THIRTEEN years have rolled by since our little paper first appeared and many of our early readers have gone home to be with the Lord. Others have grown from little children to manhood and womanhood.
Such are the changes that take place so rapidly in this life and soon all who have read the first papers will be gone from this scene.
With these thoughts before us and the fact that we are beginning another volume, the editor would like to press upon each young heart the importance of being ready to leave this world, and to make good the moments as they fly by, in using them for the Lord.
I am sure no one who has read the pages of “Messages of Love” can help but know the way to be ready to leave this scene. It is only by having Christ as our own Saviour; believing He has died for our sins, and that He rose from the dead. As the following scripture gives it, “He was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.” Rom. 4:25. Then for those who are ready, the word is, “Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Cor. 15:58.
These past years have given us much encouragement to continue with the little service of sending out the paper, and trust if we are left here for another year, or whatever part of it, that much blessing may be the result.
We ask the prayers of all those who are the Lord’s, for wisdom and guidance as to what should be put into the papers, and His blessing to accompany each one.
ML 05/05/1912