Recounts Lester Wilson's personal journey to faith, emphasizing the profound impact of his upbringing and the pivotal moments that led to his conversion. It details his early life, marked by a desire for worldly success in hockey, and contrasts this with the spiritual influences of his family and Sunday school. A significant turning point occurred when, after a period of wrestling with his conscience and experiencing a profound sense of God's presence, he surrendered his life to Christ. The narrative highlights the internal struggle and the eventual peace and freedom found in accepting Jesus as his best friend.
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I couldn't, young fellows, young girls, they don't have that privilege. I couldn't ask them about the privilege. Why wouldn't it be good? Without the privilege, I never could have heard. So the people didn't like the privilege get stuck. When they're lost, they're probably stuck still, I know some nice people. If you talk about me, the only time when you believe in me, you know you've been living in prison for black people. And if you have a faith mother and a faith father, you've got something to say to God for all of you.
As of, sir, not only did I have a faith mother and a faith father, I had the privilege of sitting in a Sunday school where there was a great people. The Sunday school has got to be today. What parents will be there? Where would our children be if not for Sunday school people? Where will they be? That is the right time, I will. So do you know Christ and our children's children are those children? How is that often a gravely whole with a Bible with bread? Praniality, practice, great spread of every youth, a guiding of every youth, taking the same spirit in that of God's arms, I will nothing other than on worship with heaven's truth.
That is my doctrine, that is my doctrine. No, we pray for God on earth, that we will require prayer on earth. Or that I was a player, sir. And I don't even know if I'm in law. You have to sit around and look like it is happening. Oh, it is. And I call you up, sir, ready. And you have to do. This is the Lord, sir. You have to be ready. But I had a nature that was crazy on me.
I wanted to get out of it. I did the yellow hairs on the spruce, ready to go to the spruce. I did to the spruce that I remember. But the rest I leave. Will you go to the right place? Will you describe my smithing-wrecking and all your filthy friends? Try your feet to me. Soon to become a happy mother that you can't live in. This church is merely made with remarking that there's time to present him dearly tender, the best year in the kind of care we must do, and that's the fact that I then shall use of it.
But I know a lot to flip that off. And I used to think some times about my soul, about eternity, about living God, that being somewhat of a rendition maker, No, I'm not going to let it go. No, I'm not going to get paid. I'm going to be a hockey player. I set my sights. I'm going to go to the hockey player. I'll do my performances. They're fair and easy to do. I know if I get paid, I will do easy to do. So I'm going to put out the steps of my shoes I did. I'm going to take my shoes. I'm going to take my shoes. I'm going to take my shoes.
I'm going to take my shoes. where I go. I convert your strength to anger. Granted? Yes, that is not where I am. But I can say one thing. I'll never get there. I have a mirror of strength. I feel the light. It is what I will be doing, changing your life. But I was. You know, that's what they call. It is what. Fight for a good time. I used to spend my sundry, scandalous, nice dances.
And that's what it is, master. In the night, I've been burned, shot on the way home. Grab a clock, one o'clock. As I got within the key blocks of my home, a piece of time, nothing speaks of that, but on terror the Japanese who took the train. Why did that burned the lantern? trying to come over the flat, dropping. I just used to be standing, standing under a light bulb. I didn't even expect to know any of you here. I saw a standing very many times. It was my night. It was all this good.
It was my fear. It was a raining of this cold. He was standing five weeks, five years after all. When you know the car wrapped up that hand was working with all I was practicing and I was giving all the money out of my pocket and you get out of water and you get out of it but rather frankly you're practicing of another seed so I went to that floor and you were allowing for none and deep on my soul you were my son and you were sending me to an early church I've heard she's been trained for a while.
Before the church, the church was a hot day after a night. And she looked in my head in my head, and I said to you, the feet of me, and my feet. What do you prefer, I would say to you, sir? When I see you, set my feet and lift my foot, I lift you. I am going to die. as before. Frank, my entrainment, I made the hockey team. I still am my team. So I've made first cap for the capillarians in the Ontario hockey association there is there.
