A GOSPEL preacher arrived one night in a Canadian lumber camp, and after some discussion he was given permission to hold a gospel meeting in the big dining hut.
Most of the men came to the meeting, and the story of Christ's redeeming love, and of His death on Calvary's cross was faithfully preached to them. They listened very quietly and looked quite interested, but none of them accepted the Lord Jesus as their own.
Later that night a knock came at the door of the but where the preacher was to sleep, and in walked the foreman of the camp, a big Scotsman. He went straight to the point. "Sir," he said, "you said tonight that the Lord Jesus can save sinners. Well, I'm a sinner and I want to be saved tonight.'
They got down on their knees together, and do you what that big man prayed? It was the only prayer he knew; the one he had his mother's knee away hack in Scotland.
"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child,
Pity my simplicity,
Suffer me to come to Thee."
Do you think the Lord Jesus heard that prayer and received him? Of course He did, and you may come to Jesus too, for He has said, "Him that cometh to 1Vle 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).
Messages of God’s Love 9/18/1949