Two teenage boys were on their way home from school. Both were ambitious young lads, full of health and high hopes, in the bright morning of oath. One was ambitious to be a doctor, and the other longed to win souls for Christ.
Like many another young Christian, the schoolboy did not know what to say. Besides this his companion was not interested and soon forgot all he had said to him. What was the use?
But there was one thing the would be-doctor never forgot — the unmistakable earnestness and sincerity of his friend's manner when he spoke of the Word of God.
The years passed by and he was successful in his studies and graduated with honors, but was attacked by an inflammation of the eyes. It was so serious and painful that for eighteen months he could not read or write. He went to Switzerland to recover his health, and here the Word sown long before in his young heart began to spring up. He remembered that the Word of God had somehow brought joy and peace to his school friend long ago, and he now wanted to search that same Word for himself. As soon as he was able to read, he obtained a New Testament.
"The Holy Spirit," said he, "made the words good to my soul, and I was converted to God while in Switzerland, at the age of twenty-four." He returned to his home town, where no gospel light was shining, and there he shone brightly for his Saviour for many years.
Messages of the Love of God 3/2/1958