ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
ployer asked him to mail thirty or forty letters. When he took them, he thought nothing of it; but as he started to mail them, he began to wonder why he had been given these letters to mail. He had never been asked to do such a thing before. l His curiosity grew to such an extent that he opened one of the letters. After reading it, he opened several and found that ' every one was alike. To his amazement, he discovered that his employer had written to some of his Christian friends con- cerning him, and this is what he read: "I have a Jew working for me, and I want you to join me in prayer that he may be saved. I want to live the Christian life before him, that he may see the Lord Jesus in me and want Him as his Saviour too." The Jew read these words and said to himself, "They'll never get me like that." But he could not forget that thirty or forty people were praying for him. He thought of it by day and dreamed of it by night. Finally he began to read the New Testament and he accepted Christ as his personal Saviour. Love and prayer and God working in his heart won a never-dying soul. a hitherto indifferent Jew, to the Lord. This is what Paul m.eant when he said that his "heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel" was "that they might be saved." ISRAEL'S "ZEAL ... NOT ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE" 10:2, 3 "For I bear them record." Paul continues. "that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted them- selves unto the righteousness of God" (verses 2, 3). In other words, the children of Israel were sincere but mistaken. There are many people like that today-those who are zealous in religidn, but mistaken. Israel's sincerity did not a!ter the - \ .'Page 19~]
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