"Please Make Me a Christian."
By Rev. Dr. Boaz
I WILL recollect, in the course of my labors, a poor Hindoo youth, who followed me about the garden of the school, asking of me to make him a Christian. I said: "It is impossible, my dear boy; if it is possible to do so at all, it is possible only through the Lord Jesus Christ to make you a Christian. Pray to him." How well I recollect the sweet voice and face of that boy when he soon after came to me and said: "The Lord Jesus Christ has taken his place in my heart." I asked, "How is that?" He replied: "I prayed, and said, 'O Lord Jesus Christ! if you please, make me a Christian!' And he was so kind that he came down from Heaven, and has lived in my heart ever since." How simple and how touching! "Lord Jesus Christ! if you please, make me a Christian!" Can you say that you have made a similar appeal in such a spirit as this poor Hindoo boy? And can you say, my young friends, that Jesus Christ has come down from Heaven to live in your hearts?—Rev. Dr. Boaz.