the days of Dr. Kidd, of
Aberdeen, when I was but a child, and two others of my age were
converted at the same time; and we have all three gone on to this
day, following the Lamb.'
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