Watchnight Service at the Palladium

We had a service in the Palladium from eleven o’clock on Thursday, December 31st to 12:30 on Friday morning, January 1st of this year. We had a very solemn service indeed, and a good many were present. I received the following letter from a parent who was present with his son: —
“DEAR DR. WREFORD, — On old year’s eve I sat with my boy in the Palladium to listen to you preach, and while you were speaking of the funeral knell of the world sounding, and the tolling of the bell of the world’s doom, I felt my boy shaking the seat beside me. I was praying that God would speak to him now, and sure enough the word had reached his heart. I did not know this until I was walking home with him, when he said, FATHER, THE TOLLING OF THE BELL! and burst into tears. He wept for some time. When I reached home I took the Word of God, and reading John 3:16 verse to him, I asked him to read it like this: ‘God so loved ME that He gave His only begotten Son, that if I believe in Him, I shall not perish, but have everlasting life.’ Then, after praying with him, I left him in his bed, and went to my room and prayed that God would finish the work He had begun in his soul. I felt the assurance in my own soul that God would answer my prayer. I was unable to see him again until about midday, and then I said to him, How is it now? he replied, ‘I have had a very anxious time this morning; it was continually in my mind (I saw he had been weeping much), but about twelve o’clock the burden flew away and I felt so happy and knew my sins were all gone, washed away by the precious blood of God’s dear Son.’ To Him be all the praise. I can now say that truly there is a great change in his life, but he needs your prayers. What a joy to know that God has blessed His word the first day of 1915, and saved a soul at the Palladium! This is worth all we do for Him, and oh! how little we do for Him who has done everything for us. Dear Doctor, go on with the preaching, and God WILL bless. We SHALL reap if we faint not.”
Pray, friends, for this young convert, our first known soul for 1915, and pray for others who are anxious.
Our dear friend, Mr. Samuel Tomkins, has sent me some very appropriate verses on the War, which I very gladly insert here: —