It seems she was going 45 in a 35 mile zone. She was given a ticket. She knew she was guilty and ac cepted it. Before the patrolman left, however, she said kindly, "Now you have given me a tick et, let me give you a tract." She reached in her purse and found one titled "Thank you for your ex cellent service." It may not have been too appropriate but the po liceman took it home with him. The Spirit of God got hold of his heart and as he later told my sister he opened his life by faith to ac cept Christ. How many are there, whom you meet each day, who need God's good news? Are you willing to share Christ with them? You and I will receive the Crown of Rejoicing if our hearts are filled with compassion for the lost. God is looking for men today who will be willing to have a heart that is broken over those heading for a Christless eternity. May God by His matchless grace use you to bring to a saving knowl edge of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. In this way you will some day be given the Crown of Rejoic ing. The Crown of Righteousness In II Tim. 4:8 we find Paul testi fying, "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at the day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." The Crown of Righteousness will be given on the basis of faithful testimony for Christ. Paul desired "to fight the good fight of faith." This was more than a spiritual battle. As he told the Galatian Christians he bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus. W. B. Page 29
made up of 51 percent salt and other minerals. Yet, there are not any fish or plant life in the Dead Sea. The shore line is not dotted with happy little villages. It is dead! A lot of Christians are like that. While the great River Jordan flows into the Dead Sea it stops there; it never flows out. Too many of us take in but never give out. They never tell other people what Cod has told them (I John 1:3). There is real joy in sharing the story of the Lord Jesus Christ with a lost and dying world. In 1952 I had the joy of going to twelve islands off the coast of China where the people had never heard of the name of the Lord Je sus. Eight of those islands had nev er seen a white man until I came. My heart broke one day when a little Chinese boy came to a mem ber of our team and asked plain tively, “Did this Jesus you are preaching about come last year?" We had to tell him no, that He had come twenty centuries earlier. We had no real excuse for not coming earlier. We must take the message of life to others. Facing the task, how can we be assured of success? Our Lord has promised us the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). In these days when we use computers and all sorts of modern technology we must be careful that our soul winning ef forts do not become mechanical. Would to Cod that everything we attempt be with the energy of Cod's Holy Spirit. We must learn to give priority to witnessing. It should be placed at the top of the list. Some years ago, my sister was riding through a little city in Michigan. A patrol man pulled her over to the curb.
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