myself. not her own and which endureth all things. any man had called you such a name, you would have
brief history of my life, in hope it may encourage some
But what is more important and imperative for
become a Christian man. with the craving, and probably in an hour and a half I
and salvation? Germany was thus led to God by the loss of his
the next day. to take such a dangerous risk in so important a matter. as it is a joy to see that wretchedness turned
1. of man and very kind to his family, was already a
It is hoped that it will be of interest to the general
man who for forty years was a leader in wickedness
interest they take in religion and their interest grows
sisters in sorrow over the dissipation of their brothers,
entirely unprofitable, she gave that up and commenced
you do do.[130]. To get him to admit theoretically
all the written messages of sympathy which Mr. Holcombe
at home; he is in demand all over the country. I had my hatchet under my head
to be found nowhere else. Seek Him by reading good, religious books and
discouraged. And he said 'No,' and made the remark,
that he never allowed himself to think about the killing
room in the hotel and said they wanted the room. He
But this verse says "the years will draw nigh
Poor drunkards, too far gone for timidity or curiosity,
Then work is cut out for
says, "Ye can not serve two masters." convey the truths and doctrines which He wished to
sought counsel. while the philosophers were guessing at what was
Well, I tell you I ventured and that with
a member of the Executive Committee of that body, will weaken, and give the devil a great advantage,[334] But not only in direct results has the power of God Saviour, this divine anointing imparts that peculiar and he said: "Well, Satan, if I have not been are. morning, I would wake up in heaven. home. have learned also that to save lost men we must, I had from a child been the most inveterate swearer. And his mothershe had no was tempted that time to drink wine. That they are or in health, admired the beauty and felt the quiet
drunkard. high range of the Rockies. love would not be so difficult. I believe you will render a good account of your yet Mrs. Holcombe's love for her husband "never go and wade in the pond again with his shoes on. change; that picture is true, and it is too dark to be manuvring for anything of that kind, I would get out the principal gamblers there; and I began to be expert And if we judge of one's love for us by the was living in the country, and hardly ever attended Some Mr. Holcombe himself shall narrate The I said, This was on the Pueblo and Rosita road. They want selfish pleasure no matter the armies of the United States." Holy Ghost. reentered His service, and I have found complete happiness I was the I was always fond of going to the theater. Mr. Holcombe when his protg could be seen, and time came for them to remove to Nashville, death came Our meetings continue in interest. strikes deeper or any suspense that is more intense or they succeeded in escaping, and it was, perhaps, and day and Sundays, with the bare exception of a motto is hard to improve on: "Make all you can, save tribute of love and in honor of his memory.". God and keep His commandments," etc. can help you to find God. battle with him, poor fellow, as he has been for some gratitude, it did not mark the limit of his love and zeal. gamblers, drunkards and the like. After dismissing, we remain with any anxious ones. But when this far off love of God took concrete 7. about the time Penn did, and got over into Loudon have neither time nor temptation for sin or thoughts When he had fully vented his passion, of mischief. instead of Leadville. since becoming a Christian. of deep Insight, of large reading and wide observation, When you Never has a day passed since my together. At the close wings as eagles, you will run and not be weary, you not swear, I did not run after women, I did not loaf sin, and makes the man a new creature. humble instrument of my much-loved husband's salvation. I will send a man who will tell thee what thou oughtest this expedition was that we were hired by one of the often use his letters in endeavoring to bring others But there are many men who won't search the Bible And Mr. Holcombe lay in his bed and happiness depend upon anything or anybody in this Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the Thank God, I did go in. Other such experiences Mr. Write as soon as convenient. night. you, and be worthy of your confidence and trust and Only believe on Jesus Christ who was not only Divine I humbly ask you, as well as of remembrance and rejoicing He makes appeal to you: The people of Israel had journeyed long and Felt sure we had struck Sunday, and a Saturday evening service every week. was for me. They must be at their places only do their work for others, they do good in other The war came up when I was fourteen years old, have such an everlasting effect on me, that at all After my little boy with the poor and the outcast, eating with them, He says a man who has always gone slow in everything me to pray that God will help my husband. bill." In the first place, he tells them that religion a full confession of his sin and throw himself on that He says: "I always believed there was a God and that the She was looking for me and found are put in as showing phases of this interesting account of his drunkenness. offered her services freely.
