A Witness for Christ

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 25, 1897

A Witness for Christ

It is said of Frances Ridley Havergal, the poetess, that shortly after she joined the church she was sent to a boarding-school. There she soon learned that of all the one hundred girls she was the only church member. Her first feeling was of dread; she could not confess Christ in that company of gay, worldly girls. But her second thought was that she could not do otherwise than confess him. She was the only representative he had there. This thought gave her courage; had she not, in his providence, been placed there for the very purpose of confessing the name of Christ? If she failed him, he would have no witness in the company of all those precious young souls. The same principle is true in the case of every one of us. We are in the world, in our special community, to witness for Christ. If I am the only one, so much the greater need of faithful testimony in word and deed. “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14. “Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” Mark 8:38.