“Will the Lord Accept Me?”
You may be interested in the case of an old woman who had been led to the Lord by Miss Chickmay. We wondered she did not ask to be baptized, but she seemed to have some difficulty about it. We are careful not to press any one to be baptized, but we had no doubt that this woman was converted; and one day I went and sat down by her side, and I said, “Now, Han Ta-sao (that is, elder sister), what is the difficulty? You do love the Lord Jesus?” “You do not doubt that he has taken away your sins?” I said, “Where is the doubt?” Then the old woman said, tears running down her cheeks, “You know that Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel.’ I am a poor old woman, nearly seventy, and nearly blind. I cannot go into all the world and preach the gospel. I am willing to tell my husband and son and his wife, when he marries; I am willing to tell my neighbors, and I could, perhaps, go to one or two villages; but I cannot go into all the world. Tell me if the Lord will accept this of a poor old woman of my age?” I felt as if I could take the old woman in my arms, and I said, “That is all the Lord Jesus wants—he wants each of us to do our best.” Then she looked at me with her eyes full of earnestness, and said, “Tell me, can I be a disciple, and be baptized without going into foreign countries?” I told her she could, and she replied, “Then I am ready to be baptized whenever you like.”—Richmond Christian Advocate.