I HAVE recently heard of the conversion of a young man, whom the Lord was pleased to save in answer to much prayer.
His father, mother, and sister were Christians, and he went with them willingly to gospel services, prayer meetings, and Bible readings. He seemed to have a great desire to know Christ as his Saviour; still, on being asked if he was saved, he would say “he hoped to be.”
The enemy thus hindering him from entering into peace, I asked him on one occasion why he did not decide for Christ. He answered that he did not know what it was, but felt that something was holding him back.
I invited him to attend a meeting at a few miles’ distance, and he accompanied me by train. We had to walk back, and as we went along, I was much impressed to ask him to decide there and then, believing that the Lord was only waiting to hear his “I will.”
After some hesitation, he said, frankly, “Yes, I will decide.” Light broke upon his soul as I repeated this text to him, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life,” and, fully trusting in Christ, he was enabled to say that he knew he was saved.
He has since taken his stand with the people of God in his neighborhood.
E. R.