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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1883

Not Ashamed.

JUSTICE McLEAN, of Ohio, heard a minister preach. He had been a skeptic, and this minister spoke to him in such a way as to convince him of the truth and necessity of the Christian religion. He was led to see how Christ had died for him, and was born again. He went home. He had hardly gotten there before he said: "We are going to have family prayer; let us go into the drawing-room and pray together."

"But," said his wife, "there are four lawyers in there; they have come to attend court. Let us go into the kitchen to have prayers." Judge McLEAN replied: "It's the first time I ever invited the Lord to my house, and I don't propose to invite him to the kitchen by any means." He went in to those lawyers, and said: "My friends, I have found out that Jesus died on the cross for me; I have given myself to him, and now I propose to invite him to my house. You may do as you please—go or stay. But I am now to make my first prayer in my own house." They said they would very much like to stay, and did stay. From that day, Judge McLEAN lived a consistent Christian life.