In Michigan last winter a Christian lady sat in a gospel hall and listened to a faithful message from the evangelist who urged souls to come to Christ while yet there was time. Beside her sat another lady who was a total stranger.
The stranger was visibly shaken by the stirring appeal, and the Christian felt an irresistible urge to speak to her. Slipping her arm around the affected soul she asked her if she were a Christian.
“No,” was the reply.
“Trust Christ as your Saviour now, and you will receive salvation and eternal life at once,” her friend said to her.
It was evident that she had been impressed by her responsibility to her little two-year-old daughter, for she sobbed, “Yes, I would like to be a Christian so that I could be a better mother to my little girl.”
Before leaving they both knelt in prayer and then the speaker himself came and talked with the mother, pointing her to Christ. Soon she was rejoicing in Him as her newfound Saviour. She accepted Him wholeheartedly.
Two weeks later this new convert and her husband and little girl were driving to Pontiac when another car shot out of a side road into their lane. In the terrific crash the mother and little daughter were both killed instantly. For them sudden death was sudden glory for the Lord Jesus had died for the little one as well. They were saved just in time.
The husband was badly injured, but in his despair that night he called for the evangelist who had spoken to his wife the night of her conversion. God’s way of salvation was explained to him, and he was ready for it. He, too, accepted the Lord Jesus as his own Saviour and found the Friend who lifts up the broken-hearted and comforts them in the hour of their deepest sorrow.
The Christian lady will ever thank the Lord that He laid it on her heart to talk with that stranger that Sunday in the gospel meeting.
ML-02/18/1979