A BRIGHT-EYED boy stood up, at the close of a meeting held for sailors in the port where his ship lay, and bore testimony to the saving power of the gospel in the following simple words, “I am fourteen years of age, and I have known Jesus as my Saviour four years. I found out then, that I was not too young, or too little to go to hell, and I afterward learned in the Book of God, that I was not too young to be saved, and go to heaven. Jesus came to save little sinners, as well as big sinners, so I came to Him, and believed on Hint, and He has saved me. Bless His Name, He is more to me than riches or lands; He is with me on the deep sea, and on the land. I seek to serve Him among my shipmates, and in my home. Who will have my Jesus as their Saviour? I can testify that there is no life so pleasant, as that of a follower of Christ.”
Beautiful and true. What do you say to that reader? Is not the boy right? Can you say with him, that Christ is yours, and that you find His ways to be pleasantness and peace? No doubt he had his trials on board ship, among a crew of godless sailors—and God does not promise to keep His saved ones out of such trials; He promises to give them grace to bear them—but the sailor lad had Christ, and in Him he conquered. Are you afraid of the sneers of companions? if you have Christ, with the hope of glory beaming in your heart, you will not care a straw for what they say.
ML-12/08/1935