A FEW days ago, a Christian man got into an omnibus that was passing over London Bridge, and as he did so, he handed the conductor a tract on “The value of the death of Christ.”
The conductor immediately began reading it with apparent attention. Soon, however, he stepped down to the lower doorstep, and looking into the omnibus, said to the gentleman, “There is a mistake in your book, sir!”
“Indeed!” was the reply, “I was not aware of that or I should not have offered it to you; what is it?”
The conductor then read “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone.” “Now, sir,” said he, “It ought to be, ‘except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and live;’ there is no sense in it, as it is written here.”
The man listened with interest as the words were explained to him, but is it not true that very many are like him in not understanding that the only way whereby a sinner dead in sins can live, is through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ? Unless Jesus had died, He had ever remained alone, not one solitary sinner could have had part with Him in resurrection-life. He would have gone back to the heavens from whence He came, and would have been the only man in glory. But thanks be to God, by His death “much fruit” is brought forth. Thousands, yes millions of men are made fit to dwell with Him forever.
H. L. T.