to make the trip from Kansas City to Chicago in comfort and quiet assurance o f getting there. I gave him a polite refusal. No more scalper’s tickets for me! The above experience presents quite a picture if one understands the meaning of “ scalper’s ticket.” Had the conductor been sure of his ground, he would have con fiscated my ticket and demanded that I pay the full fare of $35.00 to Kansas City. Had I been un able to do so, he would have ex ercised his authority and put me off the train at the next stop. In buying the ticket from Dorsey, I was “ scalping” the railroad company of $35.00. Hence the term. Many times in later years I contrasted that experience with my spiritual condition. I was un easy, having no assurance that I would ever reach heaven. I thought of that happy family, so confident of reaching their des tination and seeing their loved ones. How I longed for such as surance and happiness! Today countless persons think they are Christians because they attend church or have passed through some religious ceremony. They have never been bom again and are indeed depending on something no better than a “ scalper’s” ticket. They experi ence all the doubts and fears that accompany such a dependence. What a change takes place when a person receives the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour through believing what He said to Nicodemus on that historic night; “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Then and only then does he realize the blessed truth of II Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creation, old things are passed away, behold all things are be come new.” Then he will, like the writer, feel like shouting, “No more scalper’s tickets for me!”
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