A. CHILD PREACHER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 89, 8 January 1908, Page 8

A. CHILD PREACHER.

"I havo received a Divino call'to preach the.Gospel; it has pleased Jesus to use even me —a little girl!" These were the words of Francos Bradley Storr, the thirteen-yonr-old Doncastcr girl who, after an extraordinary success as a child preacher in the north of England, has arrived in London to be tho contral figure of a special five.weeks' "mission." With hair brushed neatly back, pale, serious face aglow ,and dark eyes shining brightly, the child held a .congregation of 2000 pcoplo completely enthralled •in tho Holloway Hall. Folding her hands before hor shfe closed, her eyes, and, turning her face upwards, prayed earnestly, her childish voice vibrating with oniotion. "Turn all oyes from me, tho human, and lift thorn higher—up, .up, up, to the scat of tho Almighty 1" A deep chorus of "Aniens" greeted her words. Thon, taking, a Bible in hor hands, sho read from tho Gospel of St. Luke till sho came to the words, "It was founded upon la rock I" Extending her arms and closing her oyes, the child preacher cried, "Temptation is great. Satan's power is great, too. But if we but build upon the rock wo shall all lie safe. Jesus is knocfting at tho door to-night—at this moment. Ho calls. You must come—that is all. Get down at His feet. Just say, 'I have come.' Got down on your knees—He. will lift you up. Come now—not to-morrow, or next week, or next year, but now!" Tears came to the eyes of grov-hnirod men and woman. There was a dead silence for a moment,, and ■ then exclamations, wrung from the girl preacher's hearers under tho tension of the moment, broke forth all over the orowded hoLU