The Sergeant's Boots

From: Messages of God's Love: 1969

• 1 min. read • grade level: 8

IT WAS wartime, and at the soldier barracks gospel meetings were held in the evenings. Many a soldier yielded to the claims of Christ, and often the little place used as an inquiry room was filled with big fellows in uniform down on their knees seeking God.

One soldier, after his conversion, was greatly persecuted by a godless sergeant who threw his boots at the young convert as he knelt in prayer. Nothing daunted, the young Christian got up early next morning and carefully cleaned the sergeant’s boots! The next night the same thing happened. This went on for several nights until the sergeant, now under deep conviction of sin, came to Gypsy Hawkin’s meeting and was soundly converted.

Memory Verse “COME NOW, AND LET US REASON TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD: THOUGH YOUR SINS BE AS SCARLET, THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW.” Isaiah 1:18¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18).

“Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.” Isaiah 55:1¹Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isaiah 55:1).

“If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.” John 7:37³⁷In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. (John 7:37). “He that believeth on Me shall never thirst.” John 8:35³⁵And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. (John 8:35).

ML-07/13/1969

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