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"The message 'Eternity' was spread to billions of people during the millennium festivals of 2000 as the word was written in fireworks above the Harbour Bridge."

(Australia)—The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has been publishing a series of tributes to influential Australian Christians, living or deceased. The following excerpts are from No. 7 in that series, featuring Arthur Stace, who passed away in 1967 at the age of 83.

Stace was reportedly born in a Balmain slum in 1884 to a family of alcoholics. "By his 20's he was in and out of prison for housebreaking and other offences and had developed a heavy drinking habit. Left half-blind after a gas attack in WWI, he slipped further into poverty and such extreme alcoholism that he was in danger of becoming a permanent inmate of the mental asylum. No matter what he tried, he couldn't give up the drink. In 1930, hungry, hopeless and desperate, he stumbled into St Barnabas' Church on Broadway where he had heard there was free food available to those who listened to the preaching. Struck by the Christians he met there, Stace got down on his knees and prayed. He gave up the drink and began to work."

Months later, the report notes, Stace heard a preacher at church shout, "I wish I could shout eternity through the streets of Sydney. Eternity, eternity, eternity." So powerfully struck by that phrase, from that point on he felt "a great call from the Lord to write the word 'Eternity.'"

"The funny thing is I could hardly spell my own name," he said. "I had no schooling and couldn't have spelt 'Eternity" for a hundred quid. But it came out smoothly in beautiful copperplate script. I couldn't understand it. I still can't."

Notes the report: "For thirty-seven years, Arthur Stace wandered the streets of Sydney before dawn, chalking an anonymous one-word sermon on the pavement [and walls and footpaths throughout the city]. The word was 'Eternity' and he wrote it more than half a million times. It intrigued Sydneysiders who pondered its meaning whilst trying to identify its mysterious author."

He was "out-ed" in 1956, when a churchman identified him.

According to the report, ten years after his death, a plaque was dedicated to him in Sydney. The message 'Eternity' was spread to billions of people during the millennium festivals of 2000 as the word was written in fireworks above the Harbour Bridge."

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