A BOY named John once saw on his way to Sunday school a number of ragged boys of his own age, playing in the street. He begged them to come to Sunday school with him.
But only one agreed to come — a boy without a hat or coat. When they arrived at the door, the boy saw all the children inside were well dressed, and he wanted to run away again.
“I won’t go in there,” he said. “I haven’t even a coat on!”
“Here is my coat,” said John, and quickly pulling off his coat, he helped the other put it on. So both of them went in.
“I know that incident very well,” said the Christian teacher who told the story, “for I was the boy who once had no coat; and Dr. John Paton, that famous missionary of the New Hebrides, was the one who gave me his!”
That devoted soul winner, who in later years was used to bring in so many people from heathendom with the net of the gospel of the grace of God in Christ Jesus, began even as a boy to lead souls to the Lord Jesus. He sought out such in his immediate neighborhood who knew nothing of the Lord.
ML-02/03/1974