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Edited by Algernon J. Pollock
SAM entered the postal service as a telegraph boy, and by diligence and attention to duty wrought his way up to the position of village postmaster. When he was a youth of eighteen, he was brought to the Lord by means of a tract which had been dropped by some one in front of a pillar-box, which it was his duty to clear three times a day. He picked up the silent messenger, put it in his pocket, and hurried away to his next pillar-box.
When alone that night, he read the tract through, and it showed him he was unprepared to die and unfit to meet God.
Yes, the truth has a power all its own, and apart from any human instrumentality, alone in his little room, the young collector found out he was a sinner in need of a Saviour, and that he required to be born again before he could enter God’s kingdom.
A companion to whom he told his trouble, pointed him to John 3:16,16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) and he there saw that as part of the world, God loved him, and gave His only begotten Son to be his Saviour. Then he put in his name where the “whosoever” stands, and claimed the “everlasting life” which anybody and everybody who believes is said by God to possess at once and forever.
You are as welcome to do this, reader, as he was. There is no restriction, nobody shut out. That “whosoever” includes you, and if you will put your own name in where it stands, and “make the free gift your own,” you will be saved and set on the way to glory, as surely as was the young letter collector. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His oily begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in Him should not perish, but HAVE everlasting life” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)).
H. FRIEND.