home, she found that the marvelous words she had been reading kept flash ing through her mind. The Holy Spirit was performing His own work of conviction. “Ye must be bom again . . .” How strange these words seemed! What did they mean? Like Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night, she wondered how anybody could be “ bom again.” “ For God so loved the world . . .” and “ Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” were precious portions which passed again and again through her mind. “The sin of the world”—ah, could “ the world” include her? Yes, she knew that she was a sinner, but could this wonderful One take away her sin? How could she get Him to do it—this was the question that now confronted her. “ He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life,” was the answer that the little red book gave. Suddenly, she knew that she wanted this “ everlast ing life,” wanted it more than any thing else in the whole world. But how did one “ believe” ? And then she remembered Jimmie and his polite invitation to the mis sion. “ I’ll go,” she said to herself, “ and see what it’s all about.” The opening night of the mission found Jimmie seated with the other children on a front seat. Soon his eyes grew wide with astonishment when he saw a certain woman enter and take a seat also near the front, for she was none other than the one who had so unkindly received his invitation of the day before. But he was even more amazed when later, at the close of the meeting, he saw this same lady, in response to the pastor’s invitation, go forward for prayer. And if Jimmie had not been so tired and sleepy at the close of the service, he would have seen a yet more won derful sight—the woman arising from her knees and walking out, a “ new creature” in Christ Jesus. The expres sion on her face was changed; joy and happiness replaced the hardness and callousness of the day before. She had turned her eyes toward Calvary and had seen the Lord Jesus there, bearing her sins. Walking home, unmindful of any one else except Him, her new-found Saviour, she sang softly again and again in her heart, “ One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.” And the angels rejoiced around God’s throne—a soul had been bom again, and the heavenly record showed that a little boy named Jim mie had won that soul for Him! END |
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