Ingersolls Aunt Sarah

Ingersoll’s Aunt Sarah

Many a man or woman has borne eloquent witness to his Christian faith by a quiet , inconspicuous, consecrated life. Aunt Sarah was a relative of Robert Ingersoll(the famous sceptic). She was a devout Bible student and a beautiful Christian.

One day she received by mail a package that contained a copy of on of R.G. Ingersoll’s book, and attack on the Bible. On the flyleaf was written these words over Ingersoll’s signature: “If all Christians had lived like Aunt Sarah, perhaps this book would never have been written.” The indisputable fact of a consistent godly life was more disquieting to the great infidel’s unbelief than anything else.

Our great problem of trafficking in unlived truth is very costly. We try to communicate what we have not experienced.