The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1912, Page 45

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God’s Wonderful Ways.

In the city of Berlin a young clerk had rented
a room in the house of a Christian tailor, when
he fell seriously sick. His friend, a young doctor,
came to see him regularly and treated him with
self-denying love. But he could not prove a friend
to the sick man’s soul; for he, as well as the young
clerk, were far away from God and strangers to
the promises of grace.

When the sickness grew worse, the doctor
ordered the bed to be moved as far as possible

with eyes wide open and answered all the doctor’s
questions with the words:

Repent, O sinner, whilst ’tis day!

Ere night comes life may pass away.

“What ails you?” said the doctor; “you are
quite changed. What does it mean? Your fever
has abated, your pulse is almost regular, else I
should think you were talking out of your mind.”
The only reply the sick man made was: “Repent,
O sinner, whilst *tis day!”

The doctor grew uneasy. His conscience was
troubled, and he left the sick-room to go home.

From left to right: Janie Carter, Williette Doswell, Fanny Johns, Chanie Doswell,
QO. Lynn (vicar), Joseph Glenn, Wm. P. Holmes, Claudius Johns.

CATECHUMEN CLASS AT MEHERRIN, VA.
Contirmed on Palm Sunday, 1912.

‘away from the window. So the bed was moved
to the opposite corner, quite close to the thin par-
tition which separated the sick man’s dwelling from
that of his landlord.

As the young man lay there, he soon heard very
distinctly the words: .

Repent, O sinner, whilst ’tis day!
Ere night comes life may pass away.

The words were repeated again and again, and
were firmly impressed on the sick man’s memory.
He felt as if they were written with fiery letters
on his heart.

When his friend, the doctor, came to see him and
asked him how he felt, the sick man stared at him

But the words, “Repent, O sinner, whilst ’tis day,”
went with him and he could not get rid of them.
Wherever he stood, wherever he went, he heard the
words: “Repent, O sinner, whilst ’tis day!”

When he the next day visited his sick friend,
he found him free of fever, sitting up and reading
the Bible. The two friends soon found peace and
salvation in their Savior, after having learned the
whole counsel of God for the salvation of sinners
from a well-known pastor to whom the doctor had
applied, telling him all that had happened.

The pastor who relates the story adds: How
wonderful are the ways of God in bringing sinners
to salvation! “The very evening when the bed was