Made my position without any competition. Four riders, not for my credit. that they wrote me up as a record hockey player in every third half of the evening. I should have been barring from all the hockey. Not that I was lost when I had impregnated into a very big player, but I looked up my hobby. I've always tried to do that, so everything has dropped to whatever I do. And I threw my plug in the building and walked away twenty of them in the building. And I thought, well, what I did, believe me about what I was doing. Wasn't it all I wasn't happy? Too many good brothers to talk with, poor faith, wouldn't seem to.
You can't have his lungs. You know, God, he's just talking to you. But every one time you were playing ball, and I was playing outside the gate. Grattered off the ball, opened the left heel in Carl's head, and as the left heel of an athlete received the ball, it was so close and hard, I didn't touch it, Prayer, you're scared of the second coming of Christ. I've been brought up to know that that Jesus. My blood flowed through my hands, and I didn't say the rest of you. Whether that's for me that you were saying or not, I don't know, but I knew. I knew I was the unsaved member of the family, and if the Lord would have come, I knew I would be left behind as well.
Brought up in Jesus' Whenever time went by, I was in a school year, the age of nine students. That's where the hockey players used to hang out. I was there in a night of school around twelve to nine. I was in a community part of the place that we did in the school. The preserved junction of schools in Ohio, you can heard the word of the Lord about a year ago. Spirit is quiet. Luther, when he was a priest, I put one hand on this person, and I both let you kneel for ten minutes. Very quiet, very quiet.
But I'm going to tell you the truth of your truth. You can't distract me, but I have no excuse for it. My mother said last year that he gave me to me. I would cry, and I would I would I would. Well, this night I was in the chamber. Forever after nine tones, I would a couple of days, I look up to the cross and something says, you've got to go home. Well, I've got home. Do you follow that or do you come straight for any good afternoon? You better go home. I say, well, I have heard of people walking through the mountains, but when they went home you were stuck in the water, maybe you were a circus man. I told you it was probably a better go.
But I hung on my tomb and started home. I'm afraid of growing in those five graves by custom, I'll turn almost unconsciously in the front yard. If I wrapped up the raiment, well, when I opened the door, I heard my mother talk. Well, I quietly told the girl that I stood inside with my hands in her hand. My mother had just come home from the meeting. And she was talking to my brother, my fifth brother, Reggie, two years my dinner. It was doing the homework in the first room. Mother was telling me that he wasn't ready when he had kids coming.
But she was telling him of that story. And he told me, and he didn't know I was finding any of those two or nine people in the lobby because there was a door between the front door and another door and two front rooms. I stood there listening almost nearly my death years and years old I was there. And I listened. I listened to a squirrely mother's womb. By the way, six years later, when I was in North Carolina preaching, I was there in St. Petersburg, Virginia on the road to Canada, and I heard that George Duncan was having meetings with Peterborough. And so strange enough, we stopped at the home of Mr.
Ben Campbell, and he should be there, but Mr. George Duncan. right in the hole. That is what it is. And so we were happy to meet one another, and we hadn't seen you. We had heard that I was saved, the end of this campaign, but I was never there. So we were very happy to see you, the more that I was out in the dancing. And so, Mr. God, the more than you would like to know what it was that brought me to the origin. Yes, you could not be there, isn't it? I sat in that room, then came his own, and he was like a sinner, and I pulled him away. He said, that's what it is with me.
He said, that lady just lived at the street here, as I told him. He said, I didn't see you. I had forgotten where the lady was, but here I was on the very street, telling him six years later, the story he told that night of death, and it was laid by my mother's mother. and by the Spirit of Galatians and the Holy Ghost. He said, But I have a little thing to do with the Holy Ghost in the Holy Ghost in the Holy Ghost in the Holy Ghost in the Holy Ghost of Galatians. He said, I guess, that I thought, and had a dream to use the word of Galatians in the Holy Spirit to come in the Holy Ghost to walk out of it and try and stop it.
He said, I would only Now down the side of the fence, there are a few remarks about the weather and so on. But I will be listening to the lady, me and Katie. I will be a happy little. But he said after a few remarks, I was meant to open my body and I said, Well, that's me. I'm looking out of the way. He put a hand out to me for a little bit of time. He put a hand out to a little bit of him. Then I was on what person was that I didn't understand. I said, what? He said, I broke down. Believe, I didn't pray for you in order to be nice.
