A sad-faced woman was offered a gospel tract.
“What is it?” she asked.
“A little tract that tells you how Jesus died to save poor lost sinners,” replied the Christian worker.
“I am a poor lost sinner,” she replied, “and when I am drinking I am wicked and angry.
“One day when my children came home from school for dinner, I was drunk and had no food to give them. They begged for something to eat, and I beat them and sent them back to school without anything to eat.”
As she told that part of her story, she wept bitterly and said, “Oh, man, do you think that God would save a poor drunken mother that beat her children and sent them back to school without their dinner?”
He assured her that God would save her, proving from the Bible all that he said.
Her reply was, “Oh, man, you wouldn’t deceive a poor sinner like me, would you?”
He then read her Isaiah 1:1819: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing.” Then he added: “God is willing. Are you willing?”
“My God, I am willing!” she cried as she dropped on her knees. She was born again, and her joy knew no bounds.
The Christian had never met her husband, but about four months later he received a letter from him. He wrote to say that he felt he should thank him for the great change that had taken place in his home, and then added, “I don’t understand about being saved and being ‘born again’ that my wife is always talking about, but this I do understand: My home was made miserable for years through my wife’s drinking, but now she is so changed that home has been made a perfect heaven for four months. I hope I may share my wife’s joy soon!”