AN EVANGELIST once came into a small town in Minnesota to preach the gospel. He rented a room and held his first meeting. At the close of the service, he noticed a young girl carrying a Bible. She was the only Christian in the town, as far as any one knew.
"How come you are the only Christian here?" the evangelist asked her. In reply she told him her story:
"One day I was playing with my brothers and sisters on the farm which Daddy had recently bought. There was an old hand-dug well there that had not been used for a long time. We didn't know it was there. I fell down the well.
"No one saw me fall. The well had several feet of water in the bottom. I would have drowned down there in that deep well had it not been for a plank which held my head above water.
"My brothers and sisters told my parents that no one could find me. My parents searched for me for hours. But down there in the well I called upon Jesus to save my soul, and He did. Then I cried out as loud as I could. My parents heard me and they saved me from the well.
"I was saved twice that day. The Lord Jesus saved my soul, and my parents saved me from the well.
"After that, I received a Bible as a gift from a friend out of town, and I will never part with it down here. That is the reason I carry my Bible. As far as I know I am the only Christian in town."
The little Christian girl grew up and went to live in another place. There she found a group of Christians and enjoyed their fellowship. One day on the farm as she drove a tractor she came too close to a ditch. The tractor turned over and pinned her underneath. She went home to heaven to be with the Lord Jesus she loved.
Because of her life of faith, and the evangelist's visit, there was a real work of God begun in the town. God blessed her testimony: "I was saved twice, deep down in the well."
"Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water." John 7:37,3837In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:37‑38).
Messages of the Love of God 6/15/1975