ONE of our dear little friends has lately gone to be with the Lord.
Dorothy M. was the younger of two dear little girls, whose parents say they are saved, but as Scripture says, “By their fruits ye shall know them,” and we see no signs of their trying to live for the Lord, and they seldom attend any service where they would learn more of Him, we fear they are not, but He who reads the heart, knows who are His.
But they have been willing for their little girls ‘to go to a Sunday-school close by their home, since they were, little tots, where they learned of the Saviour’s love in giving Himself for them. They truly learned to love Him and it was their delight to speak of His coming to take them to be forever with Himself:
They were very attentive in Sunday school and always knew their verse.
One Lord’s day they were missed from the school, and as, occasionally, on fine days, the parents would take them to visit relatives, although the girls said they would rather go to Sunday-school, we did not think anything had happened to either of them, though we did miss their bright faces whenever they were absent.
But the next Lord’s day in passing the house, we saw white crepe on their door, and went and rang the bell to inquire the cause.
We were met at the door by dear little H. who said, while her eyes were streaming with tears, “O, Mrs. A. Dorothy is with the Lord.”
A few days before, she had taken Diphtheria but, was thought to be improving, when she suddenly took a relapse and in a few hours was absent from the body and present with the Lord.
While she was lying in bed, she had her Messages of Love Hymn Book and would sing over and over again the hymns she had learned at Sunday school which she loved so well.
What a blessed exchange for her, to be with her Lord; and she has gone on only a little while before those of us who know Jesus as our Saviour, for He is soon coming to gather us all together around Himself.
Messages of God’s Love 5/21/1905