One day a boy was walking down a street in Melbourne, Australia, when he came upon a man who was lying drunk on the sidewalk.
His heart went out in pity and he stopped and looked at him and wondered what he could do. Not being strong enough to carry him, he did not see how he could help him.
He turned to go, when suddenly he thought of his Bible which he carried in his pocket. What should he do? That Bible was his mother’s gift, yet he was sure she would be pleased if he did what now had come into his mind.
Taking his Bible from his pocket, he slipped it gently into the man’s pocket and went his way.
Some years later the boy, now a young man, was fishing outside Wanganta, Victoria, and had chosen a place beside a stream for his midday rest when he saw another man had pitched his camp among the trees close by. This stranger invited him to come and sit down and share his refreshment with him, and they talked together.
Then he told him how he had been a drunkard in Melbourne, but one day when he came to his senses he had found a Bible in his pocket. He began to read it, and it had changed his life. Taking up a book that was lying on the grass at his side, he said, “This is the very Book that put me right.”
The young man opened it. Yes! it was his mother’s gift! What a thrill filled his heart as he realized what a blessing had come to a drunkard through his simple act so long ago.
Have you a Bible? Has it put you right? If not, will you read how one in the Bible found out the way? Read Acts 16:16-40.
“What must I do to be saved?... Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”
“CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WERS: FOR THOU SHALT FIND IT AFTER MANY DAYS.” Eccles. 11:1.
ML 07/23/1961