yes, He’s very much alive! I’ve been seasick for about five days. This morning I longed for an orange, but we don’t get them here in third- class. I wondered what I could do, so I sat here praying that the Lord would answer me. I must have fallen asleep, and when I awakened, sir, I found that my Father had sent not one but two oranges. That’s why I say my Father is very good to me.” I want to tell you that the bottom fell out of that man's thinking. He lost all of his arguments about God and prayer. Dr. Meyer said that this man came to be a real believer on the Lord Jesus Christ. When we pray, there must be a right relationship with God. This is set forth in those two words “Our Father.” This unique fellowship and communion is only brought about by the new birth. Unconverted people can’t address God as “Father” at all. The theory of the universal father hood of God and the brotherhood of man is totally wrong. Only when you by faith have received the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, can you address God as Father. Jesus said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” May this be true in your life today.
that scene, all that I could say was, “Thank the Lord. What a God we serve!” Yet, I’m reminded that in His greatness of creation, never a tiny sparrow does fall to the ground without His notice. It’s sad to realize that when human beings become great, they tend to loose interest in common people. We can be thankful that it’s not so with our Lord. Many years ago, when I was a stu dent at the Moody Bible Institute, I had the privilege of hearing that great man of God, Rev. F. B. Meyer. He illustrated this subject of prayer with an incident which occurred while he was crossing the Atlantic Ocean to minister here in the United States. The captain asked him to preach on Sunday morning in the dining room where all of the first- class passengers had gathered. In the audience was a well-known agnostic who ridiculed to his friends Dr. Meyer’s address on prayer. That aft ernoon Dr. Meyer had the privilege of speaking to the passengers who couldn’t travel first-class. The unbe liever heard about it and thought he’d listen again. Walking through the first-class dining room, he saw a bowl of fruit on the table and helped himself to a couple of oranges. On deck, heading for the service, the ag nostic noticed an elderly woman with silvery hair and a pale face, reclin ing in a deck chair. Her hands were opened on her lap and her eyes were closed in sleep. Thinking he would fool her, he pulled out the oranges and placed them in her hands very carefully. Then he quickly went on his way. After the meeting, he passed the elderly woman again. Now she was awake, munching one of the oranges. The agnostic smiled, “You seem to be enjoying your oranges,” he said. She responded joyfully, “Oh, yes, my Father is very good to me.” “Your father?” the infidel qu e s tion ed , “Your father can’t be living.” Then came the beautiful testimony, “Oh, 10
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