Show Y R 3 orn r a 1 BY Y CLINT Almost Persuaded A GOJ Gospel tl Singer W Waifs Waitt for a tI Tram One Sunday Bundey In the earl early 1870 a lone Ion man stepped from a train In a small mall Eastern town HU Ins name was wai P Philip Dili DU After twenty years year of Impoverishment and heart heartbreaking work he had risen to the front ranks ranka of Americas America's gospel singers Inger and hymn composers composer Deeply religious lilies Bliss never missed mIlled an anop opo oD to attend church lIe He also allo had tad very very err practical reasons for his ls Interest In sermons It was wa from the pulpit that he h. drew Ideas Idea for formost formost most mot of his hI hymns DwIght L Moody bad had told the story of a shipwreck and Bliss DU had written L Let t the Lower Lights De Be Burning Durning He Jle had heard Evangelist D O. O W. W Whittle tell of a battle during the Civil War and he h. came up with his hi hymn hymn Hold Hold the Fort Waiting for his connecting train to Chi Chlo Chicago cago the composer slipped Upped into a church The preacher was wu reading from the tho Acts Act of the Apostles Then Agrippa said ld to Paul Pul Almost thou tho me to be a Christian During hi urmon the be Rev R.- Brundage stated to be almost saved Is I. to be entirely lost and Dd Philip DUll bad the theme for one on of his bis greatest hymns A music teacher with an an Income of thirteen dollars don a month at t 16 II Philip DUn DUI was WI earning a fortune front from his hymn books boob at t sod U-sod 16 and b giving the charity On December 29 28 1878 1876 be b. and nd his bl wife were riding a Chicago Chicago- bound express through Ohio Near the town of Ashtabula the tb train crashed through a trestle tree tres tie tle and nd burned The composer and his wife perIshed per per- shed with a hundred bundred other passengers He would have hAY been 38 Almost persuaded now to believe Almost HAlmot persuaded Christ to receive Seems Slim now tome some soul to say ay Go 00 Spirit go Thy way wy Some more mON convenient day On Thee The Ill I'll call Almost Almot persuaded come com corns come today HAlm Almost lt turn persuaded not not away l Jesus u Invites Invite you here hr Angels Anal are ar near nar Prayers rl rise rl from hearts harta so ao dear dar O 0 b k r come com Almost Almon persuaded harvest Is la past pasti Almost Almott persuaded dOo doom comes com at t Almost cannot av avail lI Almost Almon Is I. but to fall I Iad Bad ad ad tad ead that bitter wall wan Almost but Ion loet r t |