"How long have you been converted?" we asked of a young man the other day.
"About fifteen months."
"How did it come about? Was it through any special evangelistic service, or how?"
"No, it was by means of a young lady—a personal friend—that I was brought to know the Lord."
"Any particular passage of Scripture used?"
"It was not so much what she said that first arrested me, as her consistent, godly life. I was powerfully impressed by it, and that was how the work began in my soul."
Precious and beautiful testimony!
Preachers of that school are everywhere needed, and such preaching will be signally blessed of God. Aspire to be a preacher of that sort. No great gift is needed, no rich intellectual endowment, and you may begin at once. Now preaching with the tongue has its necessary limits, but this kind has none. A godly, consistent life is a continual sermon full of unction and power.
It is this kind of testimony that the Apostle Peter alludes to in the third chapter of his first epistle. He supposes a believing wife having an unbelieving husband. She cannot bring the Word before him with her voice. He will not stand it; and she, knowing this, says nothing. But her life is in itself powerful preaching—so wise, so discreet, with so much of Christ interwoven with it. And the unconverted husband is won by this—not driven, but won.
Christian men and women, boys and girls, in every station of life, who by God's grace will preach such sermons from January to December, are needed.