A LITTLE girl who intended to be a Christian when she grew older, came home one day bringing a bouquet of beautiful fresh carnations for her sick mother. The nurse commented on their loveliness, and then said, "We will not take them to mother now; they are too beautiful. We will wait a few days until they have begun to fade and wither."
The young girl was surprised, almost indignant, and sought an explanation.
Said the nurse, "Is not this what you are doing to the loving Savior? Are you not keeping for yourself the beauty and freshness of your young life, and waiting to offer Him the faded blossom from which all the beauty and freshness have departed? "
The girl felt the force of the reproof, and yielded her fair young life to Jesus. Will you not do the same? He is calling to you now. "Behold now is the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation."
J. M.