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Edited by Heyman Wreford
THERE is no doubt that this ought to be the case, anyone being turned from Satan to God (Acts 26:18) could never seek to defraud his neighbor. My doctor happened to come in before my breakfast things had been removed. “Ah!” said he, “I am glad you can manage an egg.” “Yes,” I answered, “and these eggs are so different from what I get from the shop—so different!” “Shall I tell you why?” he replied; “we have them from a railway man, a converted man, who would not sell a stale egg for anything—letting his light shine, doing all, ‘in word or deed, in the name of the Lord Jesus’ (Col. 3:17).”
“Ah!” said I, “I can give you another instance how our converted railway men act uprightly as to the Lord: — At St. David’s Station I was waiting for the up train to Bath, and got into conversation with one of the porters, trying to say a word for my Master. I found, to my great joy, the man knew my Master. When the express rushed in I jumped into a carriage, and he handed in my little handbag. I gave him a penny, as I thought. Well, just as the train was moving off quickly this same man rushed to the window, saying, ‘I am sure you gave me this half-crown unintentionally,’ and so sharply did he put it into my hand as the train whirled off that I had no chance to give it back or to give him sixpence instead. Converted purse, you see, as well as heart. He acted uprightly as in God’s sight.”
E.P.L.