A Spanish Boy’s Conversion
Louis was a Spanish boy and lived with his grandmother on one of a group of little islands off the coast of Spain, and Louis grew up in ignorance of the love Of God and knew nothing of how the Lord Jesus died for sinners.
But one day a change came in Louis’ life. It was his fourteenth birthday. On that day, he heard the church bell tolling for someone who had died. As he listened, he counted the strokes of the bell—why, it struck fourteen! That meant that some boy or girl of fourteen had died—someone just his age. Where had the soul of the one who had died gone? Louis asked himself. And if he were to die, what would become of him? Ah! those were serious thoughts and Louis could not get them out of his head.
He became anxious about his soul and what came after death. His grandmother could not help him for she did not know the Lord herself. But she had a Bible in the house, which she gave to Louis.
I wonder if any of my readers are as anxious to be saved as Louis was. Perhaps some of you are fourteen years old and yet have not come to the Saviour who is waiting to bless you. None are too young to die. How important then to be sure of salvation!
Louis shut himself up alone with the Bible. It was quite a new book to him and as he read, he learned that he was indeed a sinner, but that
He was not saved that day, but as read on he saw the way of salvation and soon was rejoicing in the Lord Jesus his Saviour. How happy he was now He knew that if he were to die now, he would go to be with Jesus Who had loved him so much as to die for him.
His desire now was to tell others of the Saviour he had found. He would gather the town people together, and read to them from the Bible. Often he would take a boat and go from island to island, telling the fishermen of the Lord Jesus.
Have you found out yet that you need a Saviour? Are you in earnest, like Louis, or are you trifling with your soul’s salvation? Or do you put it off? Cone to Jesus today.
ML 06/11/1939