If an Atheist was a Christian

“C.T. Studd, the famous British athlete and founder of Worldwide Evangelization Crusade, was one who gave up all his achievements in this life for Christ’s sake. He was challenged to his commitment by an article written by an atheist. That article in part said: If I firmly believed, as millions say they do that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, then religion would mean to me everything. I would cast away earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as follies, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would by my first waking thought and my last image before sleep sank into my unconsciousness. I should labor in its cause alone. I would take thought for the morrow of eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences would never stay my hand, or seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its griefs, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon eternity alone, and on the immortal souls around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everylastingly miserable. I would go fourth to the world and preach to it in season and out of season, and my text would be: ‘WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAIN THE WORLD WORLD AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL’” (Quote taken from K.P. Yohannan’s book Revolution in World Missions).