WHEREVER you are you may receive Christ. A farmer’s boy told the story of how he received Christ in the hayfield:
“We were working with the hay. I had been attending meetings held by an evangelist in the town for two weeks, and was very much troubled about my soul. Three at our farm were saved, and they sang all day in the field. I was miserable. At dinner-time I sat alone, and I suppose the others saw what was wrong with me. One who had been my companion in sin, came across to where I sat, and said,
‘Jamie, you will never be happy till you are saved. You should just take Jesus as your Saviour, and be happy like the rest of us.’
“How did you take Him?” I asked, for the ‘taking’ was the difficulty with me.
‘I just said, “If Jesus saves sinners, I am a sinner, and He’ll save me.” I took him by believing He died for ME, just for myself, as if there had been no other.’
“I saw then what was meant by ‘taking’ Jesus, and without saving anything to anybody, I took Him as my Saviour that afternoon, and I knew I was saved.”
ML 06/11/1922