Saved in India
“I am sitting down to write you a few short lines to tell you of the good that I learned from reading ‘How Can I Be Saved?’ I am a private soldier, serving in the Suffolk Regiment in Quetta. I was taking a walk out one evening when I had a tract handed me by a gentleman. He told me to read it, but at that time I did not care whether I read it or not, so I took it to the barrack-room, threw it into my box, and thought no more about it for one or two days.
After I read it I could get no rest or peace anywhere, as those words were on my mind, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.’ I thought I would read it, again, so I took it up again and read it, and felt quite miserable over it. I went to see the gentleman who gave it to me and asked him about it. He told me it was for me to turn to Jesus and all would be right, so I asked him if he would pray for me, and he did. And as he was praying there seemed a voice speaking to me and saying, ‘Come unto Me, and I will give you rest.’ Well, could I not bear it. I fell on my knees and pleaded with Jesus to save me, and told Him what a wicked sinner I was in His sight, and I felt the burden roll from any shoulders, and I got up—not like I was when I knelt down, but I was full of joy because I knew that Jesus had received me. I am still rejoicing in Jesus.”―D. B., 2nd Suffolks, Quetta, India.