"I have stolen the pennies out of my baby's bank to satisfy that awful desire for whisky. Don't tell me that a man does that because he wants to; I couldn't help it. God help me; I've tried as hard as any man ever tried to be somebody but that craving for whisky was there and it had to be first in my life. Whisky was my god, I worshiped it, I loved it better than my family, my life. I've taken the shoes off my feet in the winter time and traded them for whisky. But to-day, thank God, I've not even wanted a drink. The first day in years that I've not wanted whisky is to-day. Gold cure failed; prison bars failed; wife's tears failed; but Jesus has taken even the desire for it away. When a man has that gnawing at his very vitals there is but two things that will touch it, a big drink of whisky or the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank God, I have Him, and I'll never thirst again. Last night I leaped from the bridge into the water to end my life; but God saved me from death and hell. I do not understand how He can love such a brute as I am, but He does and now I'm saved." The doctor was very much moved by what he had heard. "I never heard it just this way," he said. "The way you folks put it it's a personal matter and I never could believe that. I believe there is some great Supreme Being; but I do not believe in a personal God. I think that after you die you get what's coming to you; but you people say that you're saved right now and you know it. That can't be." In the inquiry meeting, Morton took his Bible and sat down beside Dr. Snyder. "Doctor, read that verse," he said, opening his Bible to John 5:24. "Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth My Word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath----" "Does that mean, 'will have'?" asked Morton. "No, 'hath,' is in the present tense," said the doctor. "'Hath everlasting life', then, means that we have it now, don't it, doctor?" "That is what it says, sir." "Now look at Isaiah 53:6," said Morton. "All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way and the Lord hath laid----" "Not 'will lay'," said Morton. "'Hath laid' upon Christ 'the iniquity of us all.' Does that mean you, doctor?" asked Morton. "Can it mean me?" asked the doctor. "If the Word is true, it means you," said Morton. Like a flash it dawned upon the doctor that Jesus had borne his sins in His own body on the tree. He leaped to his feet and said: "All these years I've been a chump! I've never been satisfied with myself. Had I known this was for me I would have had it long ago." He was very happy and went from one to the other shaking hands. When he met Jimmie, he hugged him. "I want to go to Bucktown and tell the gang I'm saved," he said.