It was a fine spring morning when Annie Lee, the truck gardener's daughter, tripped along the road toward the little town where she looked after her father's produce every market day. Nature had put on her beautiful garments of spring, and lay basking in the sunshine.
Annie sang in the joy of her heart that morning until the hills echoed with her voice. Do you know why? I will tell you. Just a week ago God had saved her soul.
It generally happens that on such occasions Satan is busily seeking to trip up the happy child of God and, if possible, spoil his testimony for Christ.
When Annie reached the market place she found an old companion of her unconverted days awaiting her at the stall. In this girl's company she had spent many an hour enjoying the foolish and sinful pleasures of the world. This friend, like Annie herself, was a good singer, and they had frequently sung duets together. When Annie saw her former companion awaiting her, the color came to her cheeks and Satan suggested, "do not tell her you have been converted; she will just laugh at you before them all.”
"Come on, Annie," said the girl, "I have been anxious to see you. I've found such a grand new song, and I want you to learn it. Just listen." And before Annie had time to reply she sang the first verse of the new song. At one time it would have been a charm to Annie Lee, but now she realized she had something so much better.
"And I have a new song too," said Annie cheerily. "Suppose I give you a bit of it.”
"O Christ, in Thee my soul hath found,
And found in Thee alone,
The peace, the joy I sought so long,
The bliss till now unknown.
"Now none but Christ can satisfy,
None other, name for me;
There's love and life and lasting joy,
Lord Jesus, found in Thee.”
The girl looked at her as if she had lost her mind. Then without saying a single word she picked up her basket and walked away.
But Annie's song and happy testimony did their work. In a short time the careless girl was saved, and she too found her delight in singing of Jesus.
"He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God." Psa. 40:2, 32He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. (Psalm 40:2‑3).