Many years ago a girl of about eighteen years was at M. station, about to take a short train journey. Just before the train started, someone offered her a leaflet which she accepted. She soon saw that it was a tract, telling her that she was a sinner, and that the Lord Jesus was the Saviour of sinners like her. This made her angry; she did not like to be told she needed to be saved, and so indignantly she tore the tract in two and threw the pieces on the platform.
As they lay there, she glanced down at them and the one word “sin” caught her eye. “Sin!” She had never thought of it before. As the train started the engine seemed to say
“S-sin, s-sin, s-sin”—over and over again. “Sin”—what was that? “Sin”—could it be that she really was a sinner? And again the engine repeated “S-sin, s-sin.” How serious it seemed now. There it was again, ‘‘S-sin.’’
At last she could bear it no longer. As the train stopped at the next station, she jumped out, resolved to return to M. She must find out what that tract said about sin.
She caught the first train back and on arrival at M. she hurried up the platform and soon found the torn pieces of paper. She eagerly picked them up and piecing them together, she read the tract through. As she read, she saw the truth. She was indeed a sinner, but,
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.”
What more did she need? She believed that Jesus died for her, and was saved there and then!
She loves to tell how God met her in His grace.
Are you saved? If not, you can he saved now, just as you are, in the same way as this girl was, by taking the Lord Jesus as your Saviour. You have sinned and God says,
“The soul that sinneth it shall die,” but, “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8). May you trust Him as this girl did.
To tract distributors, I would say “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.” Ecclesiastes 11:66In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. (Ecclesiastes 11:6).
ML 02/12/1939