In Geneva, a visitor saw this nice in a watchmaker’s shop window: “CLOCKS CONVERTED TO CHIMING.”
By this he supposed that the watchmaker could take an ordinary clock, add certain mechanism and change it into a clock that chimed.
This reminds us that it is only after a sinner has been CONVERTED that he can sing a song of praise unto the Lord. And that song is first learned when in true repentance he turns to the Saviour and finds the burden of his sins taken away and himself brought to God.
The first singing we read of in the Bible was when the children of Israel, just redeemed out of Egypt, were standing on the banks of the Red Sea. When they saw their enemies dead on the sea shore, they burst forth into that wonderful song of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord. Well might they sing in the joy and gladness of their hearts, for they had been delivered from Pharaoh’s power, God had brought them to Himself, and they stood, as it were, on redemption ground. Dear reader, have you been redeemed from this Egypt world? Are you too standing on redemption ground?
Dr Laws, of Livingstonia, in his missionary talk, told the pupils gathered in a classroom of the great change that has come to many children of Central Africa. Before the gospel came, they were filled with dread and fear of evil spirits. Now, the sweet story of salvation through faith in Jesus has given them a new song. Thousands of native children delight in singing gospel hymns and choruses, because they believe in the Saviour.
In a leper asylum in the Far East, a lady missionary was addressing the leper women. Before closing, she asked for their favorite hymn. At once the ruest came: “Sing that hymn,
“‘I feel like singing all the time,
My tears are wiped away;
For Jesus is a Friend of mine;
I’ll praise Him every day.’”
These poor believing leper women could sing the new song. Can you?
ML 02/15/1959