WEBVTT 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:15.039 Welcome to the Preaching the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.480 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delaney, Florida. 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:31.280 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs will bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:34.159 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:34.880 Knox. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.560 For that kind word of introduction. 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:07.200 Thanks to each and every one of you for tuning in today to the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.599 I'm Brother James, and I greet you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:30.000 I hope and pray that you'll be able to stay with us for the next half an hour as we try our best to point your hearts and turn your attention away from all the things and the cares and the troubles of this life on to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:32.079 You know it's really wonderful to be saved. 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:36.239 It's just a great thing to know the Lord and to be a part of his service. 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.879 I was on my way here to sit behind the microphone just a few moments ago. 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:51.519 I met a man coming out of a particular place of business, and he told me about someone he was witnessing to and telling them about Jesus Christ and how close he thought they were to being saved. 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:55.840 As I got here, the telephone was ringing. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:57.680 I picked up the telephone. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:07.760 Someone was calling from all the way across the nation to tell me of a neighbor that they had been witnessing to who had come to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:19.680 It's just exciting to know that people are still being saved, that saved people are still preaching the gospel and witnessing to their friends and their neighbors and their acquaintances. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.080 It's just great to know the Lord. 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:30.560 It's great to be a part of His work and of His body of the Church and just to participate in the wonderful things that God is doing in this world. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:31.919 I know it's a dark world. 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:34.639 I know things are in a mess. 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.759 I know that evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse. 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:40.080 I know and understand all those things. 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.479 But it's still great to be a Christian. 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:44.400 It's still great to be born again. 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:48.159 It's still great to live for Jesus Christ. 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:54.240 And I don't want to ever lose the excitement, the enthusiasm, the joy of living for Jesus. 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:56.719 There's no life like it. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:58.479 There's nothing else to do. 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:00.560 There's nothing else worth doing. 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.599 I'll tell you, Jesus Christ, he is wonderful. 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:05.039 He's wonderful. 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:10.159 We like to talk on these broadcasts about heroes of the Christian faith. 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:13.360 We've been doing so now for many years. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:31.439 Taking time out from our regular Bible teaching programs to discuss this man or that woman, this evangelist, that preacher, this missionary in the United States of America, Europe and Africa, China, all around the world, from all around the world come these stories of these great men and women. 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:38.719 And on the program today, a man who made his mark on Canada and beyond, Donald Munro. 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:41.360 Spelled a little differently than you might be used to. 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:58.960 M-U-N-R-O, Donald Munro, was born in 1839 in the County Caithness, in the far north of Scotland, where so many of these heroes come from. 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:08.159 His parents, James and Hannah Munro, held the old Puritan theology of the Highlands that conversion is a necessity. 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:16.000 The new birth is a work of the spirit in the soul, and the gospel is the means used to effect it. 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:18.399 They were right on the money. 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:20.879 You must be converted, you must be born again. 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:22.560 That's what Jesus Christ said. 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.480 Nobody's born a Christian, and nobody evolves into being a Christian. 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:28.480 You must be born again. 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:31.920 This new birth is the work of the Holy Spirit of God in the soul. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.439 It's not an intellectual work in the mind, though the mind will consent to it. 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:44.399 It's not an emotional work in the flesh, though there will be some form of emotion when one is passed from death unto life, from darkness unto light. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:51.279 But it is primarily, this new birth is primarily not the work of man as he pleads with his fellow. 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:57.759 But it is the work of the Holy Spirit of God in the soul of the individual. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:04:59.839 The means used to effect it? 