A sailor boy, whose captain was a terrible swearer, was shocked at his blasphemy and defiance of God. One day he walked up to the captain, and courteously touching his cap remarked,
“Captain, God is the answerer of prayer. If He answers that prayer of yours, where will we all be?”
The captain said the words fastened upon his conscience with irresistible power, and made him tremble before God.
He was deeply convicted of sin, and was soon after converted to God. This was James Haldane.
Through his instrumentality, his brother Robert, who was at that time an infidel, was brought to Jesus, and the two brothers, James and Robert, became two of God’s most honored servants of their time, and were used in winning many souls for Christ.
The sailor boy who had learned at his mother’s knee the story of a Saviour’s love, and whose young heart had been early won for Him, was not afraid, amid that scoffing crew of godless sailors, to own Jesus as his Lord, and to speak the faithful word to his ungodly captain, that God was pleased to use to his awakening.
Reader, if you know the Lord yourself: if you are converted to God, do you bear a true and fearless witness for His name, or do you stand and hear that name blasphemed, and His truth dishonored, without saying a single word?
ML 04/05/1936