A PREACHER of the gospel was struck by the extraordinary beauty of a young woman’s voice, who sat next to him.
Some days later, when calling on her, he asked if she loved the Savior, and was one of His sheep? She answered rather indifferently: “I am not a Christian, and besides that, I don’t think that I love the Savior.”
“Then, my dear friend,” said the preacher, “what will you do with that voice throughout eternity? Must it serve to bewail the lost eternally?” He said no more, but with a grieved heart left her to her own reflections.
The serious question followed her everywhere—during the day it rang in her ears, and at night was mingled in her dreams. In fact it never left her, until she found peace through faith in Jesus, and was prepared to join in the joyful songs of praise with God’s children on earth; and now she is waiting until she can sing the new song with the redeemed, saying, “Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.”
ML-11/14/1920