ONE Monday morning, there was a telegraphist at work in the West of. England. The young man was in deep anxiety about his soul. He had been awakened by God’s Spirit, knew he was not right, and longed to have Christ. On the Lord’s Day previous he had gone to three separate places of worship, in deep desire that he might get something for his troubled soul. He got nothing. Monday morning came, and he went to his duties. Feeling that he would go mad if he did not get relief and forgiveness, he was in the act of prayer to God, when he heard the peculiar “tick-tick” that let him know his station was called for. He went to his instrument, took out his pencil, and wrote down the name and address of the sender, and the receiver of the message. Then came the message, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:2929The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)). “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace” (Eph. 1:77In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (Ephesians 1:7)). Repeating the message, he cried, “Thank God, I am saved: I have got it: I see it!”
He told a friend of mine afterward, “That ‘LAMB OF GOD,’ that ‘REDEMPTION,’ that ‘BLOOD,’ that ‘RICHES OF HIS GRACE,’ went right down into my poor heart, and no one in the whole world could have had greater joy than I had that Monday morning.”
Friend, have you that joy?
W. T. P. W.