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Words of Life
No 14, 2017, Netherlands
Ephesians 2:13
While reading recently in a book written in 1884 the following article appeared, which should be an inspiration to us all to show how the above text can be fulfilled by the Lord and inspire us all to support mission work at all times.
The Article reads –
The greatest of modern hymns had its spiritual birthplace in a barn! About the year 1756, a bright lad of sixteen, the son of Major Toplady, was taken by his widowed mother to visit some relatives in Ireland. During this visit at the hamlet of Codymain, an earnest layman was holding Evangelistic services in a barn, for the benefit of the surrounding peasantry. The young lad, Augustus Montague Toplady, was attracted to the place by curiosity and listened from the hay loft.
The homespun preacher’s text that day was, “Ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.” Up to that time the boy had been a stranger to the great salvation, but the plain discourse led him to Jesus. He was converted that day, and the sermon that converted him gave, in the end, to Christendom the matchless hymn, “Rock of Ages.”
Truly the faithful servant of God who scatters his seed upon the waters little knows whereunto it may grow, or after how many days he may find it. That plain Irish preacher was setting in tune that day a youthful heart which should yet yield the marching song to millions on their way to glory.