Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III With the Brethren—Work among hooligans—Turned out of the Brethren—Joins the Church of England—Stormy services at Richmond—The " Rough Sunday School"— Moody and Sankey—Henry Drummond—The Camber- well Mission—The London Evangelistic Choir—Hymn writer and composer—A period of silence—Back from the wilderness—The Evangelisation Society—Tried and found wanting—Another chance. " There are, in this loud, stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart, Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat." NO apology is needed for using the old word " conversion" in connection with Wilson Carlile's experience, for none other adequately describes the great change wrought in his life. Up to this time all his energies and talents had been devoted entirely to personal ambition and gain. " I was a money-grubber, pure and simple," he has said to me more than once, in discussing the period. " I worked and schemed with the sole idea of piling up my banking account—all my thoughts were given to that one end." But now he turned his back upon all this. The service of Jesus Christ became his one passion. His eyes had been opened ; he had seen the King in His beauty, and all else seemed poor and worthless in comparison. He knew that his Redeemer lived, for he had met Him, as surely as did St. Paul when he trod a like road long centuries before. From that day a devotion to a risen Saviour, a personal Friend more real than any at his elbow, became the great motive power of his life. No doubts or difficulties met him then, or have assailed him since. His Christian evidences have been simple but sufficient. " You may de...