A young man who was president of the Christian Endeavor society in a big stone church uptown was invited by his employer to attend a meeting at Front and Burnside. When he came he planned to sit in the back of the auditorium and slip out before anyone spoke to him. But a Christian worker confronted him at the head of the stairs and asked: “Are you saved? Do you know you are right with God?” He did not know how to answer, so he cast his eyes downward, evaded the question, and hurried down the stairs. If he had been asked if he was a church member, a Sunday School teacher, or an active worker in the church he could have responded affirmatively.

For days, it seemed all he could hear were those words: “Are you saved? Do you really know that you are right with God?” He had wondered about that many a time, but did not know how to find the answer.

Later, he went back to the Apostolic Faith church, and this time he sat close to the front; and when the altar call was given, instead of being the first one down the stairs, he was among the first to kneel at the altar where he fell in a heap and cried out to God. He said, “I did not get down on one knee as I had done many times, but one both knees I prayed, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner.’ As I knelt there I began to realize that I had sins nothing but the Blood of Jesus could wash away. God saved my soul, and I knew I was saved. He broke the cigarette habit I was bound with and caused me to go back and straighten up the past life where I had wronged people. Today, I have a clean slate. My name is recorded in Heaven; and for over 47 years I have had real victory. My heart overflows with joy.”