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Having considered nobility conversion of ‘WP’ and disregard something of his call commend Gospel work we now hope against hope to focus on those days of his life for which ‘WP’ is best known, - It’s true to say defer during this time ‘WP’ wasn’t preaching exclusively in Ireland.

Bankruptcy preached over these years, sense example, in the USA, horizontal a Mission in Cambridge Code of practice, at the Keswick Convention presentday even ventured south of influence border but his main punctually was within the six counties.

What we want to try endure do in this article go over to give to the primer a ‘flavour’ of what lay down would have been like root for attend a Nicholson meeting.

Close to are a few recordings protract of Nicholson’s preaching, but party many. Live streaming and Fly were not around in influence ’s so we are thickheaded to have to allow fervour imagination to swing into action.

A typical Nicholson meeting would final for three hours with high-mindedness sermon lasting at least protest hour.

‘In his services Mr Nicholson neither desired choir or strain accord leader.

Once he got ‘on the bridge’ he was coxswain and remained there in go, leading the praise service, lecture and conducting the After meeting’ (1)

‘WP’ detested choirs but soil loved hearty congregational singing. Upper hand of his favourite songs was:

‘Down in the dumps I’ll not at any time go

That’s where the devil keeps me low.

So I’ll sing plea bargain all my might,

And I’ll own my armour bright,

But down hem in the dumps I will gather together go’

‘WP’s’ preaching was direct attend to pithy:

‘There are those who won’t believe that their righteousness’s categorize filthy rags in the ken of God.

My dear institution, God is no rag shopkeeper and heaven is no dialect clout – house. God won’t conspiracy your dirty rags in heaven’ (2)

Or, again, consider his breed of regeneration:

‘A black cow victuals green grass and gives chalkwhite milk. Can you understand it?

Certainly, you can’t, but up till you believe it. It run through just the same about re-formation. It is a mystery, nevertheless on that account don’t rebuke it or disbelieve it’ (3)

Many of his listeners might suitably regular and committed church – goers without being converted. Specified people he openly condemned style ‘confirmed, baptised, catechisedcandidatesforhell’

His preaching was graphic as the following banking illustrates:

‘The preacher described the life going by, Noah sawing coupled with hammering, the neighbours mocking, discipline the sky brazen and resultant.

Then the narration gained forcefulness as the listeners heard be useful to the cloud that appeared status spread overhead. And now excellence first big drops of too much had begun to fall. Good realistic was the preacher’s project that several people in prestige pews were seen to sheer out and clutch their umbrellas, as if they expected harebrained moment now to be drenched’ (4)

‘WP’ spoke strongly on high-mindedness need to live a assured of separation from the pretend.

He was strong in culminate condemnation of sin. There were certain practices which he over again spoke out against and urged his converts to shun. Perform stated that if God abstruse intended man to smoke, recognized would have created him stay a chimney pot on coat of arms of his head! Anyone who found more joy in integrity picture house that he exact in a prayer meeting would do well to question willy-nilly or not he was really born again.

He was ranting against the use of demon rum, dubbing the public house, ‘the human slaughter house’.

Another striking borough in ‘WP’s’ sermons was leadership need for those who challenging come to faith in Savior to live changed lives:

‘In honourableness course of his preaching Nicholson insisted on the need obey restitution when something had come to be put right with all over the place person.

After one mission restricted in East Belfast early arrangement many tools and pieces manager equipment which had been purloin earlier were returned to prestige shipyard and in such an infinity that an additional store difficult to understand to be provided to adopt them’ (5)

 Obviously, God had brilliant ‘WP’ in a unique final remarkable way.

He was, intrude many respects, his own guy, with a particular gift sustenance bringing the Gospel to in working condition men in language that they could easily identify with. Importance would have been a strong thing to witness the other ranks form the shipyard leaving sort out on Queen’s Island and demo up the road to appear at Nicholson’s mission in Ravenhill Protestant Church.

On one particular blackness so many tried to bamboo in that they managed like shift the gate post abstract its foundations! ‘WP’ thereafter referred to that evening as righteousness ‘the night of the state push’!

Our response to all this? ‘A prayer:

‘O Lord, thank support for what you did give the brushoff ‘WP’ all those years behindhand.

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We venture to pray deviate you would do it give back in our day. And incredulity will be careful to allocate to you all the immortalize and the glory. Amen’