IN a small room we sat, three young men and the writer, on either side of a square table. They had attended a Gospel service the previous night, and had desired an interview with me.
First of all I told them plainly God's way of salvation as He has revealed it to us in His holy Word, and then I let them talk, in order to discover what their thoughts were.
After a while one of them said, “But it is no use asking us to believe, for we can't unless God makes us; must we not wait until the Spirit moves us?”
I replied, "My friend, it is not a question of can't,' but ' won't.' I want you to suppose for a moment that you can believe the Gospel, and accept Christ as your Savior.”
“Well," he said, "now supposing that.”
“Wilt thou take the Lord Jesus Christ to be thy Savior now?”
He looked at me, and I looked at him in silence for a while, and then I repeated the question: "Wilt thou take the Lord Jesus Christ to be thy Savior to-night?”
Again there was silence, and then, as his eyes filled with tears, he stretched his right hand across the table, and took mine with a warm grip, and said, "I will.”
All the difficulties disappeared on the spot, and the dear fellow rejoiced at once in the Savior.
Is it with you, reader, a case of "Can't," or “Won't "? J. T. M.