You are Christ's
only witness in your place. If you do not testify there for him, there
is no other one who will do it. Miss Havergal tells of her experience
in the girls' school at Dusseldorf. She went there soon after she had
become a Christian and had confessed Christ. Her heart was very warm
with love for her Saviour and she was eager to speak for him. To her
amazement, however, she soon learned that among the hundred girls in
the school, she was the only Christian. Her first thought was one of
dismay--she could not confess Christ in that great company of worldly,
un-Christian companions. Her gentle, sensitive heart shrank from a
duty so hard. Her second thought, however, was that she could not
refrain from confessing Christ. She was the only one Christ had there
and she must be faithful. "This was very bracing," she writes. "I
felt I must try to walk worthy of my calling for Christ's sake. It
brought a new and strong desire to bear witness for my Master. It made
me more watchful and earnest than ever before, for I knew that any slip
in word or deed would bring discredit on my Master." She realized that
she had a mission in that school, that she was Christ's witness there,
his only witness, and that she dare not fail.
This same sense of responsibility rests upon every thoughtful Christian
who is called to be Christ's only witness in a place--in a home, in a
community, in a store, or school, or shop, or social circle.
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