The Unusual Telegraph Message

Ayoung man was once employed as a clerk in a telegraph office in a town in England. In some way or other God had led him to see that he was a sinner, and this caused him great distress of mind. Like a poor lamb in the mountains, he felt he had wandered from God’s fold and was in a lost state. He could not tell where to find the Shepherd, nor how to get to His fold, but Jesus, “the Good Shepherd,” took a singular way to bring him into His fold.

This young man went to the office one morning in great distress of mind due to the burden of his sins. He was lifting his heart in secret and saying, “God be merciful to me a sinner” when the click of the telegraph machine before him told that a message was coming in. He saw that it came from Windemere, up among the beautiful lakes of England. There was first the name and residence of a girl for whom the telegram was sent; then, these words from the Bible (John 1:29b, Ephesians 1:7):

Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away

the sin of the world. In whom we have redemption

through His blood, the forgiveness

of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

There followed the name of the man sending it from Windemere. This was a strange message to send by telegraph. The explanation of it was this: The telegram was sent to a servant girl living in that town who was in distress about her sins and trying to find Jesus. She had a brother who was a Christian. He was a servant in the family of a gentleman spending the summer at the lakes.

The poor girl had written to her brother telling him about the trouble she was in and asking him the great question, “What must I do to be saved?” Her brother had no time to write her just then, so he sent her this telegram. The poor girl was led to Jesus by means of these sweet words from her brother, and so was that young man in the telegraph office! This was a message from heaven to him. Those precious words—“the Lamb of God,” “taking away sin,” “redemption through His blood,” and “the riches of His grace”—were used to show him Jesus, and he found peace in Him. The Good Shepherd made use of the telegraph wire to bring one of His lost sheep back to Himself.

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