AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Strand (now entirely vanished) that a bill was put into my hand by a young man bearing some such notice as the
following:
SCEPTICS and the BIBLE
An address will be given on the above subject by:
Dr. L. W. Munhall, M.A., D.D.
U.S.A.
at Exeter Hall, Strand.
It must be admitted that the word `sceptics' and not the word `Bible' drew me to that meeting in November in
the year 1900 and it was with amazement that I listened to a man who was most evidently sane and scholarly,
actually maintaining that the Scriptures were true! As further meetings were announced, I enquired of Dr. Munhall
as we were leaving, what his subject would be on the succeeding evening. `We'll have the good old Gospel' was his
reply. Now it may scarcely seem possible, but I did not at that time really know what the `Gospel' meant, and all
next
day
I
hesitated.
`What's
the
use
of
wasting
time?'
`Perhaps
it would be fair to let him speak for himself!' By the overruling mercy of the God Who at that time was unknown
and unloved, I went to that meeting where `the good old Gospel' was preached. The text was taken from the Gospel
of John `He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life', and I passed from death unto life upon believing that
simple testimony. I had no `views' on any doctrine of the Scriptures. Such terms as `Atonement', `Justification',
`Reconciliation' and the like, were as the words of a foreign tongue.