Rev. G. Campbell Morgan tells this story:
Some years ago a woman came to me at the close of the Sunday
morning service and said, “Oh, I would give anything to be in
this work actively and actually. I would give anything to have
some living part in the work that is going on here next week in
winning men and women to Christ, but I do not know what to do.”
I said, “My sister, are you prepared to give the Master the
five loaves and two fishes you possess?” She said, “I do not
know that I have five loaves and two fishes.” I said, “Have
you anything that you have used in any way specially?” “No,”
she did not think she had. “Well,” I said, “can you sing?” Her
reply was, “Yes, I sing at home, and I have sung before now in
an entertainment.” “Well, now,” I said, “let us put our hand on
that. Will you give the Lord your voice for the next ten days?”
Said she, “I will.”
I shall never forget that Sunday evening. I asked her to sing,
and she sang. She sang the gospel message with the voice she
had, feeling that it was a poor, worthless thing, and that night
there came out of the meeting into the inquiry room one man.
That man said to me afterward that it was the gospel that was
sung which reached his heart; and from that day to this--that
is now eleven or twelve years ago--that man has been one of
the mightiest workers for God in that city and country I have
ever known. How was it done? A woman gave the Master what she
had.--_The Church Advocate._
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