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Willie Horn |
by Shauna Mackay |
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Willie Horn was an evangelist - and shoemaker!
Everybody knows writers eat dictionaries for breakfast.
Willie, although author of the venerable The Lord's Dealings with William
Horn, preferred to start the day on a good helping of Bible.
The Good Book for brekkie, lunch, tea, supper and interim snacks. How well
and truly full-up his wife and kids must have been! So fervent, so jubilantly
God-botherin’, with his tin whistle and little blessed black suit and his
stonker of a Bible - Dickens could have designed him.
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He lived at 5 Nelson Place, Ballast Hill, his house and cobble shop displaying biblical texts like a sailor his tattoos.
He’d think nothing of bolting you into his shop if he thought you looked like someone whose soul needed saving.
Did he ever notice the folk veering off in all directions, sudden as coal sparks, as he walked towards them in the street?
In his book he recalls a difficult mission to Newsham Gates where hundreds of fighters, drinkers, pigeon flyers and dog racers hung out. Thankfully, his efforts weren't entirely in vain for someone by the name of Old Mother Waddell, a Newsham Gates regular, was brought to the light and subsequently became a doorkeeper at the Salvation Army. Result. |
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He was a man on a mission for a Mission and the Lord did indeed supply his wants for, on Sunday 29th July 1888 at 2.50pm, Horn Mission House
(on rollers) opened with accompanying music from Armstrong's String Band.
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