The most precious experience in my life, I believe, next to my own
conversion, was the salvation of my own dear father, for whom I had
prayed a year and a half. He joined the Baptist denomination when only
a young man, but, not having the real witness of sins forgiven, never
felt satisfied with his Christian experience, or rather his profession.
A few years later, feeling that he would be acting a hypocrite to go on
in that condition, he even dropped his profession.
Eighteen or twenty years ago he attended a revival held by the United
Brethren people and began to seek God. Night after night he went forward
for prayer, but for lack of proper instruction, failed to find the peace
he so earnestly sought.