IF you are saved, no doubt you like to tell others about the love of Christ. We would like to tell you today about a young man who used to visit the Grace Dart Hospital in Montreal from week to week in order to speak words of comfort, as well as words of warning to those who were confined there. His earnest desire was that they might learn to know the Lord Jesus Christ as, their Saviour, and trust in His finished work.
Stopping one day at the bedside of one of the patients he found him quite friendly and ready to talk. There were so many around who, sad to say, had little concern about eternal things, and did not want to listen to the Words-of life, that it was a cheer to find one who was willing to talk of these things. The young man, though suffering with T. B. gladly told his own story in the following words.
“A few weeks ago I had a very bad hemorrhage, and believed my time was up. I thought I was going to die. A young lady, passing my bed on the way out of the hospital, stopped for a moment, and said ‘How are you?’ I replied, ‘I almost passed out last week.’ Where would you have gone if you had,’ she said. I replied ‘To hell’ so she handed me a copy of the New Testament and said, ‘The visiting hours are up, but please read this book.’ I did read it, and I found out two things: first, I was a sinner and second, Christ is a Saviour.”
This dear man was rejoicing in the Lord Jesus. He wrote several letters in which he told of the Lord’s grace and goodness, and he longed to get better so that he might testify for Him. In one of his letters he wrote about the three crosses, and it was very plain that he knew the saving power of Christ.
His condition became gradually worse, and now he has gone—gone to be with the One who saved him, and filled his last months on earth with such joy—joy which only Christ Himself can give. Some day these two young men, and the young lady who gave the Testament too, shall meet together in His presence, and trace back over the days spent here. Each will be able to tell of how they were brought to know the Lord Jesus as their own personal Saviour.
Dear children, where are you going when you die? Or if the Lord should come before you die, will you go to meet Him in the air? Trust Him as your Saviour NOW, and know on the authority of God’s own precious Word that “Whosoever believeth in Him should not p.erish, but HAVE everlasting life.” John 3:1515That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:15).
Messages of the Love of God 4/11/1948