EDITH was the daughter of Welsh parents. Her mother was a devoted Christian, and as such sought to train her child for God.
Edith, who was never strong, was affectionate and amiable, and those who knew her best loved her most. She attended her Sunday school until within a week of her departure to be with Christ, which is far better.
The mother watched by her darling as she lay with a happy smile upon her face, gazing upwards.
“She can evidently see something more than we can,” said a friend who stood by the bedside. At length the dear child uttered one sentence, the last she ever spoke on earth, and they are words we would like to spread the wide world over:” Jesus paid it all!” And straightway she went to behold the King in His beauty, and the land that is very far off.
Edith was only a little girl of nine years of age, and in this world was of very small account, but she knew the blessed truth, that “Jesus paid it all.” The eyes of many dear children will fall upon this page. Do you know for yourselves the truth that dear Edith uttered? “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” and this “all” includes you! Are you aware that you have incurred a debt you can never repay, for you have nothing, and can do nothing to pay the holy God? You have sinned against God many times. Now God is just, and can in no wise clear the guilty. He has said, “The soul that sinneth it shall die.” But He sent His own dear Son to die instead of us. He bore our sins, He suffered on the cross, that we may not suffer eternally. He paid all the debt we owe to God, and of the work of our salvation, He said, “It is finished.”
God is just, and since His Son has borne our sins on the cross, who believe on His Name, He will never punish us. “Jesus paid it all,” and our debt is paid! God has forgiven us who trust in Jesus. Praise the Lord, “Jesus paid it all!”
RHODA.