LIFTING BURDENS OPENS DOORS
An Indian evangelist told me that he and his colleague started on an evangelistic tour through the country districts. They hired a Hindu coolie to carry their luggage. They overloaded him. They were feeling rather conscience-stricken, so they began to preach the Gospel to him. The coolie listened patiently for some time and then he suddenly stopped, threw down the load and said, “You pile such a load as that on me and then you preach such things to me!” The evangelist and his colleague knew the coolie was right, divided up the burden among them, and then as they walked along sharing common burdens they could share a gospel for the heavy laden. From Christ at the Round Table, by E. Stanley Jones (1928), p. 103
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