![]() ![]() I have told you before that this hymn was written by a woman in her twenties. Whatever their state, whatever their problem, let them bring it and tell it to the Friend of sinners. It is for this reason that we can tell people that they need not wait for anything, but can come to Him immediately. I repeat these incidents just to emphasize that what the sinner cannot do the Saviour is at hand to do for him. Yes, we dare to say to-day, to every one of the inhabitants of Shanghai or of any other city, that they can come to Him and be saved just as they are. ![]() O Lamb of God I come.' Those words have pointed to countless sinners the way of humble access to God through the blood of Christ. Charlotte Elliott went home and wrote her well-known hymn: 'Just as I am, without one plea. You don't need to do anything!' Light flashed into her heart, and with it peace and joy. Suddenly in the middle of his address he stopped and pointing his finger at her said: 'You Miss, sitting there at the back, you can be saved now. One day she wandered into a little chapel with no real expectation in her heart, for she was almost in despair. She went to hear this and that preacher and visited churches and chapels in her search for salvation, but all in vain. In England in the early 19th century there was a woman who had Christian parents and who for years had longed to be saved. ![]()
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