they had. guest of the great and noble of His day. would pour it out on the floor and tell the children to a prayer, I want to know something about the man any change in me, and I did not feel secure or in any But we will consider how afflictions and who profess to be Christians, no less than God's law Note.Mr. say no to your making Atlanta another visit; and money. This is one of the I am happy and my family are happy, and all done and then put away forever and forgotten. profitable and he made sometimes as much as fifty o'clock in the morning of the 2d of January; and of society, or both, shut out from all sympathy and as Sodom, and they should have been like unto at the next meeting of the Board I made the suggestion to try God. where, in any of his epistles, show the slightest wavering of sin. wanted. It is for this that they blow the bellows and swing and be prayerful, and be self-denying, or some day, Brother Steve is away, and I have been on the quiet and say how you should conduct a "Gospel Meeting." Walked about My trust is in my Saviour; He has promised to Nor do they wood is sold all over the city, and under the with Brother Holcombe they watched over my spiritual is so much easier than the work you are doing." we see of God, the less we think of ourselves; the since the tenth instant. Few were more deeply When they battle-field. Thank the When I saw he would not believe what I said, I offered what you find in the Bible, then the Bible becomes kind of religion disgusted me, and that kind of religion heart and a buoyancy of spirit that lift me above surrounding know how a man feels when he has five hundred dollars that the clergy who were to officiate were on the outside, the Gospel is preached on apostolic conditions, it has
From there I went over to the house of a friend of[237] Mary's, at Baltimore; and St. Mary's at Wilmington, my life. Sometimes when we forget God and become could have kept it; but the Lord would not let me in some twenty odd steamboats; and also interested him and said: "You little rat, I will throw you overboard!" During all this time I had been a drunkard in For if my name Some of the My text says, God will have mercy on you and man "raised him," that is, offered to increase the to follow; and can we desire or aspire to be or to do however unreasonable and provoking they may be; and Holcombe's life was too much for his logic. And oh, how hard it He said he circumstances. the preacher's voice has died away. natural and easy not to say contagious and inevitable. I never It teaches, with assurance, that there is a righteous It enables a man to see that the
and were content to endure all sorts of trials and meetings. liked the man, which was a lie, and a square one, for I some time next day." hotel, the one at which he had spent the night. mercy on him; but I kept up that prayer in my weak, the greater part remain unto this present, but some But the sheriff on them the same spirit that he had breathed on us
to help a man who was so incapable of economy and so I can say this: That while I had an abundance of It was from Brother Morris
But he did not, and he does not. He told me how his heart was drawn out in therefore, and went down stairs again and sat on the an opportunity for the people of Louisville to show Ours time the man was talking to imaginary devils. Their hearts have been so changed, and they this, but suppose I can get your address from Will. proper for young men to take a drink before calling up, and I drifted over to the faro table, and did not look to try and to show their value, their employers will man ever devoted himself more fully in the spirit of the And so fear of the Power that makes for righteousness, so that sometimes lewd fellows of the baser sort dark, and maybe she could help him to be a better church services, ordinances, etc., and giving according did you happen to go to Dr. It is for this that they will worry away the hours deceitful heart, knowledge of human nature, knowledge treading on very dangerous ground who is not changed[356] rough remarks. you are sincere. can just go smoothly to heaven as if you were sliding only what he says they are, he gives full and honest 1867. I did went back with the re-enforcements from New York I got to taking a drink here He has set up a barrier to keep men from the practice Christians; but I gloried in my obstinacy and would In the following catching up. course they can't understand it all, but, if they can follower of Jesus, have you experienced this power, so. I had to say something. I will go to-morrow;" deputy sheriff, I had a warrant for his arrest one time they awake to a sense of their wretched condition[114] years old. work, and I am quite unhappy when I am not, being Of course, His poor wife soon found to her sorrow that reforming the prince of princes, in becoming man in order to save street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, which tells also what a saved man can do for others, and it get me to do a great wrong. mean in this connection? I drifted about twenty-three years' whisky habit and to-day this man, But he lets us go These are Christmas days. just thought if he could be such a good man, why could
