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"Yes, I know all about Him."
For a moment my heart stood still. I thought, "Has he been saved?" After talking to him
awhile, however, I realized that he was not. I gave him some other literature. He turned and threw
it at me.
I began to call on his wife in the home. She was a very gracious woman -- a Gentile. I
began to stop at his store again. I learned that he had been a boxer.
He had just moved to the city and was the head of an athletic club of some kind.
The Lord led me back again and again.
My pastor, who was interested in the Jews and loved them with great sincerity, began to
witness to Max and Violet. It was nearing Easter-time and I invited them and their daughter to go to
Easter sunrise services with us, have breakfast afterwards, and accompany us to church. They
consented.
After the sunrise service, while we were eating breakfast, I addressed the husband, "O
Max, wouldn't it be wonderful if on this day, the day we especially commemorate the resurrection,
you too could experience a spiritual resurrection from the dead?"
He answered gruffly that I was not to cram anything down his throat. I said no more.
After breakfast we went to church. His wife sat with me in the ladies' class; he went to the
men's class, and their daughter went into the intermediate department. In a few minutes I noticed
Max at the back of the church, pacing the floor, his hands behind him, evidently nervous and
agitated. (Later he told me that he was disturbed, thinking about Jesus.)
Soon he found the pastor and said, "Preacher, I need help." The pastor took him into his
study and explained more about Jesus. There in the office, Max confessed his need and received
Jesus as his Saviour. His own words later were, "I cried like a baby." The big, husky fellow was
not ashamed of his tears. Rejoicing, he left the office and got his wife out of the ladies' Bible class.
In a few minutes she too was saved. Then he got his daughter from the intermediate department,
talked to her, and she was saved. That morning all three went forward, declaring Jesus Christ as
their Saviour. That night they were baptized.
The next day when Max came home from work, Violet said to him, "There are some things
-- I hope you don't mind. You know all those nice decks of cards that we've had and you've been so
proud of? I threw them in the fire today."
"Praise the Lord!" he exclaimed.
"And you know all that imported wine and liquor you've been storing and saving? Well, I
poured it down the drain."