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A Priest is Converted in France

26/3/2016

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On a lovely September evening the Maréchale was walking towards the sea, lost in admiration of the sunset. Fatigued with her Sunday morning’s work, she was seeking a little repose. She observed a priest slowly proceeding towards the hill on which stood a little Catholic church. His appearance struck her; he looked at once so distinguished and so sad. An inner voice said to her, “Speak to that priest.” “I cannot,” she said, “he would think me mad.” But the voice said the same words a second time, and then she instantly obeyed. Hurrying towards the priest, she said, “Good evening, mon père. I presume you are going to the church on the hill. May I accompany you, for I would speak with you on spiritual subjects?”
Uncovering his head, and bowing with great respect, he answered, “Certainly, madame.” They walked on for a little in silence. Then she said, “What must I do to be saved, mon père?”
“Keep the ten commandments,” he answered at once.

“But the rich young man who came to Jesus could say with his hand on his heart that he had kept them all, and yet had no assurance of salvation. He was in great trouble. He said, ‘What must I do to be saved?’”

“Oh, then you must take the holy Eucharist very often.”

“But those who take it are they saved from sinning? Are they not the victims of the power of evil, the same as others?”

“Oh! Yes, madame, but then there is the Confessional.”

“But does not the same thing apply to the Confessional,
mon père? You must know that there are tens of thousands in France who confess, but fall again the next day. They have not found rest. Is not Christ ready to save us if we are ready to be saved?”

“Alas! Madame, we shall sin always, always, to the very end of our lives.”

“But, my father, were not St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine of Siena, and many others, delivered from the slavery of sin and self? They attained to something definite—to holiness.”

He turned with vehemence and said, raising his voice, “Ah! Madame, but those were extraordinary lives. Those people were saints.”


“No, my father, they were men and women like you and me. What God did for St. Augustine and St. Catherine of Siena, can He not do it for me if I am ready to fulfil the conditions which He lays down? What does religion do, what is it worth, if it cannot deliver us from sin?” He did not answer. He was silently thinking.

She went on, “Is Christ a Saviour, yes or no?”

“Oh, yes, yes, He is!”

“Has He saved you, mon père?” They stood still for a moment and he turned his face away, with a look of poignant sadness. Then followed a confession—one of the deepest, most heartfelt cries she had ever listened to—ending with the words, “Alas, alas! All the days of my life I sin, and I expect to sin to my latest breath.”

The Maréchale  was profoundly moved, and felt that she stood upon holy ground. At last she spoke, “Then Calvary is the greatest fiasco the world has ever seen.”

Stretching out his hand, he said, “Oh, madame, do not say that; it is blasphemy.”

“But, my father, we are in the presence of facts, not fancies. You have left what men prize most. You have lived up to your light. And what do I find? Torment instead of rest, conflict instead of assurance, bondage instead of deliverance. Surely my father, Jesus did not come to increase our burdens, but to relieve them. You remember His word, ‘Come unto me and I will give you rest.’ He said, ‘My yoke is easy and my burden is light.’ Are these theories to be preached in pulpits, or are they realities?” By this time they stood on the summit of the hill, and she asked, “You are going to preach tonight?”

“Yes.”

“Would you like that we should go down the hill together and resume our conversation?”

“It would be a great pleasure, madame.”

He preached one of the best sermons she had ever heard, partly inspired, she could not help thinking by their intimate talk.

As the congregation moved out, she stepped into a Confessional box to wait for him. She saw him turning this way and that with a look of disappointment, and stepping out, said to him, “I am here, mon père.”

They began to descend the hill together. “I greatly enjoyed your sermon. But how can you show others the way of deliverance if you have not found it yourself? How can you unbind if you are not unbound? How can you heal if you are not healed? How, my father? Do you not see that all this is only from the head, not from life, the heart?”

“It is true! But I try, oh my God, I try!”

“But it does not come in that way—by our struggles.”

“Then how?” he exclaimed in a tone of despair.

“Does He not say, ‘Abide in me, and ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you’? Does not St. Paul testify, ‘I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.’ How many have given praise to Him who is ‘able to save to the uttermost’ and ‘able to present us faultless’! Put Him to the proof. If anyone has the right to salvation, surely you have.”

They paused under a tree in the stillness of evening, and, while he stood with bowed head, she knelt beside him and prayed.

