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Recollections of a Long Life

CHAPTER XII
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It was my aim, and ever has been, to convince every awakened person that unless he or she was willing to give the heart to Jesus and to do His will there was no hope for them.

We must shut every soul up to Christ.
I requested my people to inform me promptly of every case of serious sickness, and I could never be too prompt in responding to such a call.
However busy I might be in preparing sermons or any commendable occupation everything else was laid aside.

For a pastor should be as quick to respond to a call of sickness as an ambulance is to reach the scene of disaster.

I sometimes found that a parishioner had been suddenly attacked with dangerous illness and even my entrance in the sick room might agitate the patient.

At such times I found it necessary to use all the tact and delicacy and discretion at my command.


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