Sixteen-year-old Thomas Hoopoo, freshly out of a mission school for Indians, was introduced to a famous lawyer and, along with several others, spent the evening with him.
The lawyer, who was not a Christian, entertained the company for a long time by asking Thomas questions. He quizzed him unmercifully about his people and their customs, their manners, their pleasures, and specially their religion as compared with Christianity. When at last he stopped, Thomas spoke out before them all.
“I am a poor Indian boy,” he said. “It is not strange that my answers should seem amusing to you. But soon there will be a larger meeting than this. We shall all be there. Then there will only be one important question: ‘Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?’
“Now, sir, I think I can say, ‘Yes.’ What will you say, sir?”
He stopped. Silently, the group separated, each going home for the night.
But there was no rest for the great attorney. The question asked by Thomas Hoopoo kept ringing in his ears: “What will you say, sir?”
The Spirit of God had touched his conscience, and he found no rest till he could answer, “Yes,” to the searching question asked by that young Indian.