July 29

JESUS, SPEAKING through CHILDREN:Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise” (Mt 21:16). In 1880, James W.C. Fegan was on a camping trip in the country with some of the boys he had rescued from the city streets. They visited the home of Charles Darwin, who lived nearby, and sang some hymns to the staff in front of the house. Darwin thrilled the boys when he gave each one a sixpence. This led Fegan to do gospel work in the area, at which time both Parslow, Darwin’s butler, and Mrs. Sales, the housekeeper, were saved. Later, Fegan wrote to Darwin to ask if he could use a building under Darwin’s care for some more gospel meetings. Darwin replied, “You have far more right to it than we have, for your services have done more for the village in a few months than all our efforts for many years. We have never been able to reclaim a drunkard, but through your services I do not know that there is a drunkard left in the village.”

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