A Flag for Christ

A few years ago a converted Sikh lay dying at Amritsar, in the Punjaub, India. Before he passed triumphantly into his rest he expressed his desire to put up a flag for Christ, and left some money for the purpose. Today a flag waves in the gentle breeze above the houses of that city, bearing simply the words, “For Christ,” in bold letters on a scarlet ground. “That bright flag seemed to us,” says a missionary, “a monument of the grace and mercy of God, who could transform an idolator into a saint; and also a glad prophecy of the future when all nations shall own the sovereignty of our coming King. Below in the city the Hindoos bow before their idols; the Mohammedans perform their religious rites, not acknowledging the Saviour, and in ignorance of His love; and within a short distance the Golden Temple of the Sikhs shines and glitters in the sunlight. But still the flag floats calmly above it all, a reminder of the glorious fact that Christ shall reign and all His enemies be put beneath His feet.”