Christian Stories PresentsTouch a LifeVictory Out of Seeming Defeat Christian Stories "Victory Out of Seeming Defeat" is Published With Permission from the 21st Century Christianity Forums. ______________________________________________________________________________  One day an old minister in England walked into his churchyard and, sitting down on a tombstone, began to weep. He wept because his church officers had just notified him that he was getting old and that he ought to resign and let a younger man take his place. It Looked like His Christian Story and his life's work were over! As he sat there disconsolate, he saw a boy, with sunshine in his face and joy in his heart, coming down the street beyond the cemetery fence. The old preacher was fond of children, and he called this boy to him and had him sit down beside him on the tombstone. There he forgot his sorrow as he talked with the boy about the meaning of life and told him about Christ and his salvation. Presently the boy left him and went on his happy way down the street. The old preacher went back to his manse and to his sorrow. Not long afterward he was called to his eternal home. If it is permitted the redeemed in the life to come to behold what transpires on earth, then this is what that old preacher has seen: He has seen that boy with whom he talked become a lay preacher, a teacher, and a cobbler. In his schoolroom and cobbler shop he has fashioned a large leather globe; and scholars in his class and customers who came in for their shoes have seen the face of the teacher-cobbler suffused with emotion as he pointed to land after land on that globe and said, "And these are pagan!" After a few years he saw that boy to whom he had talked in the cemetery become the pioneer missionary to India, who translated the Scriptures into the dialects of the East. That boy was William G. Carey!  Never Under Estamate What Your Words and Witness Might Do! And How The Love of God Through You Could Change a Life... And Touch The World! ___________________________________________________________________________
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