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:01.279 The gospel. 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:21.920 Since that very first day called Pentecost, recorded Acts chapter number two, until the day the church is taken out of this world, the preaching of the gospel is, was, and will be, to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God unto salvation. 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:30.160 To everyone that believeth the Jew first, and also to the Gentile, God has seen fit to save men through the preaching of the gospel. 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:36.720 Well, Donald Munro's parents gathered their children daily to read from the Gaelic Bible and to pray. 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:47.920 In the disruption of 1843, James Munro took his family out of the established Church of Scotland and joined the Free Church, which was more evangelistic. 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:55.360 But despite his parents' godly example, Donald was to resist the gospel. 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:01.439 His older brother Charles was the first of the Munroe children to make a clear profession of salvation. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:11.920 Charles witnessed to his younger brother on a long walk, but Donald said, quote, I didn't want to be spoken to in that way again. 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:25.920 In July of eighteen fifty eight, while working as an apprentice cabinet maker in the town of Wick, he went to hear Hay McDowell Grant, the laird of Arnley. 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:36.079 He spoke from Romans chapter eight and verse one there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not of the flesh but of the Spirit. 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:39.519 He seemed to talk directly to Monroe. 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:46.879 Have you ever noticed that everyone who's been saved under gospel preaching tells the same tale? 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:53.120 It seems they all say that preacher was speaking directly to me. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:54.319 Well he was. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.519 He was speaking directly to everyone in the building, everyone in the auditorium, everyone on the street. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:12.399 But when your heart was arrested by the convicting power of the Holy Spirit of God working with your conscience, how that message became a personal one. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:19.759 Young man, that preacher said, You may have read your Bible and said your prayers this morning, but did you pray? 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:27.439 I warn you now before God who knows you thoroughly, that if you are not in Christ, you are under condemnation. 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:28.480 That was the message. 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:32.959 And God burned it into the soul of young Donald Monroe. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:42.000 Six weeks later, he went to speak privately with Brownlow North, who laid the facts before Donald in a way he had never seen them before. 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:47.759 Later that night, he put his faith in Jesus Christ. 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:57.759 Now, preacher friend, Sunday school teacher, personal worker, listen, listen carefully, please, listen to me just for a moment. 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:12.879 When Hay McDonald Grant finished preaching that day, Donald Munro went home a lost man, and yet a lost man under conviction of his sin. 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:24.319 Six weeks later, another man was able to have a hand in personally leading Donald Monroe to saving faith in Jesus Christ. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:32.480 Whether or not the evangelist who preached the day that Monroe fell under conviction ever knew of his conversion, we do not know. 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.039 But he wasn't the saved that night. 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.360 Later, Monroe would win to Jesus Christ through his ministry. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:45.360 John Ritchie, writer and publisher, T. 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:45.679 D. 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:45.919 W. 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:54.080 Muir, evangelist, William Faulknore, missionary to Africa, Harry Ironside, Bible teacher and commentator. 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:04.799 But the preacher, Hayden McDowell Grant, went home, went home one night after preaching to Donald Monroe. 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:10.480 And as far as he knew, had accomplished nothing. 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:12.879 Just preach on, just preach on. 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.480 Let God have his way in the outcome. 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:22.240 Monroe immediately upon conversion wanted to tell his roommate that he had been saved, but he was afraid. 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:28.720 Finally, waking him in the middle of the night, he told the whole story, and the roommate also trusted Christ. 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:29.600 That's pretty quick. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:35.200 Not many of us get to win somebody else to the Lord within hours of our own salvation. 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:43.360 Early in his Christian life, Munro contacted James Dewar, who was preaching under Donald Ross's Northeast Coast Mission. 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:47.120 You've heard about Donald Ross on these programs among the fishing villages. 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.919 After working hours, Donald would accompany Dewar. 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.879 This was harvest season along that coast. 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:58.320 Dewar's success owed nothing to any brilliance or natural persuasiveness on his part. 