A Hindu storekeeper discovered in his waste basket a piece of paper on which were printed the following words: “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” These are beautiful words, he thought; He liked those words, and he learned them by heart.
Sometime later he was told that those words came from the Gospel of Matthew. Buying a copy of Matthew’s Gospel from a missionary he read it through. By and by he bought a whole New Testament and read that all through. He wondered if there were any “who lived like this Book said” and he was told that true Christians did. He decided to become a Christian himself, and believing in Jesus as his Saviour he became a humble follower of that lowly One. He also became a preacher of the gospel and would often use the text: “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” He would explain to his native listers that only God can give one a pure heart, that it is only through the blood of Jesus His dear Son that sins can be cleansed away.
ML 09/01/1968