This article is from Issue 8, Called to be Witnesses
By R. A. Torrey
We cannot all preach, we cannot all sing, we cannot all teach, but there is not one who cannot speak about the Saviour. Even the invalid shut up at home can do “One by One” work. I knew of a poor, outcast girl in New York City who was brought to Christ. She only lived two years after her conversion, but they were years of wonderful fruitfulness.
Her last months were spent upon a bed of sickness and pain, but as she lay on her sick-bed, she wrote to her old friends who were in their old life of sin, inviting them to Christ. Some of them were in prison and could not visit her, but those who were not she entreated to come and see her.
A friend in whose home she died, told me that there was one constant procession, morning and afternoon, up and down the stairway, of abandoned men and women who came to see their dying friend. She explained to them the Way of Life, and my friend told me that she personally knew of more than 100 men and women from the deepest depths of New York sin and shame who came to see Christ through that poor girl as she lay there dying.
Many of us who have had every advantage of a Christian home and training, education and Bible studies, have never led a soul to Christ as far as we knew in all our lives.
Taken from Life on the Altar Publication
Issue 8 Spring 2023
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