I was telling a friend of this wonderful conversion, in the presence of Dr. Wreford, and he said immediately, “Do write it for the Message.” “I hardly like to,” said I, “lest the lady who told me might say ‘You should not have repeated it without my leave.’” Never the less I hope it may be made a blessing to some reader who likewise disbelieves the Gospel message that Jesus Christ the blessed and only Son of God, will save anyone and everyone who comes to Him. “Look unto Me and be ye saved, for I am God, and there is none else” (Isa. 45:2222Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:22)), and in Matt. 2:28, He repeats the message in other words, “Come unto Me, and I will give you rest.”
“I had a great great friend, a gentleman of much worldly experience and scholastic learning, one who evidently had been brought up in evangelical truth and knowledge of divine love, but somehow he pretended to be an agnostic, one who disbelieved the truth as it is in Jesus. When staying with us in London he went out for a walk, and passing down a certain street, he saw in a bill on a building, ‘Come in and hear how I can prove there is no God.’ He thought he would go in and listen, which he did through all the blasphemous tirade the blasphemer of the one true God and Jesus Christ dared to utter. Immediately the man finished, this gentleman arose, and said ‘Now I am going to speak,’ and then with the power of the Holy Ghost upon him, he preached a full and perfect salvation to everyone who would come and believe on the Lord Jesus, and wonderful to say, his sermon was the means, through God’s mercy, of his own conversion. The Holy Spirit there and then convinced him of sin and led him to look to the Saviour, of Whom he was preaching to the congregation. From that day to this,” said my friend, “he has consistently been living Christ and uplifting Him wherever he has the opportunity.”
Oh dear readers, let us follow his example of living Christ in our daily life, for our life is hid with Christ in God (Col. 3:33For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3)).
Emily P. Leakey.