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204:. On several occasions he had close calls, where he was sure he would die. On one such occasion, in March 1885 he had a close call while turning the horses around in the snow and brush of a wood. Fearing death, he cried out, "Oh, God, I'm lost, there's no use of me trying to be good." He got the wood on, and was on his way home, when he saw that, according to Romans 5:6, "Christ died for the ungodly," and he remembered that moment as the time where he "passed from death unto life."
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Congregational minister for four years after being saved. This remark irritated Rouse, who spoke of it in anger to another young man after the meeting. He was surprised that Munro was listening in on the conversation. Rouse relayed the incident thus:
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Brethren. But when he arrived in Orillia, he discovered that they had left that day with a Bible carriage for
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