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:03.120 Rather his proximity to God and the throne of grace gave him influence among men. 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:11.679 He would spend protracted periods in secret prayer, sometimes cloistering himself for days, seeking God in private. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.639 Monroe was simply a helper to Dewar. 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:21.440 Then one night James announced to the congregation that there would be two meetings going on at the same time the next night. 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.399 Donald knew Dewar would speak at one of them. 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:31.759 After the meeting asked who would be preaching at the other meeting, and you will was the reply. 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:42.159 In eighteen sixty five, Donald Ross invited Donald Munroe to join the gospel outreach of the Northeast Coast Mission. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.000 Donald worked mainly in the far north in Sutherlandshire. 00:10:46.399 --> 00:11:00.240 He also helped in the awakenings along the Moray Firth and in Aberdeenshire, lending a hand in the reaping of souls at Cairnbog, Inverkley, and at Footdi. 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:06.159 Where the power of God was manifested, the meetings continued day and night. 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.840 As Ross searched his Bible, he decided to end his service in the Northeast Coast mission. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.159 In eighteen seventy he started the Northern Evangelistic Association. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:19.120 Munro was one of the first evangelists to join. 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:25.919 It seemed a risky step, but Munro reasoned that if God was leading them out, then God would supply their needs. 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:30.159 His pot will be big enough to hold porridge for me, was his saying. 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:41.679 Soon the New Mission Society dissolved, and the men discovered that their relationship of co laboring did not need the artificial bands of ligaments of some society or denomination. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:48.080 At Inverary, there was strong opposition, but Munro was an overcomer. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:57.440 At their second gospel meeting, quote, few were present but scoffers, and such an exhibition of the devil I never did see before anywhere. 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.440 There were about thirty scoffers. 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:05.759 During the time of prayer they hissed, cheered, and shouted so that one could not hear his own voice. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:18.000 Munro took heart, knowing that sometimes the devil's roars are his admission of defeat, and that he leaves his victims to wallow foaming. 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.559 According to John chapter nine I'm sorry, Mark chapter nine, verse twenty. 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:33.519 At the conclusion of the week, they saw twenty saved out of this rabble, twenty saved out of this mocking, jeering crowd. 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:45.120 Among them, an eighteen-year-old named John Ritchie, who went on to serve Christ with his tongue and pen, forming what is now John Ritchie Publishers. 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:51.120 Have you ever felt you were dealing with people who just weren't paying any attention? 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:55.120 Have you ever felt like you were addressing a crowd that uh had no interest? 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:03.440 Did you ever feel that you were witnessing to someone who uh was only intent on harassing you? 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:16.080 Well, think of all the people that have been blessed and helped through the books published by John Ritchie Publishers, and remember he was an eighteen-year-old troublemaker disrupting an evangelistic campaign. 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.639 But God saved his soul. 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:27.679 In eighteen seventy one, after a strenuous twelve months of gospel campaigns, Monroe took a break to visit his brother Charles in Park Hill, Ontario. 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.039 He also hoped to witness to his unconverted brother William. 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.080 Monroe reported on the progress of the work. 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:47.440 His letters were printed in the Northern Intelligencer and the Northern Witness, and became seeds of interest to bring other preachers such as John Carney, John Smith, Donald Ross, and Alexander Marshall over to Canada and the United States. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:54.639 At this time Ross was in Scotland examining the issue of Christian baptism, while Munro did likewise in Canada. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:02.080 Ross corresponded with his friends, saying that he saw the matter clearly and was baptized in the River Dee one Saturday morning. 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:08.399 Donald Munro sailed the ocean to have Ross baptize him at Aberdeen on december thirty first, eighteen seventy one. 00:14:08.799 --> 00:14:15.679 Thereafter, believers' baptism by immersion was a key element of teaching to the new converts. 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.320 Monroe also saw a bold step being taken in Scotland. 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:28.480 In November of eighteen seventy one, as James Campbell recalled, the Lord's table was spread in the simplicity of the early times. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:30.559 It was a beautiful sight indeed. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:34.879 We had never heard of such a meeting until we saw it with our own eyes. 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:49.759 Not a priest giving mass or communion to laymen, but all the brethren equally before the table of the Lord, in communion with the Savior and with one another. 