{"id":76,"date":"2025-10-21T13:32:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/?post_type=chapter&p=76"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:33:58","slug":"chapter-4-13-the-subject-of-my-call-to-preach-renewed","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/chapter\/chapter-4-13-the-subject-of-my-call-to-preach-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4.13 \u2013 The Subject of My Call to Preach Renewed"},"content":{"raw":"
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\u201cOh that the world might taste and see<\/div>\r\n
The riches of his grace;<\/div>\r\n
The arms of love that compass me,<\/div>\r\n
Would all mankind embrace.\u201d<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nI visited a woman who was laying sick upon her death-bed. She told me \u201cshe had once enjoyed religion, but the enemy had cheated her out of it.\u201d She knew that she must die in a very little while, and could not get well, and her agony of soul, in view of its unprepared state for a judgment to come, awoke every feeling of sympathy within me. Oh! how loud such a scene calls upon us to be \u201cfaithful unto death\u201d\u2014then shall we \u201creceive a crown of life.\u201d Also visited Mrs. Miller, who once \u201ctasted that the Lord was good,\u201d but had ceased now to follow him. She had been a Methodist for many years\u2014got her feelings injured through some untoward circumstance\u2014had fallen from grace, and now was sick. A good sister accompanied me; we conversed with Mrs. M., sung an appropriate hymn, and my friend supplicated the throne of grace in her behalf. She had frequently felt the need of a returning Saviour, and during prayer her heart became melted into tenderness. She cried aloud for mercy, wrestled like Jacob for the witness, and the Lord, faithful and true, \u201chealed her backslidings,\u201d and we left her happy in his father. Praise the Lord for his matchless grace. I entertained no doubt of her well-grounded hope; and on seeing such a display of God\u2019s power, I was lost in wonder, love and praise. Let the backslider hear and take courage.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Let all who are out of Christ hear the invitation\u2014\u201cRepent ye and be converted, for God hath called all men everywhere to repent.\u201d","rendered":"
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\u201cOh that the world might taste and see<\/div>\n
The riches of his grace;<\/div>\n
The arms of love that compass me,<\/div>\n
Would all mankind embrace.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I visited a woman who was laying sick upon her death-bed. She told me \u201cshe had once enjoyed religion, but the enemy had cheated her out of it.\u201d She knew that she must die in a very little while, and could not get well, and her agony of soul, in view of its unprepared state for a judgment to come, awoke every feeling of sympathy within me. Oh! how loud such a scene calls upon us to be \u201cfaithful unto death\u201d\u2014then shall we \u201creceive a crown of life.\u201d Also visited Mrs. Miller, who once \u201ctasted that the Lord was good,\u201d but had ceased now to follow him. She had been a Methodist for many years\u2014got her feelings injured through some untoward circumstance\u2014had fallen from grace, and now was sick. A good sister accompanied me; we conversed with Mrs. M., sung an appropriate hymn, and my friend supplicated the throne of grace in her behalf. She had frequently felt the need of a returning Saviour, and during prayer her heart became melted into tenderness. She cried aloud for mercy, wrestled like Jacob for the witness, and the Lord, faithful and true, \u201chealed her backslidings,\u201d and we left her happy in his father. Praise the Lord for his matchless grace. I entertained no doubt of her well-grounded hope; and on seeing such a display of God\u2019s power, I was lost in wonder, love and praise. Let the backslider hear and take courage.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Let all who are out of Christ hear the invitation\u2014\u201cRepent ye and be converted, for God hath called all men everywhere to repent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"menu_order":21,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-76","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":20,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/20"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/76\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/eal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}