Kinsman

Rev. Andrew Kinsman was once preaching on Sunday in London. A dreadful and heavy rainfall suddenly came, and a number of people who were simply passing by ducked into the church in which he was speaking. One of the people was a young man who was from Kinsman's home town of Plymouth; he listened to the service and then asked Kinsman how his relations were in Plymouth. Kinsman replied that his good aunt and religious mother had recently gone to heaven, "but which way are you going? What would your pious mother say, if she sould miss here William there?" The sermon had had no effect on the young man, but these words of Kinsman sure did. They struck him to the heart, and they were the means of his conversion.

Years later that young man's son came to Rev. Kinsman to have his child baptized. Kinsman, knowing that this man was an unbeliever, told him that he would baptize his child for the sake of his grandfather. Kinsman then told the man the remarkable story of his father's conversion. This so affected the man that he himself was converted hearing the conversion story of his own father!