A CHRISTIAN lady was travelling to R— She was alone in the carriage, but just as the train was starting, a woman with a very sorrowful countenance got into the compartment. The sorrow of the woman was so marked that Miss E. was constrained to ask her if she were in trouble. Some time elapsed before the woman answered, and then she replied rather sharply, “Yes! I am."
“Is it family trouble?” enquired the Christian tenderly.
Very reluctantly the reply came, “No," and the eyes of the woman filled with tears.
Both remained silent for some time, and then Miss E. asked: “Is it soul trouble?”
"Yes," replied the woman eagerly ; and then she told the story of her trouble-how that for six years she had been seeking salvation, going to hear different preachers-mentioning the names of some-and endeavoring in every way she could to find salvation, but all to no purpose.
“You have been looking to man and not to Jesus," said Miss E.
“Oh! no," replied the woman ; " there is no Savior for me."
"Do you mean to say that Jesus died for everybody in the world but you?"
“It seems like it," was the reply.
Sitting by the side of the woman, Miss E. read slowly, "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,"—laying great stress on the word " whosoever." She read it a second time, again pausing at the word “whosoever," and then said: "Are you included in the 'who-soever’? or does it mean everybody but you ?"
The woman did not speak for a moment, but presently, looking Miss E. full in the face, said, with tears: “I see it now. How clear you have made it! Why did I not see it before?"
Reading the verse once more, they thanked the Lord together.
They remained alone till the woman reached her destination, and she, who had longed and searched for salvation for six years, stepped out of the railway carriage rejoicing in Christ as her Savior.
Miss E. has since received letters from the woman, which tell of her thankfulness and joy in the Lord.
Dear reader, learn from the foregoing that "whosoever” takes in you. W. W. H.