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by Dr. Walter L. Wilson
S oul w in n in g has often been com pared to fishing. Our Lord Jesus Himself referred to it in this manner. The first thing I have found that works is to cover over the hook with some kind of bait which would appeal to the fish. When Jesus met the woman at the well, He didn’t start talking to her about her soul. He said, “Will you give me to drink?” She knew what He was talking about. He used the thing that was right at hand. Then, after more conversation, He told her that He wanted to give her the living water of the Holy Spirit. The Bible tells us that she received it and became a liv ing woman missionary. She went into the city and said, “I’ve found a man who has told me all things that ever I was. Is not this the Christ?” One time I was trying to win a far mer for the Saviour. As we watched the various mother hens and their baby chicks I asked him, “How can you tell which are which; who belongs to who?” He had some commeal which he put in front of one Plymouth Rock hen. She hurriedly called her babies and they came flying. Then he laid some down in front of a White Leghorn and she called hers, and my but they ran. He did this until all the families were together. I used that to show the man how, in a coming day, Christ will de scend and call all His children to Him. This was the basis of opening up an entire little Gospel message which was the means of seeing him saved. There is always something you can use to
make contact with others who need the Lord. One day Dr. Harry A. Ironside was riding along a road out in Wyoming. He saw a sheep run across the road, which seemed to have six legs. He asked the farmer how such a thing could be. The farmer explained, “You see, I had a sheep whose baby died and at the same time another one whose mother died. I told myself I had a perfect answer: a mother with no baby, and a baby with no mother. But when I put them together the mother wouldn’t have the baby. It didn’t smell like her own and she kicked it away. No matter how many times I brought it back, the mother rejected it. So I took the dead lamb’s skin and fastened it on the other lamb. When the mother smelled it, she accepted it as her baby and the two were happily brought to gether.” Dr. Ironside had a beautiful opportunity to point out to the farmer that God does that for us. We have no right to come to Him. So He takes the Lord Jesus to cover us with His own robes of righteousness. In this wav we put on Christ; we hide ourselves in Him. I led a scientist to Christ one time by pointing out some interesting things about the limb of a tree. A single limb may weigh two tons. It is covered with branches and yet it doesn’t fall down. It has the life of the tree in it. It goes in about half way to the heart of the trunk supporting it. God makes a mir acle of it for nobody knows how it is
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