Bally's For The Mind

As you may (or may not) know my favorite orator is Charles Hadden Spurgeon. I have always loved his conversion story. Found it in his own words at Pilgrim Publications and thought I would post it here today. For much more detail especially as to his state of mind and heart up to this point go here. Here is the post:

"It was about twenty-six years ago, twenty-six years exactly last Thursday, that I looked unto the Lord, and found salvation, through this text (Isaiah 45:22 — "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else."). You have often heard me tell how I had been wandering about, seeking rest, and finding none, till a plain, unlettered, lay preacher among the Primitive Methodists stood up in the pulpit, and gave out this passage as his text. He had not much to say, thank God, for that compelled him to keep on repeating his text, and there was nothing needed — by me, at any rate, — except his text. I remember how he said, —

'It is Christ that speaks. I am in the garden in an agony, pouring out my soul unto death; I am on the tree, dying for sinners; look unto Me! Look unto Me! that is all you have to do. A child can look. One who is almost an idiot can look. However weak, or however poor, a man may be, he can look; and if he looks, the promise is that he shall live.'

Then, stopping, he pointed to where I was sitting under the gallery, and he said,
'That young man there looks very miserable.'

I expect I did, for that is how I felt. Then he said,

'There is no hope for you young man, or any chance of getting rid of your sin,
but by LOOKING TO JESUS;'

and he shouted, as I think only a Primitive Methodist can,
'Look! Look, young man! LOOK NOW!'

And I did look; and when they sang a hallelujah before they went home, in their own earnest way, I am sure I joined in it. It happened to be a day when the snow was lying deep, and more was falling; so, as I went home, those words of David kept ringing through my heart, 'Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow'; and it seemed as if all nature was in accord with that blessed deliverance from sin which I had found in a single moment by looking to Jesus."
— From #2867, MTP Vol. 50, 1904, pg. 37