The Man Who Cursed on Calvary


Part 3

He told me that he had been brought up in a very cultured but infidel home,  both his parents in England being unbelievers who scornfully rejected the Bible as a revelation from God.

He was a graduate of Cambridge University, England,  and there and afterward had identified himself with atheistic groups.
But recently he had been struck with the great change which had taken place in a man who had professed conversion some time before,  and whom he knew well.
This man had been a drunkard and a gambler, a well-known character in the city.
The change in his life had been marvellous,  and everyone who came in contact with him realized it.

"There is something there,"  the young man went on,  "for which my philosophy cannot account.
I would never have believed that so great a change could have come over anyone so suddenly.
I know it is not will power, for that man has tried over and over again to free himself from the liquor habit.
But when he became what you call a Christian, he was delivered instantly!
It has set me to thinking,  and so I have been attending your meetings,  and what I have heard and seen has convinced me that there must be some supernatural power at work.
So now I call myself an agnostic rather than an atheist."

"Have you read the Bible?" I asked.

"Not until recently.
I have read scores of books against the Bible,  but I had never taken the trouble to read the Bible itself until these things began to raise questions inside me.
I bought a copy of the Scriptures at a secondhand bookstore for twenty-five cents,  and I have been reading it every evening after going home from the meeting,  but somehow I cannot seem to make it out."