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.639 As New Testament churches sprang up, the opposition sprang up too. 00:14:54.960 --> 00:15:01.440 Monroe discovered the meaning of that saying endure hardness as a good soldier of Christ, do the work of an evangelist. 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:16.320 When McIntosh published a booklet, an inflammatory booklet called The New Prophets, the scoffers felt that they had the support of the established church, and all restraint against violence and public ridicule was removed. 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.080 At meetings in Huntley, a clergyman stood up to disrupt the message with railing denunciation. 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:29.039 Donald Ross said the mockers gave savage, cruel, and brutal treatment worthy of the palmy days of the Inquisition. 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.720 God's truth had laid bare the sores, and they were very sore. 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:50.080 You see, these men were preaching that one was not saved because water had been sprinkled on their forehead when they were a baby, and that one was not part of the true church of the Lord Jesus Christ just because his name was on the membership roll of some denominational structure. 00:15:51.440 --> 00:16:02.799 And here came the trouble from the same religious crowd that hounded Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul and everyone that's ever tried to do something for God and make a mark on this world. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:08.879 At a pack Sunday evening meeting, the scoffers turned the lights out and tried to cause a panic. 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:10.879 But the Christians remained calm. 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:16.799 And some of the scoffers were saved by the testimony of the believers. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:26.720 At the climax of that meeting, the opposition rushed onto the platform, threw the preachers to the floor, and told them to desist preaching or they would be murdered. 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:35.840 Isn't that a great way for professing Christians to treat those who are preaching the gospel? 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:37.840 Isn't that just wonderful? 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:42.639 The devil must have been quite worried about losing hold of Huntley and rightly so. 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.440 Thereafter it became the birthplace of a number of missionaries and Christian workers. 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:52.720 In October of eighteen seventy two, Monroe returned to Ontario. 00:16:52.879 --> 00:17:04.400 In eighteen seventy three he was joined in the work by James Campbell and John Smith to campaign in Chatham, Dundas, Forest, Galt, London, Orilla, Saint Catharines, Statford, and Toronto. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.160 The Word of God went out, and it went out in power. 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:12.400 Numbers came to the Savior and congregations were established. 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:14.799 Oh the opposition persisted. 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.160 A clergyman in Forest, Ontario warned, Mr. 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:24.559 Munro is all right so long as he keeps the gospel, but I warn you against his Bible readings, they are sure to lead you astray. 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:31.279 One night in eighteen seventy three, Munro visited the town of Shakespeare, near Stratford. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:39.039 We can never forget the first time we heard the voice of Donald Munro preaching on the street in Shakespeare. 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:43.599 Nobody spoke to him, and when he had finished he returned to Stratford. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:50.799 He came again the following night, preached in the open air, and obtained permission to have meetings in the schoolhouse. 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:52.480 There he was joined by Mr. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:54.240 Smith, his fellow laborer. 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:59.680 They preached the word simply and faithfully each night, and God gave blessing. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:05.440 Sinners were saved, and those who were the Lord's revived. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:07.200 Well, how about that? 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.200 An evangelistic campaign. 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:15.519 Revival and souls being saved, growing out of open air preaching. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:18.480 So that was a different day and time. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:20.880 Oh yes, I'm sure it was. 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:22.319 I'm sure it was. 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:27.279 Always an excuse to hide in the safe walls of the church, isn't there? 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:28.559 People haven't changed. 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:30.559 Some are going to heaven, some are going to hell. 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:33.200 A few love the Lord, most despise him. 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:34.480 Nothing's changed. 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:35.839 Nothing's changed. 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:43.519 But the Presbyterian minister was not so encouraged when you notice some of his sheep straying over to the schoolhouse. 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.240 He set in motion a cycle of abuse. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:48.799 In God's name, of course. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:56.640 Monroe and Smith lost the use of the schoolhouse, and every place they rented or stayed was vandalized. 00:18:56.799 --> 00:18:58.240 Of course, for God, you understand. 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:00.400 I mean vandalism for Jesus. 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:06.720 Windows were broken and stones smashed against the doors of private houses. 