A MISSIONARY went down to South America some years ago. He had a love for souls, and he longed to tell them of the Saviour and of His power to save them from sin and judgment to come—to make them fit for heaven instead.
He could not speak their language and longed for the day when he could talk to them in their own tongue. All the while, he sensed their common hatred for those who brought the Gospel.
One day, a poor man lay at death’s door in a hotel, sick with a dread disease. No one cared or went near him. However, the missionary we to the sick man and patiently nursed him back to health. From then an, he felt people had a little respect for him.
Souls were saved in that city, and there was violent persecution of the Christians at times.
Some years ago a crowd gathered around a home where a few believers had gathered for a gospel meeting. They intended to break up the gathering. The leader seized a you Christian boy named David and asked him: “Do you have eternal life?”
The boy answered unwaveringly, “Yes, I’m sure I have eternal life,”
They lifted him high in the air and jeered at him, saying, “Here’s one who says he has eternal life!” Then one struck the boy on the back of the head. David’s response to the angry mob was another faithful confession: “I know I am saved.”
Dear boy, he was not ashamed of Christ. Are you?
Jesus the Saviour is of boys and girls,
None other ever could save boys and girls,
He will wash their sins away,
He will keep them day by day,
He will wash their sins away,
He will keep them day by day, His boys and girls.
Jesus first, Jesus last, and Jesus all along,
In our work, in our play, and in our song;
In the darkness, in the light,
Peaceful times, or in the fight,
I am safe and all is right;
For Jesus never, never fails,
For Jesus never fails.
ML-09/14/1969