GYPSY HAWKINS, the converted gypsy and evangelist, was used much of God in leading souls to Christ. On one occasion, when he was in Canada, at Rossland he had the joyful and unique privilege of leading a man to Christ at the boom of a coal mine.
One of the officials of the Le Roi gold mine invited the Gypsy to take a tour of the mine. They got into the cage and had a sudden drop of 2000 feet. Then they got into an electric car and drove for nearly two miles in the bowels of the earth.
After inspecting the machinery and the workings of the mine the official took Mr. Hawkins to the scene of a recent accident. Here they had a long talk and the man opened his heart to the Gypsy. God had been speaking to him very definitely at the gospel services. He admitted that he was not a converted man and said, “When you give the invitation tonight, I’ll be the first to come out for God.”
“Why wait till tonight?” answered Mr. Hawkins. “God is no respecter of persons or of places? Why not settle the matter now?”
They knelt down together beside a heap of rubbish—the result of the accident—and there in the depths of the coal mine 2000 feet underground that mine official accepted Christ as his Saviour. Rising from his knees he said, “Gypsy, I have found many a rich nugget of gold in this mine, but now I have experienced the greatest of all. I have found Jesus Christ as my Saviour.”
How happy is the one who has found Christ? He is rich beyond all the dreams of human greed. He has a treasure in the heavens which neither man nor demon can take from him. Have you found this treasure in Christ, dear reader? Is he your Saviour?
ML-03/25/1973