So Richard Sullivan did not die that year. In fact he lived to be quite an old man, in love with Janet and loved by both of their children, and by their seven grandchildren. After he submitted to the Son of God as his own Lord, he also accepted his God-given responsibility to be the spiritual head of his family. By doing so, he not only changed the eternal lives of his wife, his children, and his grandchildren, but also, through them, of hundreds of other people.
When Richard's immortal soul did finally pass to the next life, he was taken, like everyone, to the Judgment Seat. There God kept His promise that “all who believe in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” The Blood of Jesus atoned for Richard's many sins and imperfections, and he was welcomed into heaven with millions of other believers. Eventually he was joined there by Janet, Susan, Tommy, and five of their grandchildren, where they're spending eternity in complete joy, praising God.
The boy grew up in Cincinnati with fine parents in a good home. He somehow knew—he always believed—that he had been touched by God, even before he was born.
Thirty-five years later, in one of his nation's darkest times, Patrick Tomlinson, Jr., began and led a mighty revival—the most sweeping in the nation since the late nineteenth century Millions of people were led away from the lies of Satan, who was bent on their destruction and instead turned to the one true God who created them in His own image and who loved them.
And this revival brought the nation to the moment when people finally realized that neither government nor any other program conceived by humans could answer the overwhelming problems of that day. People finally realized again what the founders of the nation had known so well, that each individual and nation must be founded on God and on His will if they are to survive and to prosper.
Patrick Tomlinson, Jr., was alive and able to be the spark to light God's cleansing fire of national revival only because Richard Sullivan had believed. And Richard Sullivan had believed only because many other believers, over many years, most not seeing any results at all, had nevertheless told Richard the same true story about God and about the power of a life submitted to Him.
Despite the forces arrayed against them, their voices could not be silenced.