SOME weeks ago a friend of mine was asked to go and see a man I knew by sight, who was lying in bed very ill a few houses further along the street. When my friend saw the man, he knew he was so ill that he would never get well again, so he leaned down, and said quietly to him, “Do you know Jesus?”
The poor man shook his head. Then my friend said, “Do you want to know Him?” and again the man shook his head. After saying a little more my friend had to come away. A few days later that poor man died.
Do you not think it was very sad that he died without knowing Jesus?
I heard not very long ago of a little hoy who was asked the same question, “Do you know Jesus?” He said, “Yes.” So the old man who asked him said, “Who is He, then?” and the boy said, “He is my Savior.”
Yes, dear boys and girls, Jesus is the Savior of all who believe that He died instead of them on the cross, and bore the punishment that they deserved.
Now let me ask you the same question: Do you know Jesus as your Saviour? If you cannot say, “Yes,” I must ask you too, “Do you want to?” Do not think you can wait until you are bigger because Jesus may come and take all the boys and girls who believe in Him to be with Him Forever before you have finished reading this page, and then it will be too late for you to say, “I want to be saved.”
God tells us in His Book that we are sinners, and deserve to go to hell, but that Jesus bore our sins in His own body on the Cross, and if we believe on Him, our sins are all forgiven.
ML-09/26/1920