I ONCE heard a story of a little boy who had a wicked father who used to steal. One day he took his little boy with him to steal some corn out of a man’s field. When they came to the place where the corn was, he said to his boy, “You watch and tell me when you see any person looking, and I will go in and fill my bag full of corn.” Now this little boy had gone to Sunday-school and had learned many things from the word of God. So after his father had gone over into the field and was taking the corn, he called out, “Papa, somebody is looking.” His father dropped the bag of corn and ran to where his little boy was, but could not see any person, and said, “You mustn’t call me when nobody is looking.” But his little boy said, “Papa, God is looking.” Perhaps the girls and boys who read this paper have looked at a picture on a wall, and have seen the eyes in the picture looking straight into yours. Every place you go in that room, those eyes will follow you. So it is, dear children, with the eyes of God. There is no place you can go where His eyes don’t follow you. There is nothing you do, that He does not see. You can go where papa and mamma cannot see you, and you can do what they may never know about, but God sees and knows all. He knows all the naughty things that children do and marks them down in His book. There is only one thing that can take all those marks out of His book and that is the precious blood of Jesus, and the way to have that precious blood applied, is by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour. May every girl and boy who reads this, accept Him as their Saviour NOW.
“Behold NOW is the accepted time, behold NOW is the day of salvation.”
E. B. H.
ML 06/04/1899