Nine O'clock by Dr. Chapman

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 29.

Nine O'clock.

By Dr. Chapman

A CLOCK in an Edinburgh church steeple was striking nine when three young men passed on their way to a place of sin. Suddenly one of them stopped and said, "I can not go with you." And when they pressed him for a reason, he said, "When I left my home in the hill country, my old mother said, 'My son, you are going into a wicked city, but your old father and I will pray for you every night, and at nine o'clock we will be on our knees.' They are praying for me now, and I can not go."

He turned about, sought his room, cried out to God for mercy, and was saved. He is to-day one of the leading merchants in Edinburgh. Decision of character was the means of his salvation.