Preaching Christ

A CHRISTIAN doctor, a native of India, once told a friend of ours that the great need in that heathen country was, not an attack upon Oriental philosophies, as is so often the case, but the preaching of Christ.
When the devoted servant of God, the late Mr. Hay Macdowall Grant, of Arndilly, was dying, he said: “I think if I were raised up again I would only preach for twenty minutes instead of for an hour, and just set Christ before the people as directly and simply as ever I could.”
Turning to the Scriptures, we find that when the midnight earthquake, the shaking of the foundations of the prison of Philippi, the loosed bands of the prisoners, the unhinging of the huge iron prison doors, revealed to the jailer that by ill-treating Paul and Silas he was insulting One who not only was far above all pagan gods, but whose power and authority were resistless, the cry of distress was forced from his heart and lips, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” and this cry was at once met by the presentation of a living, personal Saviour — one both able and suitable: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)).