The Night Conviction Came

The year was 1913 and a young man was playing music for a dance one evening. But as he continued to play, as the evening passed on, he began, for some reason, to be moved by thoughts of Jesus and what Jesus had done by giving His life to be crucified for his sins. He could no longer take these thoughts, so he hastily left the dance.

But as he walked toward home he passed by the church where there was an all-night prayer meeting, and he knew that his father was there with others praying. The young man stepped inside and heard the reading of God’s word, and again conviction fell upon his heart, and he left again to head home.

Yet on the way, he would stop and plead with God to help him understand and have mercy on his life. Finally about 2:00 A.M. he had made it to his home and there as he went in he found his mother on her knees crying out, praying for her wayward son.

That night he cried out to God for forgiveness and salvation came into the heart of a young man that would later set the towns around the countryside and the world on fire with revival.

And the man, Duncan Campbell, became used greatly of God in Scotland and Great Britain, in many a village or city- because of those who would pray in concern for his eternal soul.

God took notice and answered greatly, and He will still do the same today for others if you will pay the price of prayer.