07.02.28. The Testimony Meeting

28. THE TESTIMONY MEETING

After the message they had testimonies. One man after another arose to his feet and told his story. There were young men who seemed to have lived just as he had. They told how they had been bound by habits, how they had beat their way around the country; hungry and cold, unable to hold a job, and how their mothers were heart broken over their lives and their brothers and friends had no confidence in them, and they would climax their testimony by saying, "We came in here one night and found Jesus, and he took away the old desires and made new men out of us. We don’t want the old things any more, we have a good job, mother isn’t worrying about us, we have regained our old friends and have made many new ones, and best of all, we have Jesus." Todd had heard lots of preaching but he had never heard religion brought down to the practical, every day life as these men did in their testimonies.