MY Dear Mrs. R.—I was very glad to receive your letter; it was really the best’ one I received this summer. I thank you very much for telling me about why Jesus don’t kill Satan. I can understand and I see that if Jesus did kill Satan there would still be evil in the world, because sin is born into them.
I thank you also very much for those tracts. I sent to my mother “I have Christ, what want I more,” “The Three Bidders” and “A Terrible Panic,” and I asked her whether she could say these beautiful words, “I have Christ, what want I more.” I know I can say them, and I am so glad I can.
The other day I went down to the village for Mlle. (his French teacher) and when I went down, I mean when I was going down the hill; I felt so, so glad—gladder than I ever felt before, because I love Jesus and Jesus loves me. Jesus was with me and I was with Jesus.
I am sending you three two-cent stamps, which is six cents, to please send me some different tracts. I am going to try to make other people Christians because I pity them so much, and so I will give them around. . . .
PAUL D. W.
Dear young reader, I hope you will think much about what this dear boy has written and that you may drink in of the spirit of his letter.
To be so filled with Jesus that one is “so, so glad” of His love and of His presence, is truly blessed. And it is when one is thus filled with Christ that he becomes a source of blessing to others. Little Paul is not satisfied to enjoy alone this rich blessing from God. He has compassion for those who are away from God, and wishes to do what he can to bring them to Christ. Thus the light is shining.
And his heart is full of love. He felt gladder as he went down the hill than ever he felt before, because he felt the love of Jesus welling up in his soul—he loved Jesus and Jesus loved him. Is not this beautiful?
Is your heart filled with the love of Jesus thus? If not, seek earnestly that you may know what this means.
Are you seeking the good and blessing of others? “Shine ye as lights in the world.”
May this little letter stir us all up to seeking more earnestly the face of Jesus.
ML 09/27/1903