Required reading
The Fundamentals edited by R. A. Torrey (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 26 (A personal testimony).
My summary
This week we hear another personal testimony, this time from Charles T. Studd.
We learn about:
(i) his father's conversion through Moody's preaching;
(ii) his conversion through one of Mr Moody's group;
(iii) his call to China;
(iv) his work in China.
What grabbed me
I must admit that I'm finding these personal testimonies a bit random.
I did like the comment of Studd's father about Moody: 'Mr. Moody had come to England and had been preaching. Nobody believed very much at that time in a man getting up to preach the Gospel unless he had two things the title of Reverend, and a white tie round his neck. The papers could not understand such a preacher as Mr. Moody, who had neither, and of course they printed column after column against him. But they could not help seeing that he could get more people to his meetings than half a dozen archbishops, and that more were converted than by twenty ordinary ministers. Of course they did not put the right construction on things. They said that Mr. Sankey had come over to sell organs, and Mr. Moody to sell his hymn books. My father read the papers day after day and these things tickled him immensely. I remember one evening he threw the paper down and said, "Well, anyhow, when this man comes to London I am going to hear him. There must be some good about the man or he would never be abused so much by the papers." '
If the popular press doesn't like you, you must be doing something right!
Next week's reading
Read Chapter 27 (A personal testimony).
Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.
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