How refreshing it is during the hot summer days, to take your lunch and go to some park or shady nook, near the water for a little outing.
How the dear children look forward to it, and their parents too, find much pleare in being with their little ones. Father and mother watch their enjoyment, and enter into their simple amusements, and we can imagine the dear little ones, at the close, saying, What a happy time we have had!
But, remember, dear children, unless your sins are washed away by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are ready to go when He conies to take away all of His own, you do not know what true happiness is,
If the Lord should come today, how many of you would be caught up with Him? It will be only those who are under the shelter of His precious blood.
Will you be among the number of those who will be changed at His coming—caught up to be forever with Him?
What peace and joy this gives to the heart wherever you are; and whenever that shout takes place, you will be ready to go. It may be while you are having a little picnic in the woods, or while you are at school, at home, or at Sunday-school.
ML 09/13/1942