up. After a while he turned to me and said, “ Say, where are you going?” “ I’m going to Cambridge, about a hundred miles away.” “ Whom are you going to see there?” “ I’m going to see a man by the name of Sherman,” I replied. “ Say, I’m going to see the very same man.” And he left me right at the door. Looking out the front window of the YMCA, in Colorado Springs, at a raging blizzard, I knew that I could not get out and hitchhike. Then I heard a man be hind the desk say to a young girl who was typing, ‘How would you like a ride to Denver?” I looked around, and there was a man walking away from the desk with a suit case in his hand. I approached him, in troduced myself, and asked, “Are you going to Denver?” “Yes, I am.” “ Do you have a car?” “No, but I have a Greyhound bus.” And so I rode in a Greyhound bus to Denver. The ride was free, and I had the whole bus to myself. On my way to Alaska last summer, I was up in a little town called White Horse, in the Yukon. I preached four times that day, and in the evening on a radio broadcast. The next morning I was out on the highway. A Canadian soldier came up to me and said, “ Say, are you the preacher I heard on the radio last night?” “ I think so.” “Well, we certainly enjoyed that broadcast. All the soldiers listened to it.” After we talked for a while, he said, “ If you get in touch with Major Cow ard, he can arrange a ride for you to the border. Here he comes now!” (Continued on Page 22) The early morn with Jesus, His happy, welcome guest! The first glad thoughts for Jesus, The brightest, and the be'st! Alone, alone with Jesus— No other may intrude: The secret of Jehovah Is told in solitude. O r ere' a word or action Hath stained the snowy scroll,
fellows I have ever met. I talked to him about the Lord. Finally he turned to me and said, “You know, I was in this last war. I was in two major battles with the marines; but this morning I’m going through the worst battle of my life. For more than a year my wife has been unfaithful to me, and this morning I couldn’t stand it any longer. So I said to her, ‘Here, take everything I have. I don’t want a thing. I’m going to get in that car and start riding.’ Then I picked you up.” “ The whole trouble is sin in your life, and in her life too. Before I leave you this morning, I want to give you several verses of Scripture that will be a help and a blessing to you.” I said no more, and we rode along for about ten miles. Then he turned to me. “ Say,” he said, “if I pull over to the side of the road, will you show me those verses?” In less than five minutes, I led the man to the Lord. Then he turned to me and said, “ This is the solution to all my troubles. I’m going to sit down and write my wife that I have become a Christian. Perhaps the Lord can save her, and this may be the means of bringing us back together.” Hundreds of people have unburdened their hearts to me as I have ridden with them. Many times I have been a bless ing to them, with the Lord’s help. In the last few years the Lord has taken me seventeen times across the country, and I have never been in an accident. It is wonderful to see how God opens up the way. God Stops the Chariots I was waiting for a ride near Akron, Ohio, and a fellow stopped to pick me
The Gospel of Grace for a Lawkeeper
I was picked up by a man who had charge of all the publication work on the West Coast for the Seventh Day Adventist Church. I said to this man, “ Do you know why God gave the law?” He looked at me with a rather puzzled expression. “Why,” he said, “ the third chapter of Romans tells us.” “ So that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God,” I said. “ Gsd pmt the law so high that every one of Adam’s race is guilty before God. Just plead guilty, ask for mercy, and God can do something for you.” “ The law is like a mirror,” I told him. “ The mirror shows me that my face is dirty, but it can never wash my face and make it clean. The law shows me that I am a sinner, but only the blood of Christ can cleanse me from my sin. Listen to these verses: ‘If righteousness come by the law, then Christ died for naught. What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.’ The -law makes demands, but grace bestows favors. Under the law, the sheep died for the shepherd; under grace, the Shepherd died for the sheep.” A Would-Be Suicide Saved I was leaving Bob Jones College, and a man who had a big job working for the state picked me up. There was something on that man’s mind, and from the things he said, I realized that he was contemplating suicide. As we rode along, I talked to him about the gospel. He had said, “ I’m going only forty miles,” so I knew that I would have less than an hour with him. When we reached this particular place, he ran into a filling station and asked the attendant where the town was. The attendant said, “You’ve come forty miles in the wrong direction. You should have gone south instead of north.” When we drove away from the gas sta tion, I pulled out my little New Testa ment and said, “ Let me show you how you can be on your way to heaven and never get lost.” I turned to seven or eight verses of Scripture, and in less than ten minutes, I led the man to the Lord.. After we had a word of prayer, he reached over, took my hand, and said, “Mister, you saved my life this morning. I’m so glad I got lost.” I have often thought of the words of Spurgeon to a certain young preacher: “ If God called you to be a preacher, don’t shrivel up into a millionaire. It’s the biggest job in the world.” Last year I was coming out of St. Louis, when a fine young man picked me up. He was one of the most likeable
Bring the new day to Jesus, And consecrate the whole. Then fear not for the record He surely will indite; Whatever may betide thee, It shall be, must be, right!
— Lucy A . Bennett
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