The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-11-16
LAUNDERING AND BLESSED
IN THE KINGS BUSINESS
BY the Rev. Louis Heb
Published in the Sunday School
Times

C00llsheo N the sunday Scho0s
y Times
He was six feet, and broad-shouldered
and the fire of twenty years was in his
eye. His skin was the brown of the
forth or fifth generation of the Dutch
colonist in Ceylon. He felt more near
of kin to the native Sinhalese than to
the English colonist. But the English
had brought cricket with them, and the
Burgher lads had taken so kindly to the
sport that for nearly decade their
CoIbs Cricket Club" had held the
Ceylon championship against even the
best IAN European" combination. And
because the Young Mems Christian
Association had cricket club, open to
all members, it brought my friend M
to US an associate" member; "for."
he said, "I'am a Baptist. but not a
good enough one to be enrolled as an
active member of the Young Mems
Christian Association" He played
cricket for all there was in it. and it
was not long before he was elected cap
tian of the team. But he also frequent
ed the Association meetings. "because
a member ought to take an interest in
all the departments.
At one meeting at which NJ was
present, spoke of the necessity of
Christian men doing personal work in
witnessing for Christ. In order to help
them fulfil their obligations in this re-
spect personal workers training class
was begun. and all interested invited to
join. Among the conditions for class
rpsmbers the following were announced:
M, each member to be present every
week unless prevented by sickness or
absencefrom the city; and. second, each
~ember to report at every session some
attempt to do personal work. The first
session of the class was to be held the
following Sunday and reports were ex-
pected.
remember how concerned | was IN
reference to that first session of the
class. How many would come in y lew
of the eXacting condition? Indeed,
would sufficient number attend even
to call it class? On one or two of the
more earnest yonug men | felt that |
could count. but on, whom else? As the
hour for class session drew on, four of
our active members appeared. We had
already begun when. to our surprise.
the door opened, and with his genial
smile in walked our friend NJ. He
was very attentive. but plainly not
quite at ease; he did not venture any
comments on the general lesson. When
the reports of attempts at individual
work were called for, NJ was rest
less. 1t came his turn to report, and
he was clearly embarrassed. Finally. he
beg~r: 81 wouldn't be here, only
promised God at that meeting that
would come. Guess am not cut out for
a Christian worker, am too ignorant
Now, l really tried to do personal work
BID veil, you know work at thee
off, One of the clerks is Bood1hist,
and I thought would begin with him
l asked him why he wasn't Christian.
He said he was too intelligent to be
anything but Booddist. started to
argue with him. In few minutes he
had m. the laughing stock of the whole
Office, and had nothing more to say.
was beat. Guess I did more harm than
good. l wouldn't have been here only
for my promise.
Justa brief prayer for blessing and
guidance, and we opened our Bibles to
the Gospel by John, chapter 1:l9-27,
pointing out that it is the Christians
business to ''bear witness" as did
John the Baptist, and to decline to arg
ue even so prolific theme as the or
dance of baptism, but insistently point
tn 1.-The Lamb of God. who taketh away
the sin of the world" From the exper-
ience of the man who was born blind
and received his sight. in John 9, we
learned that it does no harm to admit
ignorance of so cardinal doctrine as
the sinlessness of Jesus (see John 9:25)
if only we be loyal in declaring Jesus
the Saviour of the world.
At the next class session M told
a. that his Booddhist friend jeered at
him for his ignorance; but, said he, Il
won't argue with him anyway. l just
told him wasn't much of Christian
myself, but l knew Jesus was the only
Saviour" Session after session and
the reports came in.--one day exalted
and another day cast down. After each