TWICE-BORN MEN

REMARKABLE CONVERSIONS OF WELL-KNOWN MEN
IN DIFFERENT AGES AND IN VARIED RANKS OF LIFE

Compiled by HY. PICKERING

Martin Boos

A Roman Catholic Priest

MARTIN BOOS was a Romanist. In the discharge of his office as a priest he went, in 1789, to visit a woman distinguished by her humility and piety, who was dangerously ill. “I do not doubt,” said Boos, endeavour­ing to prepare her for death, “that you die calmly and happily.” “And why ?” said the woman. “Because,” replied Boos, “your life has been a continued chain of good actions.”

The woman smiled and said, “If I were to die relying for my salvation on the works which you mention, I am certain that I should be condemned; but that which makes me calm at this awful moment is that I rely on Jesus Christ my Saviour.”

“Those few words,” said Boos afterwards, “in the mouth of a dying woman who was looked upon as a saint, opened my eyes for the first time. I understood the meaning of ‘Christ for us;’ like Abraham, I saw His day. From that time I announced to others the Saviour whom I had learned to know, and there were many who rejoiced with me.”

He was used of God as the instrument of a religious awakening, and his labours were blessed in an extra­ordinary manner. After a long life of much usefulness, when he felt the end drawing near, he wrote: “Even now I feel that none shall see the Lord without having washed his robes in the Blood of the Lamb.”