Rabbinowitz, the celebrated Jewish lawyer, tells of his conversion to Christ early in the nineteen forties. He had gone to Palestine to secure some land for resettling his fellow-countrymen who were being driven from other countries. He was advised to use a New Testament as a guide to good locations in that country.
Standing on Mt. Olivet with this book in his hand, he read from the words of Christ the foretelling of judgment consequent on His rejection. He saw how that prophecy had been and was still being fulfilled, and a divine flash of conviction broke upon his soul: the rejected Nazarene was the Messiah! There and then, Rabbinowitz believed in the Sent One of God. Through the operation of the Holy Ghost, he became a Christian, and is content to follow the lowly Nazarene.
Born and bred in the very heart of Orthodox Judaism, Leopold Cohn says: "I did not know anything about the Lord Jesus Christ or His claims; I did not even know of the existence of a New Testament."
Being a devout Jew, he knew well the writings of old: the law, the prophets, and the Psalms. In the study of these Old Testament books, he became convinced that Messiah had already come, but he was completely in the dark as to who He was.
Pressed in spirit to go to New York, Mr. Cohn found himself one afternoon outside Mr. Warszawiak's mission in that great city. A brother Jew drew him away, saying, "You had better come away from there. There are some apostates in that church who mislead our Jewish nation."
"How, how, I pray?" asked Mr. Cohn.
"They say," was the reply, "that Messiah is come already."
After hearing this, Mr. Cohn could find no rest till he had interviewed Mr. Warszawiak. He gladly stayed for a time at the Mission Home with that godly man, and by constant prayer and searching the Scriptures, he said: "I became convinced in my own soul that Jesus of Nazareth is my blessed Savior and mighty Redeemer."
Blessed it is when a son of Abraham, of a people who sat in darkness, is drawn to see the great light of God's love and in Christ to find their promised Messiah. How sad when enlightened Christendom turns from that love to embrace the beggarly elements of this world and the blinding darkness of Satan's blandishments. For this day of apostasy, when many are turning from God and His Son, John 3:3636He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36) was fittingly written: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." John 3:3636He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36).