Eddie came to our children’s meetings when he was four years old, and, at that early age, I believe the Lord opened his heart to the Gospel. He lived some distance from the town, and had often to tramp along the dark road all alone after the meeting, sometimes carrying a heavy basket with messages for his mother. But the brave little fellow never feared, nor even on the darkest night, did we ever miss him from the meeting.
His parents were careless and indifferent to the Gospel, but always listened to Eddie while he told them what he heard at the meetings, and his mother read very eagerly the magazines and prizes he brought home. I believe God used the dear boy’s testimony, simple as it was, backed up by his consistent life, to turn the parents’ hearts towards eternal things, and to make them wish to know Eddie’s Saviour.
It was a grand triumph for Eddie to get his father and mother to come to the “Annual Tea,” to which parents, as well as children, were welcome. His face shone as he led them into a seat in the hall that night.
But the best part of my story has yet to be told. Eddie’s father and mother became anxious about their salvation, and we had the joy of going out to their home, arid telling them more simply the way of life. Both are saved and happy in the Lord. Eddie is a bright Christian boy, a true witness for Christ, and much beloved by his parents. So well he may, for it was by his means that they were led to the Saviour.
How grand it is to be saved in life’s early day! What a joy to yourself, and what a blessing to your friends it would be, if you were really saved and witnessing for Jesus, as did brave Eddie.
“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead. thou shalt be saved.”
ML 04/21/1946