A
Pastor in England asked a dying Christian woman where she found the
Saviour. She gave him a piece of paper torn from an American journal
containing one of C.H. Spurgeon's sermons. The scrap had been wrapped
around a package that came to her from Australia. The words of Spurgeon
were read by her and were the means of leading her to Christ.
Commenting
on this incident, a writer says, "Think of it, a sermon preached in
England, printed in America, in some way coming to Australia, a part of
it used in wrapping paper there, coming back to England, was the means
of converting this woman."
What an encouragement there is in
such an incident for those who preach the Gospel by means of printer's
ink! Tracts and religious papers have been wonderfully used of God in
the salvation of souls.
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"For
as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that is may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my
word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me
void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:10-11
Come, we will introduce you to the man...
Legend has it that a missionary, lost at sea, was by chance washed up out of the sea on the edge of a remote native village. Half-dead from starvation, exposure, and sea water, he was found by the people of the village and was nursed back to full health. Subsequently, he lived among these people for twenty years... when people were sick, he attended them, sitting long into the night. When people were hungry, he gave them food. When people were lonely, he was a source of company. He taught the ignorant. He was a source of enlightenment to those who were more knowledgeable. He always took the side of those who had been wronged. There was not a single human condition with which he did not identify.
After twenty years had passed, missionaries came from the sea to the village and began talking to the people about a man called Jesus, and after hearing of Jesus, the natives insisted that he had lived among them for the past twenty years. "Come, we will introduce you to the man about whom you have been speaking." The missionaries were led to a hut, and there they found their long-lost fellow missionary whom they had thought dead.
