“The fear of death did not for one moment disturb me. I believed that sudden death would be sudden glory, but, there was a wee motherless girl in Glasgo, and oh, I thought, if I had only committed her to my dear brother George’s care before I left.”

“ I have ominous impression that disaster awaits you if you take this voyage.”

Robert English

“And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 21:12-13

• The designer of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews, spent the closing moments of his life in the smoking-room, looking at a mural on the wall with the caption: “The New World to Come.”

“For fifty terrifying minutes the cries for help filled the night. The sound of people drowning is something I cannot describe to you. And neither can anyone else. It is the most dreadful sound. And there is a dreadful silence that follows it.”

Eva Heart

“The most pathetic and horrible scene of all. The piteous cries of those around us still ring in my ears, and I will remember them to my dying day.”

Archibald Gracie

“Are you saved?”John Harper

“Night after night, just as I was about to announce my text, John would slip off the platform into a small side vestry, and fall upon his knees in prayer. There he would wrestle with God, as I pled with men. Needless to say the results of that mission abide to-day. I have been with my dear brother in prayer , again and again, when his whole frame shook like an aspen leaf, so earnest was he in his pleadings with God for a perishing world. He often wept in prayer. Like his Lord he offered up his supplications with “strong crying and tears” George Harper

At the outset of his career he dreamed of no church pulpit. If he found an empty street corner when he went anywhere he filled it. That was his pulpit, If he found an empty street corner when he went anywhere he filed it. That was his pulpit, and he made full use of it.

All round about the district where he lived, after receiving the special enduement of power from on high, he went preaching the story of redeeming grace. Bridge-of-Weir, Kilbarchan, Elderslie, Johnstone, Linwood, and elsewhere would find him at night after his day’s work was over, heralding forth with youthful hopefulness the story of God’s love to men. His heart was all aglow. He did one thing then and he did it to the end – he laboured to bring men from sin to God.

When he was “discovered” an opportunity arose for him to pastor a Baptist church. At the installation service a sermon was preached by Principal McGeggor of Dunoon College: “There was a man sent from God whose name was John.”

"The last day we spent on the Titanic was Sunday. Mr. Harper asked me to read the chapter at our morning family prayers, and later we went to the Sunday morning services. The day was quietly and pleasantly spent, and when Nana and I went to look for Mr. Harper at about 6 o'clock to go to dinner I found him earnestly talking to a young Englishman whom he was seeking to lead to Christ.

That evening before we retired we went on deck, and there was still a glint of red in the west. I remember Mr. Harper saying, "It will be beautiful in the morning." We then went down to the staterooms. He read from the Bible and prayed, and so he left us."

Miss Jessie Wills

“And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. “

Luke 14:23

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”

Proverbs 11:30

“Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”

John 20:21

“As I listened to him in prayer I used to say, “Dear John is far ben” (“ben” meant “the innermost, the intimate part of the house” in 19th century Scotland). He seemed to live on the most intimate terms with his Lord. There was nothing mawkish about his piety. He never tried to make one feel that he was holier than others, yet one instinctively felt that he was a man of God, whose supreme joy was in fellowship with his Lord and Redeemer.

George Harper

“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”

Acts 16:31

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