In the 1830’s, as Evangelist Charles Finney walked into a Cotton Mill, one of the opponents of the local revival meeting, a young lady employee, saw him. Looking at her co-employee, she began to laugh. Some writers say she made a cynical remark about Finney and his meeting. In a spirit of prayer, Charles Finney simply looked at this young lady without saying a word. As he kept looking at her, being grieved by her criticism, the lady stopped working as she had broken her thread. She became so upset that she couldn't repair the thread and start again. The Spirit of God mightily convicted her of her sin to the point that she began to weep. Soon her companions were convicted and began to weep. A chain reaction occurred as hundreds began to be overcome by their lost condition.
The factory owner, seeing this, was deeply moved himself and said. "Stop the mill, and let the people attend to religion, for it is far more important that our souls be saved than the factory run. " All the workers were assembled in a very large room and Finney said, “...a more powerful meeting I scarcely ever attended.” Within a few days nearly every employee was saved (some accounts say all were saved) several authors say there were 3,000 employees in this factory.
How beautiful.
Pastor Kerry Willis
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Wow!! Beautiful!!
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