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This message focuses on the persecution that pushed the gospel outside the walls of Jerusaelm
Conversion May Come in Many Shapes
In The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Somerset Maugham portrays Charles Strickland, the dull London stockbroker, who left wife, family, home, and job because of an obsession to paint. Returning from Paris, where he tried to persuade him to return, the author reflects on how the creative instinct had seized him. He sees it as analogous to “the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.”
“Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water.”