Look at the big pile of shining white snow, and a dear little boy named Cyril standing in it! The snow looks so beautiful and clean, and yet we know it will all melt away in the bright sunshine, and be gone before long. As time goes on, even the buildings and trees will disappear too. Even Cyril himself will have to leave this world someday, but that will not be the end of him.
Yes, dear children, everything in this world must pass away sooner or later, but every boy and every girl, every man and every woman, have within them a soul that will live on and on. Every one must spend eternity in either heaven or hell, and that is why we have given you this little gospel paper. It is the earnest desire of Cyril’s dear father and mother that their little boy should be saved, so that he may spend eternity in heaven, and it is our earnest desire that you, dear reader, should be there too.
But how can sinful boys and girls be in God’s bright home above where sin can never enter? God says “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:2323For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23). If we are going to be there our sins must be washed away, and there is only one way this can be done. Each one who wishes to be saved must take his or her place as a lost sinner and put his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood “cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7). The Lord Jesus bore the judgment of sin at the cross and now, as a risen Saviour, He offers a full pardon and a free salvation to all who come to Him. He has said,
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