A Christian lawyer said "I had been spending the evening in company with several noted infidels. I had indulged in remarks much to the disadvantage of Christians and disparagement of their religion. I had gone further than ever before in this way.
Coming home I stood late at night on the doorstep waiting for my servant. In this moment of stillness my thoughts returned to what had just passed and what I had said, and then something seemed to say, 'And what if the Christian religion be true after all?' The thought filled me with alarm. I was conscious I had examined Christianity with less attention than a small retaining fee requires in civil cases.
In my profession I hold myself bound to make up my mind according to the laws of evidence; and shall nothing of this sort be done in that which involves the fate of man's immortal being? Here everything is at stake. Shall I bargain all without inquiry? Willfully, blinding my eyes, shall I laugh at that which, if true, will laugh me to scorn in the Day of Judgment? These questions did not allow me to sleep quietly.
In the morning I sent for such books as treated on the evidences of Christianity. I read them, and the result is, I believe the religion of Christians to be the truth, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He made an atonement for our sins by His death, and that He rose for our justification.”
I stood once by the dying bed of an intimate friend, with whom I had spent many an hour of ungodliness, but who, in that last illness, had been led of the Spirit to know Him whom to know is life eternal.
Fears were coursing through my mind as to the everlasting destiny of that immortal soul; and I gave half utterance to them in some observation as to the solemnity of the sinner's position when called to stand before the throne of judgment, saying how awful it was for us to have lived so far away from God.
"Yes, true," was the reply, "but there's the Blood.”
Ere long, from lips evidently touched with a living coal from the atonement altar, there issued, in calm and peaceful tones, the words, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me." Psa. 23:44Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4).