A servant of the Lord was one day traveling in a railway car and opposite to him sat a young lady. He invited her to accept a tract. She did so, and thanked him pleasantly, telling him at the same time that it had no interest for her.
“Why not?” he inquired.
“To be frank, I am an unbeliever – an agnostic,” she replied.
“I am sorry to hear it. I trust, however, you will read the little booklet, and think about it. It may be that God in His great mercy will open your eyes.”
This appeared to her like a challenge to an intellectual battle; and being well furnished both for defense and attack, she straightway took up the gauntlet. But she did not know her combatant. The weapons of his warfare were not carnal, but mighty. They were not upon a common plane of thought or of life. She was puzzled; and her heart was irresistibly warmed towards this stranger, so obviously sincere, so interested in her highest welfare, so in love with the things of God – a being whose very existence she had come to doubt – so concerned about her soul.
“I believe the Lord will yet lead you to Himself,” said the Christian. “He is seeking His wandering one, and will find you in the end.”
“I am not at all sanguine as to my conversion,” she laughingly replied. “There are so many questions I should require answers to, first.”
“Will you make me a promise?” he pleaded. “What is it?”
“That when God does convince you of sin, and lead you to Jesus, you will write to me, and let me know?”
“Of course I will promise that, if you would like me to. It will not be yet a while. To whom and where shall I send?”
“Here is my card, and I shall pray on till your letter arrives.”
That letter took eight years in coming; but it came, and was duly delivered at this Christian’s home. This lady has been for years past an earnest and prominent worker among young women; the one bitter regret of her heart being that in her past life she had been so terribly zealous in the spreading of her poisonous skeptical ideas.
“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:5858Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:58)