One summer a Christian nurse was spending her vacation in a country town. She used to purchase fruit and vegetables at a store whose owner, a friendly village woman, was always happy to have an opportunity for conversation, if her customers were so inclined.
One day, this woman told the nurse of a Christian who had recently left the town. "I shall never forget him,” said she, "for he was the means of leading my husband to the Savior.
"John had been sick for seventeen weeks. During that time, Mr. Ward came very often to see him. Once when he was explaining to my poor husband about sin, he says to him, 'We are all sinners, you and me.' And," added the woman, "the 'me' did it! If he had said 'you' are a sinner, my husband would never have listened to him. He would not even have let him stay in his room!”
The poor invalid evidently had had a proud, unbroken spirit. But when the Christian visitor wisely but humbly took his place with him as by nature a sinner, John's resistance was broken down and he accepted the Savior. Indeed, "The 'Me' did it.”