One of the most notoriously bad characters that ever lived in New York was Orville Gardner. He was the trainer of prize-fighters & companion of all sorts of bad characters. His reputation was so thoroughly bad that he was called “Awful Gardner.”
He had a little boy whom he dearly loved & this boy
died. A short time after his boy’s death, he was standing in a New York bar,
surrounded by a number of his companions.
The night was very warm & he stepped outside the bar to
get a little fresh air. As he stood out there & looked up between the high
buildings at the sky above his head, a bright star was shining down upon him,
and as he stood looking at the star, he said to himself, “I wonder where my
little boy is tonight?”
Then the thought came to him quick as a flash, “Wherever he
is, you will never see him again unless you change your life.”
Touched by the Spirit of God, he hurried from the bar to the
room where he knew his godly mother was. He went in & asked her to pray for
him. She did pray for him & led him to Christ. God gave him perfect
deliverance from liquor.
He became a mighty preacher of the gospel. It was through
listening to him preach that Jerry McAuley (a convict turned preacher &
founder of the McAuley Water Street Mission) was set to thinking that led to
his salvation.
Source: 'Anecdotes and Illustrations', R. A. Torrey
(ministry127.com)
1 Cor 6:9-10: “Don’t fool yourselves. Those who live immoral
lives, who are idol worshipers, adulterers or homosexuals - will have no share
in his Kingdom. Neither will thieves or greedy people, drunkards, slanderers,
or robbers.”
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