PASSING through New York,” says a minister, “I was talking with a young gentleman, who from my conversation and inquiries judged me to be a stranger in the city.
“What do you think of our great city?” said he.
“I am not much impressed with it;” was my reply, “and, indeed, I belong to a much finer city.”
“Do you? What city is that? London?”
“No,” I replied.
“Liverpool?”
“No; much finer than either of these.” “What city then can it be?”
“That city which hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God.”
“I have never heard of that city;” the young man said.
“What,” I replied, “is it possible that such an intelligent young man as you seem to be can possibly be so ignorant!”
Dear children, those of us who know the Lord Jesus as our Saviour, let us tell others the way to be saved.
“Tell it again! tell it again!
Salvation’s story repeat o’er and o’er,
Till none can say of the children of men,
‘Nobody ever has told me before!’”
ML 01/29/1922