INVITE THEM | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 13.

INVITE THEM.

BISHOP MCCABE says: "I am sometimes startled at the ease with which a soul can be won. And I am often humiliated when I think of the many times and the many opportunities in my life which I have wasted and not used for the winning of souls to Christ. I want to illustrate the ease with which a soul can be won. Not very long ago, in a strange city, as the hackman got down off his box and opened the door to let me out, I dropped a quarter into his hand, and as I did so I grasped his hand and said to him, 'Good night; I hope to meet you again in glory.' I had often done that, and I thought nothing of it in this case. I went into the house,

met my host, and retired to my room for the night.

"About midnight my host knocked at my chamber door and said: 'Chaplain, that hackman has come back, and he says that he has got to see you to-night. I told him that he had better wait until morning, but he said, "No, sir; I must see him to-night, and I know that he will be willing to see me."' When the hackman came up, a broad-shouldered, rough-looking man with a great whip in his hand, he stood there in my presence with the tears rolling down his cheeks like rain. Said he: 'If I meet you in glory, I have got to turn around. I have come to ask you to pray with me.' What a privilege it was to pray with that man! what a privilege to point him to Jesus! and yet I never saw him before in all my life. There are 10,000 men in this country that have not had an invitation to come to God in all their lives."—Selected.