"I'm Greatly Concerned About Your Soul."

by M. A. C.

Mr. R— then left, but returned again in a few days saying that he had prayed earnestly to God to awaken him to a sense of his danger, and he was now anxious to devote himself to his Saviour.

Minister. “Do you believe in Christ?”

Mr. R—. “With all my heart.”

Minister. “Are you willing to give up all to Him if He should require it?”

Mr. R—. “Yes, all.”

Minister. “How can you account for this great difference in your feelings in so abort a time?”

Mr. R—. “After I had left you the other day, I still kept pondering over those words, ‘I’m greatly concerned about your soul,’ but still did not feel very anxious myself. I was more struck with the idea of a comparative stranger being so deeply anxious about what concerned me so little. But I thought of what you had said, and I began to pray. Suddenly a strange fear came upon me; I felt I was in danger, and needed some one to rescue me. I continued almost agonizing in prayer, ‘Lord, save, or I perish;’ and as I prayed, He who stilled the tempest, also stilled the tumult within my heart and gave me peace. I felt Him to be near unto me, and even as Jacob did, I wrestled for a blessing. I sought my bible, and then the whole plan of salvation became clear unto me, and now I want to begin to serve my Maker with all my power.”

Time passed on, and each day that once sceptical man grew in grace, and in the knowledge of his Saviour; he became an earnest disciple, and went about telling to the world around what a dear Saviour he had found.

There we see an instance of how much good we may be the means of doing, if we will only try. Seven words were the means of arousing that man. The most lengthy and eloquent discourse will often fail, but a few words spoken in love and with earnest prayer for their success, may pierce the hardest heart.

Unconverted reader! I’m greatly concerned about your soul. How do you intend to answer the questions put to you at the last day? How will you dare to say, I knew the way, but I would not walk in it? Do you ever think of the future? do you remember that there must be an end to your life, and that you must live again either in happiness or misery? Oh! stop and think; ere you leap the fatal precipice, pray for mercy! and remember that you may live without Christ, but how will you die without Him?