TWICE-BORN MEN

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

Compiled by HY. PICKERING

A Member of the House of Morley

SAMUEL MORLEY, M.P., member of the firm of  I. & R. Morley, Wood St., known world-wide, used to walk from Hackney to Wood Street, City, every morn­ing with his father. Samuel had the greatest love and admiration for his parents. Their piety and godliness bore a great part in forming his character. And, moreover, the home was open to all Nonconformist ministers, and with them Samuel greatly enjoyed intercourse.

The most definite intimation concerning the conversion of Samuel Morley is of a Sunday morning in the Old Weigh House Chapel, when Mr. James Parsons was preaching, young Morley listening, and from that time forth openly professed his faith as a Christian man, and witnessed a good confession to his life’s end.

Of the Bible he said: “The Bible is the light and life of any dwelling. The home life of the country owes every­thing that is pure and virtuous to the Word of God.” To one, struggling with difficulties, he writes: “There is within your reach, and easy of comprehension without the aid of any human teacher, a safe and precious guide—GOD ‘S WORD.”