Mel Trotter, the famous rescue mission worker, was the son of a bartender who “drank as much as he served.” Trotter followed in his father’s footsteps, losing job after job because of his addiction to drinking.
Each time he lost a job, he promised to reform & start
doing better, but each time he failed.
After the death of his baby son, Trotter made his way to
Chicago where he intended to drown himself in Lake Michigan.
He had sold his shoes to get money for another drink &
was walking barefoot through the snow toward his death when he went inside the
Pacific Garden Mission & was saved.
For the next 40 years, Trotter did everything he could to
help those like himself who had fallen prey to the deceptively alluring
temptations of sin.
Satan’s advertising is never realistic. He paints beautiful
pictures of immediate pleasure, ignoring the real consequences that its
participants must endure.
If the beer companies ran ads filled with crashed cars,
paralyzed drinkers & the tiny caskets of babies killed by drunk drivers, it
would not help them sell their product. So they focus on the beginning rather
than the ending.
But no matter how beautiful the temptation appears, it is
only a mask for the reality that sin always ends in pain, heartbreak &
judgment.
As Bible says: “…sin,
when it is full-grown, brings forth death.” (James 1:15).
Source: ‘Man with a Mission: Mel Trotter and His Legacy for
the Rescue Mission Movement’, Leona Hertel (ministry127.com)
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