“I SAY, SAM, there’s to be a good I supper for us fellows down at the hall on Friday night, and I’ve got a ticket for nothing.” So said a newsboy to his friend as they hurried along the street, each with an armful of evening papers. “You can have one too, if you go down to my Sunday school teacher’s house and ask for it. Mr. Kenny said any of us could come.”
Sam set off in eager haste and soon had his free ticket for the evening meal.
On Friday evening a crowd of newspaper boys sat down to supper, all of them poor and hungry. After a hearty supper and some singing, a short gospel address was given by a young fellow who himself had been a newsboy and had been converted. He told how the Lord had saved him and he urged the other boys to trust themselves to Jesus, the Saviour of sinners. All the boys got a gospel story book at the close and all were earnestly invited to come to the “boy’s meeting” on Sunday afternoons.
Sam was greatly delighted and the very next Sunday afternoon he was there seated among the boys, poorly dressed but clean and tidy. He listened attentively to the story of Jesus’ love, and from that day on the Lord began to show him his need of the Saviour.
Every Sunday after that Sam was there and able to repeat the weekly memory verse without a mistake. Before the year was out he had decided for Christ and was happily saved. All who knew Sam saw the great change in him for, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Cor. 5: 17. Around town he was known as “Sam, the converted newsboy.”
Dear reader, have you been converted? Have you like dear Sam found out that you are a sinner, lost, undone and on the way to a dark and hopeless eternity? Whether you have owned this or not, it is true of every one without Christ. But you need not perish. The Lord Jesus is both willing and able to save you even now, just as you are. Only trust Him now as did Sam the newsboy.
ML-02/17/1974