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TESTIMONY OF A VOLUNTEER
By MR. HENRY SINGER of Toronto
WHENEVER I come before an audience of American Chris-
tians, I feel that I am a native of this country. Some of
you may say: "Well, you don’t look like it." I want to
tell you, dear friends, originally I was born in Russia; or, rather,
in Russian-Poland; and in religion I was a Jew, and after I came
to this country I was born again. I gave up Judaism before I became
a Christian. I came over to this country when I was a young man
and attended a good many of the so-called socialist and anarchist
meetings. I want to tell you this, that you may know what the
devil has going on while the Church is sleeping. The devil is spread-
ing all these terrible things among the foreigners, among the people
of these Slavic races. I belonged to one of those meetings, but I
went to a meeting in Boston one time, in a Jewish mission. There
was a man preaching the Gospel there who was not a Jew. I want
you to understand, dear friends, that what some people say about
your not being able to preach to the Jews unless you are a Jew is
not true at all. This preacher was the late Dr. A. J. Gordon. He
preached from the ninth chapter of Isaiah, the sixth verse: "For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace." The result of that meeting was that I found out I was
wrong, and thank God I did find it out. Well, that meeting resulted
in my being born again, and I think I have a right to call myself an
American, because I was born again here.
Making Ready for Russia
I am not a prophet, neither am I the son of a prophet, but I have
been doing some work among the Jewish people in Toronto, and I
have told my people there that there are no better people than the
Russians. My son went away to the front three years ago, and
for twenty-three years we have never closed a year with even a
cent of debt. During the last years the Lord has been giving us
more than we have used, and so we are going to extend the work."
when he went I said to my committee: "I have worked in Toronto
for twenty-three years. We have never closed a year with even
a cent of debt. During the last years the Lord has been giving us
more than we. have used, and so we are going to extend the work."
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