A DOCTOR’S WIFE was asked to visit a sick girl in a hospital, but found her mind was wandering. All her cry was that she was lost—too great a sinner to be saved —Jesus would not have her. It was distressing to hear her, her visitor related: “For some minutes I stood irresolute; it seemed useless to attempt to speak to her, for she appeared quite unconscious of things around. Then I remembered: “The Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:1212For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)). I thought, “What is to hinder its entering even here?” So I sat down by the bed, and as clearly and distinctly as I could, though in a low tone, repeated these three verses again and again: “The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:1010For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10)); “The blood of Jesus Christ His [God’s] Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)); “Jesus said, Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)).
The woman in the next bed said, “It’s no use talking to her, she has not been conscious since last night; and they do not expect her to be again, though she has raved about these things ever since she came in.”
I knew well it must seem useless; but still with a strong conviction that God’s words could find an entrance where man’s could not, I still repeated them a great many times—how many I do not know. She grew composed and quiet, the look of agony and despair went away from her face, and now she kept murmuring—“To seek and to save—to seek and to save from all sin.” She died that night, so I never saw her again, but just before she died she opened her eyes, and said quite clearly: “The blood of Jesus Christ God’s Son cleanseth us from all sin,” and never spoke again.
Another bed was at right angles to this poor girl’s, near enough for every word spoken in one to be distinctly heard in another. In it lay another sick girl. She did not wait for me to speak, but began eagerly, “Those words were all for me that you have been repeating. I was lost, and so He came to seek and save me; I am full of sin, but the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. I have come to Him this morning, and He will not cast me out. Tell me more about Him. Do read me more.”
These two poor girls believed that the Lord Jesus meant what He said. They rested their safety for eternity on the word of Him who cannot lie. They were like another, a noted character on Edinburgh streets, who was awakened to a sense of his sin, but in despair cried out that he was too bad to be saved. The words of the Lord Jesus were read to him: “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” It was enough. “That’ll do,” he said “I’LL BELIEVE JESUS!” Reader, will you?
NO WRONG WAY
After an evangelist had been speaking with an old woman for a time, as to the importance of coming to Christ, she said, “I’d come if I could come in the right way.” “Then come at once,” he replied, “for there is no wrong way of coming to Christ.”