A Text from a Motor Cycle
How the commonest incidents, and those connected with modern prosaic things, as well as the kind Christ drew from the familiar life of His time, will furnish illustrations to the alert messenger of the gospel, is shown again by the following story from a worker who was traveling in Africa on a motor cycle: “On my return journey, I was able to speak to a company of Kafirs who gathered around me at a wayside hotel to observe how I was filling my gasoline tank—‘feeding my horse,’ as they put it. “An intelligent looking native remarked that the white man is very wonderful to make a horse of iron which can run without legs; and I answered, ‘Yes; but if man is wonderful, how much more wonderful is God, who made man, and all things.’ “For nearly half an hour, I spoke to them of the creative power of God, of His love for fallen humanity, and of the coming Saviour. The Spirit of the Lord was with us, and these souls seemed to drink in what I told them. “They were loath to let me go, and made me promise that the next time I passed that way, I would tell them more. I assured them that if they would pray to the great God, He would, to use their own expression, ‘open to them the way.’”