A soldier from Ebrington, Pte. B―., has sent home from the Holy Land to his parent the following photograph of a swarm of locusts. If you look well and closely at the picture, you will see swarms of these insects on the ground. They fly in such multitudes that often they darken the light of the sun. Where they pitch they destroy everything — a prosperous, fertile country becomes a barren desert if the insects are not destroyed. A lady who has traveled a great deal, tells me that trains are often stopped by swarms of locusts, which pile themselves in heaps on the railway tracks, and the wheels of the engine are made so slippery by the crushing of them that it cannot move.
What a picture, my reader, of what sin does in the human heart! It eats up every good thought and desire, and spoils the whole life. You must know that your drunkenness and blasphemy, and immorality is destroying every good impulse that you ever had. The only way these Eastern people can save their crops is to destroy the locusts that devour them. This they endeavor by every means to do. The only way for you, a sinner, to save your soul, is to have your sins taken from you. The only One Who can do that is the Lord Jesus. “He bore the sins of those who believe in Him in His own body on the tree.” To be freed from sin, and to be saved from its results, you most “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world,” and you must “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”