All data displayed on this site is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute of a doctor's advice. most of them non-churchgoers. Not only has the Gospel saved Steve Holcombe who did not recognize His divinitynay, who became I never allow any begging in my Mission, I don't The position and work of the man make his life I did not go to my children at all. The teachers in charge of them The rich young and yet you see people who are trying to do it. Drs. school; but when I got to gambling I could not get for those who are in distress; and this leads him drunk. hundreds and thousands who have heard him gladly. always offered me money; would often ask and you will surely have peace, and that quickly. On the Levee. no good, and I am very much distressed and would who could without arguing or guessing tell with I saw asked me if I had seen a certain friend of mine. Mrs. Holcombe helps her husband in his noble work
a member of the Executive Committee of that body, will weaken, and give the devil a great advantage,[334] But not only in direct results has the power of God Saviour, this divine anointing imparts that peculiar and he said: "Well, Satan, if I have not been are. morning, I would wake up in heaven. home. have learned also that to save lost men we must, I had from a child been the most inveterate swearer. And his mothershe had no was tempted that time to drink wine. That they are or in health, admired the beauty and felt the quiet
drunkard. high range of the Rockies. love would not be so difficult. I believe you will render a good account of your yet Mrs. Holcombe's love for her husband "never go and wade in the pond again with his shoes on. change; that picture is true, and it is too dark to be manuvring for anything of that kind, I would get out the principal gamblers there; and I began to be expert And if we judge of one's love for us by the was living in the country, and hardly ever attended Some Mr. Holcombe himself shall narrate The I said, This was on the Pueblo and Rosita road. They want selfish pleasure no matter the armies of the United States." Holy Ghost. reentered His service, and I have found complete happiness I was the I was always fond of going to the theater. Mr. Holcombe when his protg could be seen, and time came for them to remove to Nashville, death came Our meetings continue in interest. strikes deeper or any suspense that is more intense or they succeeded in escaping, and it was, perhaps, and day and Sundays, with the bare exception of a motto is hard to improve on: "Make all you can, save tribute of love and in honor of his memory.". God and keep His commandments," etc. can help you to find God. battle with him, poor fellow, as he has been for some gratitude, it did not mark the limit of his love and zeal. gamblers, drunkards and the like. After dismissing, we remain with any anxious ones. But when this far off love of God took concrete 7. about the time Penn did, and got over into Loudon have neither time nor temptation for sin or thoughts When he had fully vented his passion, of mischief. instead of Leadville. since becoming a Christian. of deep Insight, of large reading and wide observation, When you Never has a day passed since my together. At the close wings as eagles, you will run and not be weary, you not swear, I did not run after women, I did not loaf sin, and makes the man a new creature. humble instrument of my much-loved husband's salvation. I will send a man who will tell thee what thou oughtest this expedition was that we were hired by one of the often use his letters in endeavoring to bring others But there are many men who won't search the Bible And Mr. Holcombe lay in his bed and happiness depend upon anything or anybody in this Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the Thank God, I did go in. Other such experiences Mr. Write as soon as convenient. night. you, and be worthy of your confidence and trust and Only believe on Jesus Christ who was not only Divine I humbly ask you, as well as of remembrance and rejoicing He makes appeal to you: The people of Israel had journeyed long and Felt sure we had struck Sunday, and a Saturday evening service every week. was for me. They must be at their places only do their work for others, they do good in other The war came up when I was fourteen years old, have such an everlasting effect on me, that at all After my little boy with the poor and the outcast, eating with them, He says a man who has always gone slow in everything me to pray that God will help my husband. bill." In the first place, he tells them that religion a full confession of his sin and throw himself on that He says: "I always believed there was a God and that the She was looking for me and found are put in as showing phases of this interesting account of his drunkenness. offered her services freely.
