One Sunday afternoon a group of six little boys started out to have a good time. They were a happy carefree lot, quite forgetting that it was the Lord’s day—the one day in the week that the Lord Jesus would have us use especially for Him.
The boys wandered on, until they came to a pond, three miles from home, where they soon found an old leaky punt. One boy suggested that they go out in it, and this was no sooner said than done. They found some poles with which to push it along, so all six boys climbed in and pushed out from the shore. It did leak badly, but they baled out the water as they went. But soon they realized that it was coming in faster than they could bale it out! What could they do?
The boys began to shout for help, and some of the little ones were too frightened to do anything but cry. Another boat was not far away but the people in it did not pay any attention to the cries for help. They were some distance from shore by this time, and though the water was not deep, the boat began to sink in the mud at the bottom of the pond.
So, children, if you do not know the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, you too are in danger—danger of being lost forever.
But do you realize it, and are you calling for help? There is only One who can save you and that is the Lord Jesus Christ, Do get down on your knees right now and call to Him to save you —He is willing and able to do so. He has said: “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Rom. 10:1313For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13).
At last two big boys came to the help of the little boys. How eagerly they climbed into that canoe, and how glad they were to be landed safely once more on the shore.
ML 04/22/1951