The first conversion to Christianity by Halley’s comet was
recorded to-day. As far as the available records show, this is
the comet’s first convert.
At 4:30 o’clock yesterday morning a number of people who had
shortened their matutinal slumbers to watch the great sidereal
visitor from the roof of a Fourth Avenue apartment house were
startled by a loud cry from one of their party. The man, a
professional skeptic, was standing with arms outstretched to the
heavens, weeping profusely.
“This convinces me that there is a God,” he said to his friends.
“Hereafter I shall always live as a Christian. These stars could
not be unless there is a God.”
The profound impression created on the man by the spectacle had
not worn off to-day, and he assured his friends he meant to
attend church regularly hereafter and to conduct himself as a
Godfearing man should.
“I had never seen the heavens as I did then,” he declared this
morning. “I did not realize what a wonderful world it is.”
The man’s name is withheld in order to save him from what his
friends say would be embarrassing publicity. His agnostic
beliefs have long been the despair of his well-wishers, who are
elated over his curious conversion.--Brooklyn _Eagle_.
(May, 1910.)
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=Converts in Heathendom=--See NATIVE CONVERTS.
=Convict, A=--See DEAD THO ALIVE.