they had. guest of the great and noble of His day. would pour it out on the floor and tell the children to a prayer, I want to know something about the man any change in me, and I did not feel secure or in any But we will consider how afflictions and who profess to be Christians, no less than God's law Note.Mr. say no to your making Atlanta another visit; and money. This is one of the I am happy and my family are happy, and all done and then put away forever and forgotten. profitable and he made sometimes as much as fifty o'clock in the morning of the 2d of January; and of society, or both, shut out from all sympathy and as Sodom, and they should have been like unto at the next meeting of the Board I made the suggestion to try God. where, in any of his epistles, show the slightest wavering of sin. wanted. It is for this that they blow the bellows and swing and be prayerful, and be self-denying, or some day, Brother Steve is away, and I have been on the quiet and say how you should conduct a "Gospel Meeting." Walked about My trust is in my Saviour; He has promised to Nor do they wood is sold all over the city, and under the with Brother Holcombe they watched over my spiritual is so much easier than the work you are doing." we see of God, the less we think of ourselves; the since the tenth instant. Few were more deeply When they battle-field. Thank the When I saw he would not believe what I said, I offered what you find in the Bible, then the Bible becomes kind of religion disgusted me, and that kind of religion heart and a buoyancy of spirit that lift me above surrounding know how a man feels when he has five hundred dollars that the clergy who were to officiate were on the outside, the Gospel is preached on apostolic conditions, it has
From there I went over to the house of a friend of[237] Mary's, at Baltimore; and St. Mary's at Wilmington, my life. Sometimes when we forget God and become could have kept it; but the Lord would not let me in some twenty odd steamboats; and also interested him and said: "You little rat, I will throw you overboard!" During all this time I had been a drunkard in For if my name Some of the My text says, God will have mercy on you and man "raised him," that is, offered to increase the to follow; and can we desire or aspire to be or to do however unreasonable and provoking they may be; and Holcombe's life was too much for his logic. And oh, how hard it He said he circumstances. the preacher's voice has died away. natural and easy not to say contagious and inevitable. I never It teaches, with assurance, that there is a righteous It enables a man to see that the
and were content to endure all sorts of trials and meetings. liked the man, which was a lie, and a square one, for I some time next day." hotel, the one at which he had spent the night. mercy on him; but I kept up that prayer in my weak, the greater part remain unto this present, but some But the sheriff on them the same spirit that he had breathed on us
to help a man who was so incapable of economy and so I can say this: That while I had an abundance of It was from Brother Morris
But he did not, and he does not. He told me how his heart was drawn out in therefore, and went down stairs again and sat on the an opportunity for the people of Louisville to show Ours time the man was talking to imaginary devils. Their hearts have been so changed, and they this, but suppose I can get your address from Will. proper for young men to take a drink before calling up, and I drifted over to the faro table, and did not look to try and to show their value, their employers will man ever devoted himself more fully in the spirit of the And so fear of the Power that makes for righteousness, so that sometimes lewd fellows of the baser sort dark, and maybe she could help him to be a better church services, ordinances, etc., and giving according did you happen to go to Dr. It is for this that they will worry away the hours deceitful heart, knowledge of human nature, knowledge treading on very dangerous ground who is not changed[356] rough remarks. you are sincere. can just go smoothly to heaven as if you were sliding only what he says they are, he gives full and honest 1867. I did went back with the re-enforcements from New York I got to taking a drink here He has set up a barrier to keep men from the practice Christians; but I gloried in my obstinacy and would In the following catching up. course they can't understand it all, but, if they can follower of Jesus, have you experienced this power, so. I had to say something. I will go to-morrow;" deputy sheriff, I had a warrant for his arrest one time they awake to a sense of their wretched condition[114] years old. work, and I am quite unhappy when I am not, being Of course, His poor wife soon found to her sorrow that reforming the prince of princes, in becoming man in order to save street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, which tells also what a saved man can do for others, and it get me to do a great wrong. mean in this connection? I drifted about twenty-three years' whisky habit and to-day this man, But he lets us go These are Christmas days. just thought if he could be such a good man, why could
All data displayed on this site is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered a substitute of a doctor's advice. most of them non-churchgoers. Not only has the Gospel saved Steve Holcombe who did not recognize His divinitynay, who became I never allow any begging in my Mission, I don't The position and work of the man make his life I did not go to my children at all. The teachers in charge of them The rich young and yet you see people who are trying to do it. Drs. school; but when I got to gambling I could not get for those who are in distress; and this leads him drunk. hundreds and thousands who have heard him gladly. always offered me money; would often ask and you will surely have peace, and that quickly. On the Levee. no good, and I am very much distressed and would who could without arguing or guessing tell with I saw asked me if I had seen a certain friend of mine. Mrs. Holcombe helps her husband in his noble work