WE have something to tell you children about a little girl. She was twelve years old, but had never been able to see. We who can look around us little understand what it must be never to be able to gaze upon the wonderful works of God on every hand—never to behold those by whom we are loved and cared, for. Such was the case with little blind Susie.
The first time I saw her she was very sad, and did not wish to talk to me. I tried to gain her interest by telling her something about the love of Jesus in coming down into this world to die for sinners, and asked her if she had ever realized that she was a sinner.
She made no reply; and soon I had to leave.
Some weeks had passed before I saw her again, and then it was at a gospel preaching, where I noticed her singing at the beginning of the meeting. After it was over I asked,
“Well, Susie, do you know anything about what Mr. C— has been telling us tonight?”
“Yes,” she answered, “I know that Jesus is my Saviour, and that my sins have been washed away in His precious blood.”
“But how do you know that?” I inquired.
A bright smile shone upon her face as she said,
“Jesus did it,
God says it,
I believe it.”
Little Susie was very happy now that she knew her sins were forgiven. She had taken her place before God as a lost sinner, and then had believed His Word in which she read that Christ Jesus died in her stead.
Will you not come to this loving Saviour now while there is time? He has never turned one away.
ML 08/06/1933