And Judas Iscariot: Together with other evangelistic addressesChapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur)
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And Judas Iscariot: Together with other evangelistic addresses
Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur)
Evangelistic sermons; Presbyterian Church -- Sermons; Sermons, American
(1) Speak to them. The power of human speech is simply marvelous. A
Sunday school boy appeared in a Baptist Church to apply for membership
and when they asked him about his conversion he said, "My Sunday school
teacher took me for a walk one Sunday in Prospect Park and talked with
me about Jesus and I gave myself to him." One of the officers of my
church when an unsaved man was asked by his minister to attend special
services in the church and then was urged by his wife to go with her.
Both invitations were angrily declined. He at last agreed to escort
her to the church but not to enter in. The biting cold wind of the
night drove him into the church and he was just in time to hear the
minister's appeal to the unsaved. All were asked to lift their hands
who would know Christ and then he remembered that when he was a boy and
had been drowning in Lake George he lifted up his hand as high as he
could and his brother took hold of it and kept him from sinking.
Suddenly it came to him in the church that he was sinking in another
way, and instantly he raised his hand and Christ took hold of it. I do
not know of a more godly man among all my list of friends than he; and
he says to-day that the invitation given to him and refused with anger
led him to Christ.
(2) Write. The chief justice of the supreme court of a western state
was not a Christian until a few years ago. He was a genial, kindly
man, and naturally a great lawyer, but he had never confessed Christ as
his Savior, and apparently had little real interest in the church. One
day the pastor of the Presbyterian church determined that he would
write him a letter, and then decided that so great a man would not
receive his communication and destroyed it. But the pastor's wife had
more faith and urged him to write again. He did so, and sent the
second letter and forwarded with it Spurgeon's "All of Grace." He
received word almost instantly that the chief justice had been deeply
impressed, and that as a matter of fact he was waiting for years for
some one to speak to him. The letter moved him and the little book
gave him the instructions needed. To-day he is one of the brightest
Christians I know. His face is a benediction. He said to me one day
that it was a wonderful thing to be a Christian; that he never allowed
any one to meet him that he did not talk with him about his soul. Are
there not hundreds and thousands of other men waiting, as the chief
justice waited, for some one to speak or write?
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