A Radiant Face
Story★★★Alexander Maclaren (1826-191 0), looking out over his congregation one Sunday, was shocked to see a well-known skeptic in the audience. As they chatted after the service, Maclaren persuaded the man to attend church for four more Sundays, for the sermons were on the main doctrines of the Christian faith.
On the fourth Sunday, the man told Maclaren he had decided to become a Christian. The preacher asked which message had brought the man to that decision. The former skeptic replied: Your sermons, sir, were helpful, but they were not what finally persuaded me to become a Christian.
A few weeks ago, as I was leaving church, I noticed an elderly lady with a radiant face. Because she was making her way with difficulty along the icy street, I offered to help her. As we walked along together, she looked up at me and said, “I wonder if you know my Savior, Jesus Christ? He is everything in the world to me.
I want you to love Him, too.” Those few words touched my heart, and when I got home, I knelt down and received the Savior.
The point
A skeptic is finally won to Christ not by a preacher's sermons but by the simple, personal witness of an elderly woman who spoke to him about her Savior on an icy street.