The Godly Irishman
Dr. Harry A. Ironside told of visiting a godly Irishman,
Andrew Frazer, who had come to southern California to
recover from a serious illness. Though quite weak, he opened
his worn Bible and began expounding the deep truths of God
in a way that Ironside had never heard before. Ironside was
so moved by Frazer's words that he asked him, "Where did you
get these things? Could you tell me where I could find a
book that would open them up to me? Did you learn them in
some seminary or college?" The sickly man gave an answer
that Ironside said he would never forget.
"My dear young man, I learned these things on my knees on
the mud floor of a little sod cottage in the north of
Ireland. There with my open Bible before me I used to kneel
for hours at a time and ask the Spirit of God to reveal
Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart. He
taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever
could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the
world."
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