How wonderful is the story of salvation, if accepted just as it is in simple faith! I was preaching the gospel as simply and faithfully as I could in a little fishing village. 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 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 talked to him about the Lord Jesus as simply as I would have spoken to a child. He was ignorant indeed; but the Holy Spirit had convinced his conscience of the true nature of sin and had 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 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 young fisherman had heard about Jesus, and he had never before been to a meeting where God's people met. He gladly accepted Christ as His Savior, and went on his way rejoicing in Him.