AT the close of a gospel service, not long since, two Christians were in conversation together, when one of them, who had but lately found joy and peace in believing, related the story of her conversion. With look of intense earnestness she said, “I had never read God’s word, or bent my knee in prayer. I have been a very wicked woman; in fact, I have committed every sin but murder On New Year’s Day I went to a preaching, just to make fun and to laugh at what way going on. That passed away, and I thought of it no more, until a few days ago I was much troubled. I had often had the little word trust put to me, so I was determined to take my Testament, and see if I could find out what it meant. I searched, and became very unhappy.
“At last I went up to my room and knelt down. I felt I could not move, I cried and said, Oh! God help me! ‘I called my little girl of seven to come and pray for me, and in her simple, child-like faith, she came and knelt beside me, and said: O God! for Jesus Christ’s sake, save my mother, Amen.’ From that moment I could and can rejoice to know that my sins, though many, are all forgiven me through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Reader, do you know the burden of your sins? Let me point you to Him whose blood can cleanse them away. You, too, perhaps have heard that little word trust many times. May you know what it means in reality, and come to Christ trusting Him. He has said: “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)).
G.A.C.
“Blest Name the Rock on which I build,
My Shield, and Hiding-place;
My never-failing Treasury tilled,
With boundless stores of grace.”