Believe, or believe. Believe, or believe. Believe, that I meant to believe I never had anything like that happen in my life for me. And if you would ask, is this something? When I was a girl waiting in my dream, I would then dream. that is yours to confess me. And God will see you, who has an under-conviction to you. Pray to you for that thing will be all in my heart for a few nights. When God the Holy Spirit is providing with you, proving with me to come to Christ, and by the voice of faith, don't you do it. You're young, you're popular, you're a pastor, you've got a great future.
Go forth by becoming a Christian. Have a good time. Twenty of time, and you grow, that is the blessing of religion. But if you don't know your family or your family, you know, I wonder what you think. One night, I got saved, got saved for you. I knew I could get saved. You know, I didn't want to get saved. Finally, she said, I grow dark. God, be alone. Take it straight from me. I'm not going to get there. I'm going to get there. I'm going to get there.
And Mr. Button, I haven't had an anxious thought for that reason. So I'll put you in my ear. And this time now, I'm doing so. And I plead you with me, Mr. Button. So be my child, that I hold you in one piece, in one piece, in one piece, in one place, in that moment, in that moment, the same time you have made the same time that I am blessed. And what I left, that being that way, is that you have the same time now.
After saying, he told me that I was in shock, and after calling my mother, he was telling my brother, in the front room, that I stood inside the front room with him. How many a time my mother had told me that test to me? I confess to you, if you did not. Now then, God says, my spirit shall not allow you to try this. Oh, I wish, that kind is my request. I was going to walk you through the evening. And as the mother finished that shortly, I had hurried right up to my knees.
For a few weeks, I was under a week from this year's school. The roar of how I thought it. I remember the Friday night, the bird eye was heard in the Sunday night, I ran from that little church building about three blocks. All I needed are saying to you. But I was in the couple of weeks with you. And I went in, I said to the couple of boys, come on. Take them to you. I played with one of these. And they were five, six, three months. I played one day. That's what I remember right. I hardly got to you. I couldn't find some place. And I'm not confused. I blew my fifteen feet back down the road. I said, I said, good night I had a group of young ladies that is young, beautiful girl, beautiful girl, beautiful girl.
I said, you know me, you go to church, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, and that all the truth should be to be good, And it shows you on the go, you can attest that you are at the end of the world. And me under good condition is good. If I were to tell you that that was the time I was miserable, I would say to you that you were in that night. I sat and I looked at you. I sat and I looked at you. I wouldn't look at that. I looked down. That is the thing. What's wrong with you? I have a hand that is to do.
I took him home, then I went to get him home while I came home. He got to be good. And it was hard for me to go and get on. He was like, I sit on the street corner. And I will not go, I will not. I will not. I will not, I will not. I tried to go and make a duty with the Lord. I said, Lord, when you go to it, bring it. I laughed a little bit of money, when you go and make a big pall, and then I'll get paid more. That was worse.
The Lord got no remit to any duty in that time. I don't care. The next morning I got up. I went over to the church and told you, where you used to go on Sundays, play the dice, throw it there, throw it there, throw it in the air, throw the dice in the grave, and throw it at you. You know, two or four times I was about to reach over and take away the right, all except when you reach up to the right, that's the very last one. Two or four times I had my money in my hand, about to drop a crown. That's where the Lord said, be good.
That's where it lasts for. He's good. I've been back before. I've been fresh. I've been back. I've spent happy all morning taking part with you properly. I've been home. That afternoon I went out to the railroad tracks. I used to go Sunday afternoon to where it was good. I never packed in. So it didn't. It was a good time to walk in the parking lot. I just walked along the stairs, looking up. At four o'clock I was told Mr. that I just couldn't stand any longer. I would only agree. One of the friends with Barry Sarno, he was the other great champion at that time.
He and I were buddies. He knew that he got this. Frank was giving his power away. I was in the front of him. He put a card today on the window up there, that time. Frank was looking on his car and he'd say, well, We have some great time in this family. We go to Woodstock and we ran talking about the branches that were coming up. Sam and I used to get up together. I keep an open one day. I couldn't say, yes, we have a great time. We're here. That's what we kept saying to me. We don't care what is any more of us. We need you for that time in this time. You've got great time in this place.
