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Chapter 6 -
Stormy Wind Fulfilling his Word -
From There Go the Ships
by George Shirley

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painting up the sky, and all was peaceful and quiet. The discussion began and continued for some time, when he found he was in the hands of an abler man than he had ever met before, and that some of his opinions were very much shaken. On the next Sunday, when he had driven his niece to her chapel, he thought he would just go round to Orange Street and hear this young man. They were singing the hymn before the sermon when Mr. Griffin saw him come in. He was preaching; a course of sermons on the

 
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eighth chapter of Romans, and knowing how infidels ridiculed those doctrines, wished he had any other subject to preach upon. "No," thought he, "I will preach it," and he did; and under God's blessing there came another influence "like a wind," that changed his whole life to one of devotion to that Saviour he had before rejected. Under a sermon by Mr. Griffin on Abraham leaving his home and friends, he was led to offer his services to the London Missionary Society, to take out the missionaries to Tahiti in the ship Duff, and to take a cargo suitable for disposal, so as to pay the expense of the voyage.

What a remarkable change of wind, to lead to such an issue. It was in the calm of the evening hours that Nicodemus came to Jesus to question Him upon the truths He had been preaching about, and Jesus spoke to him about the operation of the Holy Spirit as the "wind." We hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh nor whither it goeth. We see the effects of the wind, sometimes uprooting majestic oaks, levelling great buildings, piling the waters of the ocean in heaps,

© Peter Smith 2009