“Confess Me Before Men”

A few of us were training to a Gospel meeting, and after passing tracts to all in our compartment, one of our company began to press the importance of confessing Christ.

All the travellers became interested, except a soldier, who sat opposite the writer, with his head down, looking troubled, as if he wished he was somewhere else.

Five weeks after, one of our fellow-labourers was at a prayer meeting: among others, a bright young soldier prayed and thanked God for His grace and goodness to unworthy sinners, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Our friend recognised him, and went up and asked if he were the soldier who had travelled with us in the train. “Yes, I am,” he replied; “I was then a miserable backslider, and my heart was well-nigh breaking to think that I was unfit to confess my Saviour in that railway compartment; but I went back to the barracks, and that very night got on my knees and told the Lord all about it. He put it all right for me, and now I am happy.”

 How encouraging to confess Christ before men; to “be instant in season and out of season.” (2 Timothy 4:2)

H.J.V.