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SAVES TO THE UTTERMOST

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 27.

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“SAVES TO THE UTTERMOST.”

A city missionary was called from his bed at midnight to meet a half-clothed little girl, who said as she saw him:—
“Be you the man that preached last night, and said that Christ could save to the uttermost?”
“Yes.”
“Well, I was there, and I want you to come right down to our house and try to save my father.”
“What’s the matter with your father?”
“He’s a good father when he don’t drink, but he’s out of work now, and he drinks awfully. He’s most killed my mother; but if Jesus can save to the uttermost, he can save him.”
In a miserable underground room the drunken father was found brandishing a knife over his wife. The missionary began to talk kindly to him, and he became subdued. The little girl went up to the missionary, saying:—
“Don’t talk to father, it won’t do any good. Ask Jesus, who saves to the uttermost, to save my poor father.”
He knelt and prayed with unwonted power. The drunkard was melted to repentance. A new era dawned on the family.—The Colporter.