William Haslam (1817-1905), an Anglo-Catholic vicar, on hearing many conversion testimonies, came under deep conviction. He felt he could no longer preach. “The thought came to me that I would go to church and read the morning prayers and after that dismiss the people…The psalms and hymns were especially applicable to my case…So I gave out my text: ‘What think ye of Christ?’ Something was telling me, ‘You are no better than the Pharisees. You do not believe that He has come to save you.’ I do not remember all I said, but a wonderful light and joy came into my soul. I was seeing what the Pharisees did not. All of a sudden a local preacher, who happened to be there, stood up and shouted, ‘The parson is converted! Hallelujah!’ His voice was lost in the shouts and praises of three or four hundred…I joined in the outburst of praise; and to make it more orderly, I gave out the Doxology and the people sang it with heart and voice, over and over again.”
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