In England a sailor with a happy smiling face gave a bright Christian testimony in a seamen’s mission.
“I found Christ over in America,” he said. “When our ship docked in New York harbor, they paid us sailors off and I took my money and went to a tavern. Pretty soon I was drunk. When I went out on the street, the snow was beating against my face. As I walked along I heard some singing. I stopped to listen. In the Water Street Mission people were singing:
I am so glad that our Father in heaven
Tells of His love in the Book He has given;
Wonderful things in the Bible I see,
This is the dearest that Jesus loves me.
I am so glad that Jesus loves me—
Jesus loves even me!
“I thought, ‘I’ll go and see about that.’ I went in and Jerry McAuley led me to Jesus, the Saviour!”
When the sailor had finished his testimony, his wife remarked, “It’s been ‘Jesus Loves Even Me’ ever since Johnny’s ship came home. They used to call him ‘Swearing Johnny’ but now I call him ‘Singing Johnny.’ He is always singing about Jesus!”
ML-03/04/1979