I was holding meetings in a fishing village. Every night the meeting house was crowded, and the gospel was preached as simply and faithfully as I could.
One night, among the inquirers who remained after the close of the meeting was a young man about twenty years old. During the address I had noticed his deep, earnest gaze fixed on my face as each word seemed to go straight to his heart. Going up to him, I said: "Do you know Jesus as your Savior?”
"I never heard the likes before," he exclaimed. He added eagerly, "Oh, tell me more about Him.”
I tallied to him, as I would have spoken to a child about the Lord Jesus. He was ignorant indeed; but the Holy Spirit had convinced his conscience of the true nature of sin and touched his heart with a sense of the amazing love of God.
This young man was able to grasp at once the most blessed of all truths: that Christ, the Son of God had died for him. The beauty and majesty of the Person of the One who died for him had captivated his heart. "I'll take Him at His word," he said happily, as we rose to leave. He accompanied me far on my way home, and we still spoke of Him who is the chiefest among ten thousand, the altogether lovely One.
It was the first time this fisher lad had heard about Jesus, for he had never before attended a preaching or entered a place of worship. He gladly accepted Christ as his Savior, and went on his way rejoicing in Him.
God commendeth His love
toward us, in that,
while we were
yet sinners,
Christ died for us.”