You almost persuade me to become a Christian
Acts 26:28
Charles Peace was a Burglar and murderer who was hung for his crimes in 1879.
On the morning of his execution, Peace ate a hearty breakfast of bacon, and calmly awaited the coming of the public executioner, who was the inventor of the "long drop".
He was escorted on the death-walk by the prison chaplain, who was reading aloud from The Consolations of Religion about the fires of hell.
Peace burst out "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say that you believe, even if England were covered with broken glass from coast to coast, I would walk over it, if need be, on hands and knees and think it worth while living, just to save one soul from an eternal hell like that!"[3] On the scaffold, Peace died instantly and was buried in Armley Gaol.
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