TWICE-BORN MEN
REMARKABLE CONVERSIONS OF WELL-KNOWN MEN
IN DIFFERENT AGES AND IN VARIED RANKS OF LIFE
Compiled by HY. PICKERING
A Sturdy Scottish Pioneer
DONALD ROSS, pioneer evangelist, was born in the Scottish Highlands. At the age of fifteen he was brought to a knowledge of the soul-saving truth of the Gospel. Here is the story of what he described as “a plain statement of an old-fashioned conversion,” written by himself :
“I was saved in Inchdown, Roskeen, Ross-shire, about four or five weeks over my fifteenth year. I was awakened through the illness of a Mr. Duncan, and received Christ as my own personal Saviour in the Young Plantation, Knocknavez, through that verse, John 18. 8, “If ye seek Me, let these go their way,” about 5.30 p.m. on a Thursday in March; saw, and understood, and believed in Christ as my own Substitute for the first time in my life, and at once, that very afternoon, began to preach Christ to others as the only Saviour. From the moment I was saved my thoughts always were: ‘Cannot I do something here and now for the honour of Him who redeemed me, and tot the poor, perishing world around me.”
Mr. Ross was “instant in season, out of season,” in warning the unsaved of coining wrath and judgment, and pointing them to Christ, the sinner’s refuge. In 1876 he went to America, where, with the exception of two or three visits to his native land, he continued to labour till called home on 13th February, 1903.
Near the end he said, “1 will be 80 in February, and if I had other 80 before me I’d spend them in Gospel work.”