I’m going to tell you about a little girl in South Africa, who loved the Lord Jesus. She heard about Him through some dear servants of the Lord, who had gone to Africa to tell the natives there about Him.
Not long after this little girl became very ill, and one of the teachers called on her. The first thing she said to him was:
“I want to go home.”
“You are at home, my dear; this is your home,” the teacher replied. Still she said,
“I want to go home. I want to go. home.”
“What home is it you want to go to?” her teacher then asked.
“O, the Home where Jesus is,” she answered.
Her pains then became very great. Her poor mother, and those who stood by her, shed many tears. For some minutes she could not utter a word, but as soon as her pain stayed a little, she said, repeating the words three times, as these Africans always do when they wish to speak very strongly.
“Jesus receiveth sinners, sinners, sinners! Joy! Joy! Joy!” That dear little girl knew Jesus as “the way”, and her heart overflowed with joy at the thought that He “receiveth sinners”, and casts out none who come to Him, and that soon she would see Him.
Thus peaceably did this little African go Home, to be forever with the Lord. She was far wiser than many in this favored land, who tell us that they hope to go to heaven when they die, and yet forget, or will not see that heaven is the Home reached only through the Lord Jesus.
And now we must ask our young readers if they too will believe, as the little girl did, that Jesus is “the Way, the Truth and the Life,” the only way to salvation.
ML 03/24/1940