You've got great time in this place in this place. After turning around for about an hour, I walked here. It was the house you could go five o'clock, maybe quarter after five. But I ended the house, I said, Mother. I wanted her to have something ready for you. Why, my friend, I wanted her to speak to you. I was going to ask you what I thought to you. You went to have your feet with me, and I was I will go with the child and not in the world, and it will be great. When I was walking down the street, I was going to church. I didn't give her that smile or I didn't give her that smile in anything.
But this night when I said to the couple ready, I had to go to church with one of those people. Or I could all miss you now. Or at least what she was in love. And long last, when I said to her, two times, who was to say a couple around the church? Thank you, ladies. I said, oh, the last were hundred when he served it, and the first one up. Up in Canada, oftentimes the preacher stood at the door. I tell you, he got out without getting mailed. In other words, the preacher said, an earlier search of our hand, and are you saved? Do you learn again?
Well, the preacher said, I'm never here. So I slipped in just by then the song said, if you go there, my name proves that scripture said, O men, as I was praying, I was wrong. Whereas this night and how I couldn't get up, finished preaching, started singing, and then the meeting was dismissed. I got up and I walked around behind me, and I asked you and I stood there, repeating at five in time. Mother and Dad always sat down to talk of the little church. And I called him coming up, the last one to me I, and he never looked up and saw me.
There he came, spoke to Christ, and I knew what he was. He was very sick of his own. I found out later I was asked, he said, that's what I'm going to say. He didn't see what I do as he went. When I saw mother talk to Dad, I would eat that good and hurt. I was in power away from the little church until I heard footsteps coming rapidly behind me. Then my father put his hand in my shoes for a time. He was drawn to me with you. I was rather good at that time. I've been informed of all of you.
I've written to you a long time. Oh, my Lord, you've got it at home. You've got to be with you. You've written it up. You've made it to me. No, I'm going to join the ball. You got to the turner, I fully intended. Seven nights, you're going to join the game, but seven nights, you're leading out this way. You know, it's after the game. You got down to another block, and father began speaking to me, and I tried to ask him, and knocked me. I said, I'm going to you. You got to the man that hoped I'm going around as well, and doing the turn of the game. You're going to join me now. You got to the turn, you've got to turn the right, I think one of you got there was going to be.
I'll turn you up. You got down and I'd keep going. There was a group of Christians standing on the ground under the lampshade. Chalkers had been commuting that night. One of them had picked their children. Man, about eighty-three years of age, now I've taught you, man, to be my old mother. There was no room at the confidant of the little child. He was standing talking to these Christians under the lampshade, and his father said, Ask me if you like Mr. Taylor to talk to you. I said, no, I wouldn't. And with that, I cut that across for long. I wasn't going to walk to the table. All the minutes were gone. And he stepped up to the Mr.
Taylor, and I broke my mind about half the rest of his. But I heard someone coming, and Mr. Taylor said, Master, give me a minute, just a minute. And I stopped, or I respected Mr. Taylor. You could not have got to worry me by my face. He looked me right in the eyes of him. He dropped me with me and I dropped my head and I was with him. But he said, close to him. That's the fact that he knew about. He said, when you go home tonight, he just pray and come to me in my office tomorrow morning and tell me that you have prayed about me. And I thought that he said, Do you see?
Do you behold me in this way, and come to me in my afternoon morning's trap? Can you do that for me that night? How could I wait for you, Andrew? And that was the first time I did. So let me go. I met a car that came up and walked on, went into the house. I sat down in the kitchen. Car was out beside me. And I was moving against the toilet. for a third week in Christ. Now that said, my prayer, you know your lost person. Yes, Father, I knew that. You thought you were. You know, you died, you thought you were.
Yes, I was. I was. I was. I was. You were. You were. You were. You were. You were. You were. You were. You were. You were. You were. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. You were there. I'm living there, you know that person, you are. I know that one, sir. If I don't see you, sir, all you have to do is you're the only one. You're the only person. You're the only person. You're the only person. What you're the only person. Let them go the hiding, up into the land of the heaven.
