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Some Rhyming Couplets Dedicated to the Lord’s Front-Line Soldiers Witnessing on the Streets

(Such as Phillip and Daniel at Southern Cross train station in Melbourne; Andrew on the High Street in Glasgow; Peter in Wimbledon; Stuart among the Muslims in Manchester; the man near St Giles in Edinburgh who approaches people with a survey which leads to a presentation of the Gospel; the man who does likewise near the old cathedral in Christchurch NZ; the man who offers a free walking tour of the historical sites on the Mound in Edinburgh as an alternative to the Ghost tour; those who witness to Muslims in Melbourne CBD and Melton; the man who hands out tracts on the High Street in Stratford upon Avon; the one who witnesses in the Market Place in Carlisle; the man who wanders through the Lanes in Carlisle handing out bangles with Bible verses on them;  the youngsters who raise a testimony in word and song outside Highbury and Islington tube station just across the road from Islington Green where George Whitefield felt honoured to be pelted with rotten fruit and dead cats; the dear old saint who greets visitors to St Mary-Le-Crypt Church in Gloucester and shows them the pulpit where George Whitefield preached his first sermon and reportedly drove 19 people mad; the man who preaches in ungrammatical English outside London’s Kings Cross station; the old minister who sits in St Mary Woolnoth Church in London where John Newton once ministered and plays Amazing Grace and other Newton hymns on Youtube over his phone and leads other visitors to Newton’s testimonial memorial beside the pulpit …

And so many more. THEY ALSO SERVE — as the King’s 1st Regiment.

So don’t denigrate them, don’t pass them by on the other side. Go up to them, pat them on the back, say: ‘God bless you, Brother, keep it up!’ And see if there isn’t some rocky little corner of the Vineyard where you can raise a testimony too!)

1. Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by,

That Jesus our Saviour would willingly die?

Yes, willingly die for you and for me

That so great a salvation by grace we may see.

2. Come one, come all — heed our dear Saviour’s call:

‘Look to Me and be saved from your sin and the Fall,

For I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life,

And I will uphold you through all of your strife.’

3. But far more than blessing in this life you’ll find

When seated with Jesus in Glory divine;

You’ll join with the saints and the angels above

Praising God in His glory and infinite love.

4. Oh ‘Come to the Saviour and make no delay

Here in His Word He has shown us the way;

Hear now His accents tenderly say:

“Come now, My children, come”.

— Bob Thomas