At one time I was preaching the good
news of salvation through the finished work of Christ, when a man of middle age
stood up and gave witness of his salvation and his faith in the power of the
Gospel.
“I have long looked for the truth,”
he said, “as my fathers did before me, but I have never found it. I have been
far and near, but without having it. I have found no rest in Confucianism,
Buddhism or Taoism; but I do find rest in what I have heard here tonight. From
now on, I am a believer in Jesus.”
This man was a leading official of a
group of Buddhists in Ningpo, China. A short time after his confession of
faith, there was a meeting of the group for which he had at one time been
responsible. I went with him to that meeting. To the ones who once worshiped with
him, he told about the peace he had received in believing. Soon after this, one
of his friends was saved and baptised. Both are now in heaven. The first of
these two continued to preach the good news of great joy. A few nights after he
was saved, he asked how long this Gospel had been known in England. We told him
we had known it for hundreds of years.
“What!” said he, surprised. “Is it
possible that for hundreds of years, you have known about the good news and
have only now come to preach it to us? My father looked for the truth for more
than twenty years and died without having it. Oh, why did you not came sooner?”
Many people have died since that sad
question was asked. But how many might repeat the same question today? ...Millions...have
gone...without the hope of salvation. How long shall this continue and the
words of Jesus, (Go into all the world and preach the gospel...) "to every person," go without being obeyed?
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