A business man was led to see himself a sinner, and this feeling led him to try to find a Saviour, His earnest desire was to have his soul saved. He gave up doing anything he knew to be wrong. He began to hold family worship at home, and attended church regularly. Still he did not feel right. The burden of sin on his conscience grew heavier all the time. He was trying to save himself by his own good works. But we know that this is impossible, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Eph. 2:8, 98For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8‑9).
One day, while going along One of the crowded streets of the city, he reached a spot where a blind man used to sit and read aloud from a Bible with raised type known as Braille — that wonderful invention by which the blind are enabled to read through the ends of their fingers.
As the business man passed by, the blind man was reading from Acts 4:1212Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12); “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
When in the middle of this verse, he came to the bottom of the page; and, as he was turning over the leaf, he repeated several times the last three words on the page read: “None other name” — “None other name.” The business man went on his way, but he could not forget the words he had heard; “None other name” —“None other name.” He went home at night, when the business of the day was over. As he entered the house, “None other name” — “None other name,” were the words still sounding in his ears. He retired to rest; but as he laid his head upon his pillow, the last sound he seemed to hear before falling asleep, and the first on awaking in the morning, was still that of the same re-echoing words, “None other name,” — “None other name.”
And then he said to himself, “I see now what it means. I have been making a mistake. I have been thinking that praying, and reading the Bible, and going to church would save me. This was my mistake. It is only Jesus who can save. I must cast myself on Him.”
And then, with the simple faith of a little child, he went to Jesus in prayer, and asked Him to pardon and save him. The Lord Jesus heard and answered his prayer, and the business man was filled with peace and joy in believing.
ML 02/05/1961