ANYTHING in my line, ma'am?"
The speaker was an old woman with a basket on her arm, who had crossed the road to ask me to buy.
"I have only taken two-pence since I left home this morning," she continued; "and that the Lord knows."
Surprised, I said, "You used the name of the Lord. What do you know of Him?" In a very decided tone of yoke she said,
"He's my Saviour."
"How do you know?"
Again came the decided answer,—
" 'The blood of Jesus Christ God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin.' God says it and bless His name for His mercy to me, I believe it, and I am saved."
"You are quite right," I replied, "it is the same precious blood that has cleansed away my sins, so you and I are fellow-believers. But how long have you known this?"
"I'm just six years old, ma'am—I shall soon be sixty-four, but I'm only a babe, for I've lived only six years. The fifty-eight years of my life before that, I spent in serving Satan. I was dead in my sins, but, bless God, He showed me His blessed Son shedding His blood for sinners, and 1 knew I was a sinner, and I heard the message, 'The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleansed' us from all sin.' Not a few sins, ma'am, but all. I believed it, and I know all my black history is wiped out, all covered by the blood of my precious Saviour, That's just six years ago, so you see I'm only a babe."
How happy it is that "faith cometh by hearing and hearing, by the Word of God" (Rum. 10:17). Reader, have you heard yet? Not merely with your outward ears, but with the ear of the heart. Have. you heard so as to receive the blessed message of salvation? Are you among those "who believe to the saving of the soul?" (Heb. 10:3939But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. (Hebrews 10:39)).
"Behold, NOW is the day of salvation" —just as you read these lines!
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