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:07.759 To do what? 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:10.160 Stop Bible preaching. 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.519 A fine hour for Calvinism, was it not? 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:22.559 One day a property owner stood looking at the work of a mob on the previous evening, when an elder of the church, which was the most guilty of the violence, walked by. 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:32.400 While embarrassed by his fellow parishioners, he made the lame excuse The truth must be upheld at all cost, even if stones have to be used. 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:40.400 On hearing this, John Ritchie remarked, Very likely the murderers of Stephen would have given a similar answer. 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:46.319 Yet that spring Munro baptized twenty five new converts from Shakespeare. 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:51.279 At Clyde, Ontario, Monroe, Smith and Carney preached for five weeks. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:59.920 A brother McPherson hosted Monroe and he said, Quote, His godly life in our home and his earnest prayers had a wonderful effect on all. 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:06.240 He often retired alone to the edge of a wood to pour out his soul in prayer to God, continuing for a long time. 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:13.359 He was the first to open up the Word of God to us, and we never knew any who could do it so simply and plainly as he did. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:19.039 In one day, Monroe baptized fifty believers in a pond near Clyde. 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:25.519 In June of eighteen seventy four, Monroe and Smith came to Hamilton, Ontario. 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:31.519 They preached six weeks of gospel meetings and decided that the meager results dictated that they should pack their bags. 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.039 But on the last night a young man named Thomas Muir was saved. 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:38.240 Monroe and Smith were heartened and decided to stay a little longer. 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:39.920 They unpacked their bags. 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:48.559 Two nights later, Thomas Muir leaned over to a distressed young man and asked, Have you eternal life? 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:51.359 No, I have not, but I wish I did have. 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:55.359 A few minutes later, the man, William Faulkner, trusted Christ. 00:20:55.920 --> 00:21:00.640 Sitting behind them, Kenneth Muir listened, and he was saved. 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:06.480 Faulkner would eventually go to Angola to serve in mission work with Fred Stanley Arnaud. 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:10.240 Muir became a missionary to the metropolis of Detroit. 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.559 Six weeks, no results. 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:18.799 The last night, one young man saved. 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:22.079 Well, two more nights of meetings. 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:24.240 And two missionaries. 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:28.000 Two future missionaries, born again. 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:36.240 In Toronto, Monroe became the frequent guest in the John and Sophia Ironside home, along with his co-worker John Smith. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:43.039 A ten year old boy named Henry Allan Ironside would never forget the man who carried with them the atmosphere of eternity. 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:46.799 One of them was very tall and wore a long brown beard, he would say later. 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:48.559 His name was Donald Monroe. 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:53.839 The other was quite short, his beard was long also, but it was black and his eyebrows were bushy and very shaggy. 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:56.960 Harry used to enjoy watching him clip them. 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:02.400 The shorter man's name was John Smith, but pride of his Privately was nicknamed Hellfire Jack. 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.160 I wonder what he preached. 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:10.160 As they came down the stairs for breakfast, one of them asked, Harry, my lad, are you born again? 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:23.759 In defense, Harry reported on his track distribution efforts, his Bible memorization, and Sunday school attendance, but the interview ended with a bearded preacher saying, Oh, oh, Laddie, you may give out tracts and still spend eternity in hell. 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:26.319 You must be born again, Harry Boy. 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:35.119 When Harry's widowed mother moved the family to San Francisco, Harry thought that those preachers would never buttonhold him again, but he was wrong. 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:43.039 The next year, in eighteen sixty six, Donald Munro married Miss Helen Dorr, and the Munroes settled in Toronto. 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:48.880 Meanwhile, in eighteen eighty seven, Ross saw a church established in the San Francisco Bay Area. 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.880 That October they held their first annual Bible conference. 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:57.759 And who else would Ross invite to such a conference but his comrade Donald Munro? 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:01.839 In the late summer of eighteen eighty nine, Monroe again appeared. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.880 The fourteen year old was returning home from school when Mrs. 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:08.480 Ironside said, Harry, who do you suppose is here? 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:11.359 He guessed by her excitement it was Uncle Henry. 