More About Personal Work


Some few years ago, when I started doing personal work, I was employed as a salesman for a company whose policy it was to distribute pamphlets or sale sheets advertising their merchandise and listing the prices of the different articles. There was space left on these pamphlets for the salesman's name and address, also telephone number. When I wrote my name and address, I also wrote somewhere on the sale sheet "Read John 3:16." Many hundreds of these I have distributed to different homes.

One day a lady to whom I was making a sale called my attention to this Bible verse. She asked if it was my telephone number. I then had the pleasure of explaining this scripture and making it plain to her just what it meant—how that Jesus came to this sinful world and died on the cross that she might be saved.

Personal evangelism is something that most every Christian that is truly concerned about winning soul can do. there are very few, if any, but what can go to their friends or even strangers and ask them if they are saved, and explain the plan of salvation. Every man, woman boy or girl that knows they belong to God, can take a few tracts and pass them out as they go shopping, or to their fellow workmen in the shop, or to their playmates at school—or when we make purchases we can always give a tract to the clerks—then, of course, there are many, many other ways. And one never knows the great amount of good these silent messages will do.

This week it was necessary to take Frances back to the hospital for an examination. While in the waiting room she gave everyone there a tract. I watched closely those who had been given these tracts. After reading, some would carefully fold them and put them in their pockets. Others would read them and lay them on the table which was in the room, or on the seats, and when others would come in, they would pick them up and read them, and so on—an unbroken chain of silent evangelism. Can one find a better place to spread the gospel of our loving Savior that in a hospital?

Sometimes, however, we may meet some unpleasant people along the way. I recall just now a home visited while doing personal work. I went down through a beautiful lawn and upon the porch, where I attracted the attention of the man of the house, who came to the door. I talked to him about his soul's salvation, to which he was very indifferent. I then gave him a tract which he immediately handed back to me, and went into the house. After being so rudely dismissed, I turned to leave, and in walking off of the porch, I decided to leave the tract lying there, as I felt sure some one would find it and perhaps read it. The man, who was watching from the window, came again to the porch and told me in no uncertain terms just how he regarded the work I was doing. He then picked up the tract and wadded it into a ball and threw it in my direction and advised me how to get to the highway. I returned and picked up the refused tract and took it away with me.

Some may say "I certainly wouldn't want to be treated in this manner," but God, praise His blessed name forever, gives us grace and love enough for lost souls to carry on under all conditions. Then, too, we soon forget these little rough spots along the way when we read of the many people who find their Lord and Savior by reading a tract.

Just recently we received a card from a happy mother who had gotten a tract that had been distributed by the workers of the Blue Ridge Mountain Bible Mission. She was praising god and told us of her children who had been saved and were anxious to do something for our blessed Savior. She also asked us to send her some tracts. In a few days there was a small package of good gospel tracts which Frances had selected and wrapped on its way to this mother. May God use them all to His honor and glory.

A young man whom I met when I first came here told me how he was converted. He said he was attending a revival meeting. A lady worker was walking down the aisle of the little church trying to get to those who seemed under conviction to go to the altar. She came to this young man, and laying her hand on his shoulders, she called him by his first name and said "Why don't you go?" He told me that without her saying another word, he immediately went to the altar and was definitely saved. This man is not a great preacher as the world sees it, but God is using him here in the mountains in a wonderful way to win souls.

We could name person after person who has been won t the Lord through personal contact. People in all walks of life, from the lowest to the very highest; men of great importance—even the peer of all evangelists, Dwight L. Moody, was won to God by a personal worker.

But, looking back on the years to all of these people, both great and small, the most important ones are those that are yet to be saved, those that today are standing on the brink of a Devil's hell, waiting for you—watching for you. Please be much in prayer for our mountain people, and that we will be used to win them to God.


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