What a pleased and happy look this dear boy has on his face as he carries home to Mother his bag of vegetables! We can irnagine that early in spring he and Daddy had planted the potatoes, carrots, beets and other garden plants and that all summer long they had worked hard all, and toiled keeping down the weeds, hoeing, watering and in many other ways caring for their garden. But now is the harvest time and so with real joy and pleasure this little boy is carrying hone his heavy load of good things for all the family to enjoy.
Thus it will be with those who seek to sow the precious seed of the Word—that is, to tell others of the blessed. Saviour Who came to die for sinner, and Who invites boys and girls to come to Him and receive His wonderful gift of eternal life.
Grace and Margaret were two little girls who sought to do this. One day they came running home to their, mamma saying,
“O mamma, we’ve been telling our little playmate all about Jesus, and we want to give him a tract so he might get saved.”
Their mamma found a Sunday school, paper to give him, and back they ran to their little friend. Knowing he was too little to read, they waited till mamma came and gave it to her, so could she could read it to him.
The Bible says, “My word shall not return unto Me void,” Isa. 55:11, and again in Psa. 126:6 we read,
“He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”
We hope little Grace and Margaret will continue to bear precious seed for the blessed Lord, and never be ashamed to tell of the One Who loved them and lave Himself for them.
May each one of you boys and girls who know Jesus as your own Saviour, seek to tell others of the precious Savur, that they, too, may be saved.
A very small girl was one day in a station with her parents. Suddenly a poor man came along led by a policeman and having handcuffs on his wrists. He was being taken to prison. So unhappy did he look that it touched the wee girl’s tender heart, and going tip to the prisoner she said,
“Poor man, do you know that Jesus loves you?”
Tears stood in her eyes and her look of loving compassion quite melted the hard heart of the man of sin. As he passed on, her words rang in his ears,
“Poor man, do you know that Jesus loves you?”
Did Jesus love him, a sinner such as he? Day and night the words echoed in his heart: until the mighty love of Jesus completely broke him down, and be “knew and believed” the love that God had for him. So the child’s simple words were used to bring another lost sheep to the seeking Shepherd and a Saviour.
“IN THE MORNING SOW THY SEED AND IN THE EVENING WITHHOLD NOT THY HAND FOR THOU KNOWEST NOT WHETHER SHALL PROSPER, EITHER THIS OR THAT, OR WHETHER THEY BOTH SHALL BE ALIKE GOOD.” Ecc. 11:6.
May the Lord help us all to do as this verse tells us!
ML 08/04/1946