A Reminder, From Years Ago, by R. A. Torrey

“Even those who will not allow you to speak to them about God, cannot prevent you speaking to God about them. What mighty conquests have been won this way－Hudson, a young schoolboy, reading tracts in his father’s study one Sunday afternoon while his parents were away for the week- end; his mother constrained, where she was, to pray specially for her boy, who was called that very afternoon, miles away, to the Savior, and to become the great Hudson Taylor, of the China Inland Mission. Reuben, a dissolute young man who has left home, has one night got out of bed to commit suicide; his mother, miles away, has that very hour been constrained also to get out of bed, and to pray specially for her erring son, who, instead of suicide, was saved, subsequently to become the famous American evangelist…”

Dr. R. A. Torrey