ONLY A CHILD OF FIVE

(Use in your personal or church newsletters) (365 stories a year)

Serialization of Neil’s Internationally Distributed Novel (Rust On My Soul) (Published by Bridge Press (1985) starts on his blog Wyrick’s Writings Tuesday April 13th and continues each Tuesday until finished. Thursday and Sunday will continue to cover a variety of subjects.

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This is a long ago story…

He was the founder of a flourishing Christian community in India, although he had never been out of England.

To the amazed listeners he said that when he was five years old he wanted to give a penny to the missionaries but strongly objected to putting it in a brown box.

He had no proof that it ever went abroad.

The local minister was a friend of the family and also the friend of an Indian missionary. So the minister, to please the child, sold him a copy of the New Testament for his penny and directed the boy how to post it to the missionary in India, having first written on the flyleaf an inscription giving the name of the boy.

The missionary gave it to a poor native who had walked miles through the jungle to procure a testament, but who couldn’t afford to buy one.

Nothing was heard of the incident for twenty years.

Then another missionary, preaching in a jungle village to people whom he thought had never previously heard the gospel message, noticed that his words were causing excited delight.

Pausing in his preaching to ask questions, the preacher found that the people knew a great deal about Christ and that many were serving him.

No preacher had ever been to the village before.

The little Christian community had been born through the love and life of the native who had been given the Testament…the Testament which was sold for a penny to a child of five.

“We are therefore Christ's ambassadors…” Corinthians 5:20

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May 27 2010 …DO YOU HAVE A PHD IN COMPLAINING?
May 23 2010…WHAT IS A FOOL?
May 9 2010 …WHAT IS MEEKNESS?
May 6 2010 …HOW HEAVY WAS THE LAST GRUDGE YOU HELD?
April 15 2010 …DO YOU BELIEVE IN DEVILS?

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