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:12.720 Guess again. 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:16.000 Without waiting for another wrong guest, she enthused, it's Mr. 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:16.799 Munro. 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:18.880 Donald greeted him. 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:21.839 Well, well, Harry lad, how you have grown. 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:24.640 And are you born again yet, my boy? 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:26.720 What a man. 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.000 Ironside never could hide his blush. 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:38.799 Speechless Harry was eyeing the floor when his uncle interjected O'Harry preaches himself now, referring to some Sunday school and Bible club work Harry had started. 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:42.559 You are preaching, and yet you don't know that you're born again. 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:44.720 Go and get your Bible, lad. 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:50.000 As his biographer put it, Harry was so eager for an excuse to leave the room that he flew up the stairs. 00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:54.079 He knew he had to come down again, but he took as much time as he possibly could to do so. 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:59.119 When finally he could stay away no longer without being rude, he descended with his Bible in his hand. 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.599 The first thing Monroe asked Harry to do was turn to Romans three hundred nineteen. 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:04.799 The boy did. 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:06.400 Now read it aloud. 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:07.519 Harry complied. 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:17.039 Now we know that whatsoever things the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:23.440 He had scarcely begun reading when Harry knew why that passage had been chosen. 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:27.200 Harry lad, have you ever been there? 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:30.079 What do you mean, the boy countered? 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:35.200 Well, I understand that you have got your mouth pretty wide open trying to preach to other people. 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:39.519 When God makes a preacher, he stops his mouth first. 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:44.880 Then when he sees his lost condition, God leads him to put his trust in the Lord Jesus. 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:50.400 But when he trusts and is born of God and his soul is saved, then God opens his mouth. 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:53.759 You've been putting the cart before the horse, haven't you? 00:24:54.240 --> 00:24:56.400 Maybe I have, Harry replied. 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:02.160 That interview with Monroe gave him an emotional whiplash, and six months he still suffered from the jolt. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:13.680 One Thursday night, february eighteen ninety, he again read from Romans three, then John three, and that night, Harry Ironside trusted Jesus Christ as his personal savior. 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:19.599 Campbell, Carney, Gill, Marshall, Monroe, Ross, and Smith toiled for the perishing. 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:20.799 They led by example. 00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:23.839 They evangelized throughout Ontario, Manitoba. 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:28.559 Monroe evangelized in Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, New York, Philadelphia. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:37.279 He made ten trips to the West Coast in the days when no gospel preaching of any record was being conducted in those regions. 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:42.160 The years 1905 to 1906 were perhaps Donald's busiest. 00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:44.720 Finally his health gave in. 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:51.759 Donald and Helen made visits to his many children in the faith, hoping by this to recoup his strength, but but he couldn't do it. 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:02.079 Donald Monroe passed into glory in 1908. 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:10.720 Probably not a man that you've heard of, but a man you'll meet. 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:20.079 In fact, in fact, most of you listen to my voice have been helped or influenced by the ministry of Donald Monroe. 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:29.279 Whether you know it or not, you've heard a preacher preach something he learned from one of Munro's converts. 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:37.680 And those men preached something they learned from Donald Monroe. 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:40.559 Only heaven will reveal. 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:49.119 Only heaven will reveal how God has passed truth from man to man, generation to generation. 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:55.599 What a blessing to be a part of this great work of God. 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:57.440 Do you know Jesus Christ is your Savior? 00:26:57.759 --> 00:26:58.880 So I'm a preacher. 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:01.359 I pass out tracts, I memorize scripture. 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:02.799 Didn't ask you that. 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:05.440 Do you know Jesus Christ is your personal Savior? 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:08.160 Have you ever been born again? 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:09.279 You must be. 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:10.880 That's what the Bible says. 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:13.440 You must be born again. 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:14.319 All right. 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