WHEREVER YOU are you may receive Christ as your Saviour — at home, at school, at work, and even as you read this paper. Jim Madsen, a farmer’s boy, told the story of how he received Christ as his Saviour out in the field of his father’s farm.
“We were working with the hay. I had been attending meetings held by an evangelist in the town for two weeks. What the preacher said about lost sinners very much troubled me for I knew I was such a one. Three others at our farm were saved during those meetings, and they sang for joy all day long as they worked in the field. But I was miserable.
“When lunch time came we stopped our work but instead of joining the others I sat alone. I suppose the others knew what was wrong with me for one who had been my companion in sin came over to me and said, "‘Jim, you will never be happy until you are saved. You should just take Jesus as your Saviour, and be happy like the rest of us.’
"'How did you take Him?’ I asked, for that was the difficulty with me.
"'I just said, “If Jesus saves sinners, and I am a sinner, He’ll save me.” I took Him by believing He died for me, just for myself, as if there had been no other sinner.’
“I saw then what was meant by taking Jesus, and without saying anything, I took Him as my Saviour that afternoon in the hayfield, and I knew I was saved.”
ML-04/07/1963