A Word Fitly Spoken

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 26, 1864

A Word Fitly Spoken.

REV. DAVID NELSON, the author of that admirable work, "The Cause and Cure of Infidelity," narrates the following:

On one occasion, he went to the house of a young man of wealth, on an evening when the brilliant parlors were filled with sons and daughters of fashion. After the crowd had dispersed, as he sat alone with the young man, he began to talk with him about the interests of his soul. The man replied that he would gladly become a Christian, if he knew what to do. 'Suppose,' said Dr. Nelson, 'the Lord Jesus stood in this room, and you knew it was the Lord Jesus, and he should look kindly on you, and stretch out his hand toward you, and should say, 'Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' what would you do?'

'I would go to him, and fall down before him, and ask him to save me,' was the reply.

'But what if your gay companions were in the room, and they should point and laugh at you?'

'I should not care for that. I should go to the Lord Jesus.'

'Well, the Lord is really in this room, though you cannot see him, and he stretches out his hand to you, and says, 'Come unto me;' and you should believe what he says in his letter, the Bible, as much as though you heard the words.'

Soon after this conversation, he had the pleasure of meeting this young man at the table of the Lord.