At an open-air gospel meeting the preacher asked for testimonies. While this was going on a skeptic was passing by just when the testimony of a saved drunkard was being given. He stopped and listened. The former drunkard was telling how Jesus had wrought a miracle and saved his poor soul.
The skeptic scoffingly made a few remarks to those standing near him. He said "it was nothing more than a dream, religion saving a man in this manner—just a mere dream, and nothing more." No one answered him—but God had His way of dealing with him.
Among the listeners was a little girl about ten years old. She had known the misery of a drunkard's home. She heard the remark of the skeptic and, going up to him, she said: "Please, sir, if it is only a dream, please don't wake him—that is my daddy!”
The simplicity and earnestness of the child arrested the skeptic. It made him think, and ultimately led to his conversion. Then the marvelous grace of God became a grand reality and no dream to him.