Maggie helps her brother-in-law Tom to understand just what the gospel is:
"Well, I am not going to stand out against such prayers. I'm as ignorant as a heathen, and somebody will have a hard time pulling me along. But if you and Horace will help me, I will begin."
"To begin what, dear Tom?"
"To be good."
"But you can't be good, and we can't help you to be. All you've got to do you can do now, sitting on that chair."
"And what is that?"
“Give yourself to Christ. Then ask Him to give you repentance and faith, and everything else you need.”
“But I thought it took a long time, and that people had to read and pray, and get wretched, and then at last they would feel their sins roll off their backs in a great bundle, and go on ever after relieved.”
“But that is not true. The first thing is to believe in Christ, and give yourself to Him, sins and all...”:
[From Aunt Jane's Hero by EP. Read this wonderful fictional account and see how God used Maggie's words to bring Tom to the point where he did indeed find himself in full possession of the "imperishable riches of Christ." ~ mr]
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