" When he went out I took down my Bible and
commenced to read about Noah, and the thought came stealing over me,
"Here is a man that toiled and worked a hundred years and didn't get
discouraged; if he did, the Holy Ghost didn't put it on record," and the
clouds lifted, and I got up and said, if the Lord wants me to work
without any fruit I will work on. I went down to the noon
prayer-meeting, and when I saw the people coming to pray I said to
myself, "Noah worked a hundred years and he never saw a prayer-meeting
outside of his own family." Pretty soon a man got up right across the
aisle where I was sitting, and said he had come from a little town where
there had been a hundred uniting with the Church of God the year before.
And I thought to myself, "What if Noah had heard that! He preached so
many, many years, and didn't get a convert, yet he was not discouraged."
Then a man got up right behind me, and he trembled as he said, "I am
lost. I want you to pray for my soul." And I said, "What if Noah had
heard that! He worked a hundred and twenty years, and never had a man
come to him and say that; and yet he didn't get discouraged." And I made
up my mind then, that, God helping me, I would never get discouraged.
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