Let them sing the bull that's the earth, or another soul to you. My boy, walking away from me. I looked up at the foot of last commandment. As I turned to you to me, he said, I believe it. And my friend, here it is. I said, Father. Amen. The moment I did, he did, he did it to my little heart. And I turned to him and I said, Dad, I said, Dad, Father and I stood to our feet. Mother who had been looking on in witness, he stood tall. And the two of us locked arms around each other's nest and sang our first two together.
Oh, happy day, that flipped my head. And beating my fingers and my jaw. All the way was playing half with God. Telegraphed you, all of us. Happy day, when peace of God. My friend, I will say, at least remain what never is. Where is it? Where is the name of one of you? That night, without a drop, I will be sweet. Where I will show him. I don't know if I could be sweet because I was on written books.
Well, this night I will show him. I don't know. I'm free forever. If I was dead, then all my sins are good. I'm good. I'm good. It was nothing I was more true than my life. But I was free, didn't I? But I remember that when it was lost, I told the most. Only if I was moving to Jesus my best friend. I said, My name? Father, Lord, to the last people who should be told that story, I'm having no way to receive it. I've only got three fingers.
I admit, as long as you know that I am so happy, I thank you. This would mean that I am praise God and praise God. Whatever you do now will be of heaven, be of heaven, be of heaven. And you have another time to go through it. How would I say, did I decide to tell you the meaning? No, I didn't. Did I decide to join with you? No, I didn't. No, I didn't. I was in our home. Yes. Did I decide to get baptized? No, I didn't. What home did I do to be saved?
I seek my place and walk with me through it. the whole thing. Pray that I believe in Christ every day. I feel without judgment in God. That I do. I know you. Go to that prayer. I know you do that prayer. And I do, I don't know you. I do. And so God knows. I'll check with the Lord Jesus. That's my role in such a prayer. You know, you pray that week. I'll tell you what is behind that confessing of sin, that confessing of sin, that confessing of sin, that confessing of sin. For the more there is a conscience that I will be lost.
For the more there is a conscience that I will tempt it to save myself. And for the more there will be unknown to you my heart to be saved. For the more there will be my heart to be saved. And for the more. with a languor my heart be saved. That's why I confess Christ. And then you confess Christ with that background and let it be redeemed with me. I wonder if you know that you're lost. And if you can say this, sir, and that God loves you, right, God, can you say tonight the son of God who never knew who groaned and slept in me.
Why did I accept Christ? Not to go to hell? He was not in the good year. In order to go to heaven? Of course not, he didn't. But why did I leave except for him? He passed by the temple, and I walked away. I wanted satisfied, and I found his flatness and his flatness. Will he have my exposure? Why are you happy, why? Will you have my treasure? He will heal your heart. Will you have my treasure? Do you heal your heart, why? Will you take my treasure?
Yes. I have a peace with this calm of the earth. I have peace with a friend to the throne of the moon. My friend to the moon is a part of the moon. Well, but I knew you were given to me. I could ask you the question, my father asked me, for you asked God. Friend, if you could return after that, I would. Out of the frame and body of heart, you would be told right where you are, yes, I asked you. Run to the wagon to your face. Let the rain take care of the hiding, go through to the cross of heaven.
Let me show you a bird, I say. Or another, save you. What do you do, I say? You will say, yes. I, sir. I, sir. I'll let the name of my heart, yes. God help you, Lord. What does it do? He says, Blessed one, he saved me. He will save you. He will make you happy. As he knows you. He will make you happy. He will make you happy. For so it was that we never knew and gave the answer when we saw it with him. Let me know. I will or I won't. I do or I don't.
Let it be. It's all heaven to say, I'm his person. I am his. Amen. Amen. Our heavenly father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ is going to devise happiness. We are progressing upon our grace. For those who know not all those reasons, for ever the groundless mental decisions are in tune with you. For in our spiritual consciousness, and if we will disclose it to all, we will put our heart into it. We ask it for the Lord Jesus Christ to be with you. A hundred thirty-eight, I have the only room for Jesus.
You who bore your Lord with me, I have not been answered with me. A hundred and forty-eight, I am with you. A hundred and forty-eight, I am with you.