A Word in Season

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IT was spoken to a boy of only four years old, by a friend of the family, who took up the child in his arms, and said to him, “There is such a thing, my dear child, as the pardon of sins; and there is such a thing as knowing it, too.” 1 John 2:12;512I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. (1 John 2:12)
12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. (1 John 5:12). 13. This loving appeal went to the conscience of the child. Often and often, as he grew up, did he think, “There is such a thing as the pardon of sins; and there is such a thing as knowing it, too;” and at fourteen years of age God gave him to believe that his sins were all pardoned, through faith in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rom. 3:2525Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; (Romans 3:25). The knowledge of the forgiveness of his sins made him very happy. And from the time that he got peace in believing he took a delight in making known the love of God to others.