"I remember, as if it were but yesterday, the spot in the corner of
a room under the chapel, the hour, the resolution to end the
matter, the rising up and rushing forth, the finding of the young
fellow I had chiefly wronged, the acknowledgment of my sin, the
return of the pencil-case--the instant rolling away from my heart
of the guilty burden, the peace that came in its place, and the
going forth to serve my God and my generation from that hour.

"It was in the open street that this great change passed over me,
and if I could only have possessed the flagstone on which I stood
at that happy moment, the sight of it occasionally might have been
as useful to me as the stones carried up long ago from the bed of
the Jordan were to the Israelites who had passed over them
dry-shod.

"Since that night, for it was near upon eleven o'clock when the
happy change was realised, the business of my life has been not
only to make a holy character but to live a life of loving activity
in the service of God and man. I have ever felt that true religion
consists not only in being holy myself, but in assisting my
Crucified Lord in His work of saving men and women, making them
into His Soldiers, keeping them faithful to death, and so getting
them into Heaven.

"I have had to encounter all sorts of difficulties as I have
travelled along this road. The world has been against me, sometimes
very intensely, and often very stupidly. I have had difficulties
similar to those of other men, with my own bodily appetites, with
my mental disposition, and with my natural unbelief.