Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-10 | Page 2 | Skeptic Convinced Topic of Address

00 'SKEPTIC CONVINCED' TOPIC OF ADDRESS "A Skeptic Convinced," was the subject sub-ject of an Interesting talk on mlsslon-ary mlsslon-ary experiences delivered in th-Twelfth th-Twelfth ward chapel Sunday night, by Elder Nicholas G. Smith ol Salt Lake. Tho service was In charje of the returned re-turned missionaries of the ward with Elder Ross H. McCune conducting. The speaker told Ot his missionary experiences In Holland and South i'-rlca. i'-rlca. He said when he was a boy and al the Him when he was ln"hirti chooi he was a skeptic and thought every! rUng n ,IS by luck or ohani e When called on his mission, he ac-1 cepted the call as an op.o. .unity to see I ' B R orld but thought little of the call- ! lnvr of a missionary . In a humorous Vein the speaker told of his Impressions of mlaslonan ac-ivitles ac-ivitles while In a skepticu. muno or' mind, and how he changed his point of View When he witnessed the demonstration demon-stration of the power of God In the lives of the people hr ,L. a;.rnV h owing to their faith in the savins 1 power pf ,h,. principles of the gospel, j He declared he had seen the sick healed heal-ed by the power of faith and had re- jcelved a denionstratiMn of the fS 'of God In man;, v. ays He Is aaM u skeptic but ., firm belleverB power of the gospel of ChfiP 'Might b-. th. I at ter-ds foinlH ring to his experteotl South Africa Kbb r '-.i ,1th toldV dark days of the in,'ienuH In Cape Town, he &ald. lO.OfH died in two w eeks and buslitB pra.ti.al! su .. ndd He -SB that not one member of the lH church In South Africa UH l sickness, althoush many mrtH ing th period of suffering tsH tress. J