I WANT to tell you a true story, dear children, about a little boy called Spencer, of between nine and ten years old. Last summer I went to stay with his mother, and was grieved to see the dear boy looking so pale and ill. He did not care to run about and play with his brothers and sisters, but he would sit for a long time reading “Peep of Day,” or “Line upon Line.”
One day we were sitting together. Spencer had just shut up his book, and looking up, he said to me — “Do you think Jesus is coming soon?”
“Yes, dear, I do. Should you be ready, Spencer, if He came today?”
“Yes; I should not be afraid.”
A few months after the Lord Jesus took him. He became very deaf, so it was difficult to make him hear at all; he seemed to take very little notice of anything. The Friday afternoon before he was taken, he was sitting by the fire; his mother was in the room, he said “Do you belong to Jesus, mother? I do. I want you to come to heaven some day, and all my brothers and sisters, too.”
A few hours after this he became unconscious, and the Lord Jesus took him to be forever with Himself.
His mother and brothers and sisters do not mourn for dear Spencer, though they miss him so much.
Dear girls and boys, do you belong to the Lord Jesus? Can you say “He (Jesus) loved me, and gave Himself for me”? If the Lord Jesus called you, are you ready to meet Him? Have you come to Him as a helpless sinner, and asked Him to take you just as you are, and make you His child? Then you can say, as dear Spencer, “I am not afraid, I belong to Jesus.” A. M. P.