It says that,” he answered, “but does that mean we must have the Holy Ghost before we can claim to be saved?”. Thanks,” he said, “from now on I’ll experience it right in my heart, and I’ll present it correctly from the theological standpoint.” I felt encouraged about the young preacher. In <432020>John 20:20-22 I read that Jesus appeared to His disciples before Pentecost, bringing them a message of peace, and at the same time giving them a commission, and then, ‘He breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost’.”.
But no one can get saved if he is not drawn toward the altar, can he?” he asked. Don’t laugh,” said he, “I’ve got another barrow full at home, which I shall get at once.” He made full restitution and became happy through doing so. I often think of the young man in the southern prison paying the price of his wrongdoing.
Say, Brother Strang,” he exclaimed excitedly, “there is a young man here and he wants to see you. I don’t see how I can do it,” he confessed, as sorrowfully he arose and made his way back to where he had been sitting.
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Joyful indeed because God had enabled me to be instrumental in snatching one more brand from the burning; sorrowful because a young man, married less than three weeks, who thought he had love, life and happiness before him was going out into eternity. Before he went he told his folks that I was to be given his small bedside radio because I had helped him to find Jesus.
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God helped us to meet her situation but, oh, in what a great way He met it.
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Her body was broken and her mind twisted, and her poor little soul was shriveled.
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I slipped a coin into his hand, and he started in the direction of the freight yard. The pity of it is that there are multiplied thousands like him—wanderers on the face of the earth, with no one to befriend them.
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The church in the little town of which I write has been a real asset to it. It is hard for me to see how the people there got along without it as long as they did.
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Shortly afterward he became the Sunday school superintendent, and proved to be one of the finest in the movement. It happened because a conscientious layman got a burden for an outlying section of a large city, and because God marvelously directed us to the home of a backslidden young man who opened his door for a Sunday school. There must be many more communities with similar situations awaiting the workers of the church.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 32
Let us not get so busy with the needs of an organization that we will fail to meet the need of an individual.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 33
I knew I told him that I believed Jesus had lived nineteen hundred years ago, but I had not told him that His Spirit was living in my heart now. I had looked upon him as a Jewish rabbi, and had overlooked the fact that he was an individual just like. I had at least twenty hours’ conversation with him and in that time I had failed to meet his life situation.
I am sure there are people all about us who are just as needy as the rabbi.
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Perhaps a seeker is just a seeker and nothing else to you, but to me each one is a soul in need; an individual who needs individual instruction and prayer.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 35
If you intend ever to be saved, “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.” Do not wait until disease and death approach. In the name of one boy who put it off too long, let me exhort you to seek God at once.
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I trust I did my best for him, but I am bothered by the thought that I did not press the claims of salvation more at that first meeting. I shall try to do better by the next poor fellow, but I certainly failed to meet that poor man’s life situation.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 37
I spoke to the living in no uncertain tones on the brevity of life and the certainty of eternity. Next month you may be in the position of the unfortunate man whom I tried to help. Just remember that a day comes to the unrepentant when it is too late to help.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 38
I needed the stimulation of faith that came both through God’s wonderful leading in getting the school started, and God’s wonderful blessing after it was organized.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 39
It is no sign of His displeasure with us if He does not answer our prayers for healing at once. The woman I am writing about proved to be the sister of a very influential funeral director in our city. Because we took an interest in her he became interested in our church and he became a very good friend of it.
We become impatient at times and want things done in our way and at once. But it must be as a dear old brother in our church often says, “God has all eternity to work out His eternal purposes.”.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 40
Between us we succeeded in getting them to look up from the darkness occasioned by the tragedy and to trust God. It left lines in their faces that will never be erased in this world, but it drew them nearer to God and to some of His children, than they would have ever been otherwise.
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Oh, Brother Strang!” exclaimed the lady of the house, “Bill is all better and has gone to work. I do not know why God does not answer all our prayers for healing, but I do know that he heard prayer for Bill. I do not put it before regeneration and entire sanctification, but I do know God is able.
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The grace of God can be given to us in such measure that the sickness and death of our loved ones can be endured. Even personal sickness and with our own death staring us in the face, we need not fear. But when the love and grace of Jesus become operative in our lives we can say, “I will not fear what men may do to me, and we may also cry out, “O death, where is thy sting?”.
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I want you to kneel down and thank God for sparing your life and giving you a chance to get ready to live and serve Him,” I answered. One after another wanted to talk to me, and in each case they were willing and anxious to discuss salvation. I really believe I did more good on that train than I had done in the four-day convention from which I was returning.
Thank God for the privilege of witnessing for Him, and for an opportunity to help meet life situations.
LIFE SITUATION NO. 45
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