—Excerpt from The Maréchale by J. Strahan
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EVANGELISM TESTIMONY

19/3/2016

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One Winter’s Night in Paris 

One winter’s night in Paris in the 1880s, Catherine (Katie) Booth-Clibborn (18 September 1858 – 9 May 1955) and her two young co-workers, Blanche Young and Kate Patrick (an Irish lass), went out with shawls on their heads, and made their way to one of the boulevard cafés. Katie passed the door, and passed it again. She turned to her two friends and said, “You have never known [me] till now; you see what a coward [I am]”. “No, no, no!” protested both her companions.

 
THIS said by the very same young woman who was now a woman of great renown in the press and to the public, because she had been freed from prison by the strength of the defence which she herself presented to the judge. Her time in prison was in Switzerland and the charge against her was for preaching the Gospel in a public gathering. She had endured a testing time separated from friends and family, but had endured and had a great victory indeed. Yet now, this brave and battle scarred heroine was admitting to her fear.

At last she put her hand to the door of the café, pushed it open, and went in. A man in a white apron was selling drink. Going up to him she said, “May I sing something?” The man stared open-mouthed. Trembling from head to foot, she repeated, “I should like to sing something.” “Very well!” replied the man, and she began:

“Le ciel est ma belle patrie,( Heaven is my beautiful homeland)
Les Anges y font leur sejour; (The Angels will make their stay)
Le soldat qui lutte et qui prie. (The soldier who struggle and prays)
Y sera bientot a son tour (will soon be there)”

While Katie sang, Blanche chimed in with her guitar and her second voice. As they proceeded, the smoking, drinking, and card-playing ceased, and every face was turned towards them. They sang on. When they had finished the hymn, Katie thanked her audience adding that they could hear her again at Rue Auber Hall; and that she knew a Friend of whom she wished to tell them. As she and her comrades turned to walk out, the man in the white apron bowed as if they had done him a service. “May I come another time?” she asked, to which he replied, “Certainly, Mademoiselle!”

That night they visited 16 cafés and when she got home she felt as if she had never been happier in her life; never nearer to Jesus. She had tried in her own way to obey His command, “Let your light shine before men.”  From that time, thousands and thousands of cafés were visited and much good was thus done.

—Excerpt from The Marechale by Strahan
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The Tract That Sent the Gospel to China

5/3/2016

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The best thing I can do is enjoy the pleasures of this world, for there’s no hope for me beyond the grave.” Young James had been raised in a devout Christian home. Frequently he found himself deeply troubled about his soul and asked himself many times where he would go when he died. He had tried to make himself a Christian by doing the right things and associating with the right people—but he still failed. Again and again he “tried” to become a Christian, but failed so often that he concluded there was no use in him even “trying” anymore. He had listened to many sermons about Christ and salvation. “For some reason,” he concluded, “I cannot be saved.”

One day while looking through books in his father’s study he came across a small Gospel tract. Almost out of boredom he lifted it and began to read. Unknown to James, on that same afternoon, his mother was on her knees seventy miles away praying for his salvation. She had been staying with friends whom she was visiting when she suddenly came under a deep burden of prayer for James’ eternal soul. She excused herself from her friends, went to her bedroom, turned the key and locked the door, and fell upon her knees. She was determined that she would not leave that room until she got an answer from God. For many hours she continued wrestling in fervent prayer until suddenly she felt the terrible burden lift and she instantly received the assurance that he had been saved.

Back in the study James came to a phrase in the tract that puzzled him, “The finished work of Christ.” “What was finished?” he asked himself; “…a full and perfect atonement and satisfaction for sin was made, and the debt was paid,” he mentally replied to himself. “Then,” he thought, “If the work of atonement is finished, if the mighty debt of sin is paid, what is there left for me to do?” In that very moment for the first time he truly saw; he believed; he received. With great joy he was saved on the spot and received the forgiveness of sins. When his mother returned home he immediately told her the good news of his salvation but was more surprised when his mother shared her news of answered prayer.

The young man’s full name was James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905). Several years later he received the call of God to go as a missionary to China. As the years of missionary work passed by in this strange and dangerous eastern land the Lord used him to train, and then send, over 1000 other missionaries into every province of China. He became God’s apostle to reach multitudes of souls in that great land. All over the world in every generation since then Christians have been encouraged by his life and testimony to believe God in prayer and to share the wonderful Gospel of Jesus with others.

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