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A sweet story related to the song "Jesus Loves Even Me". Distribute this brochure among children and teach them the song.
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About 150 years ago, around the summer of 1870, Philip P. Bliss (1838-1876), introduced a simple song which soon became popular and which has been a favorite of many ever since. Perhaps you are familiar with it:
I am so glad that our Father in Heaven
Tells of His love in the Book He has given;
Wonderful things in the Bible I see,
This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me;
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves even me.
If I forget Him and wander away,
Still He doth love me wherever I stray;
Back to His dear loving arms would I flee,
When I remember that Jesus loves me.
Jesus loves me, and I know I love Him;
Love brought Him down my poor soul to redeem;
Yes, it was love made Him die on the tree;
Oh, I am certain that Jesus loves me!
Philip Bliss and his wife lived in Chicago at the time and were well acquainted with the evangelist D. L. Moody and with his famous singing associate Ira D. Sankey.
About a year after this song was introduced, what is called “The Great Chicago Fire” took place, and a large part of that great city was destroyed and 100,000 people were left homeless.
Ira D. Sankey was one of many who worked to help those who had been hurt by the fire. He conducted a large Sunday school where he taught this song to many who attended. Among those who attended was a girl whom this writer has chosen to call “Emily” since Ira did not tell us her name when writing of this incident relating to this song:
“During the winter after the great fire in Chicago, when the place was being built up with small frame houses for the poor, a mother sent for me one day to visit her little sick girl, who was one of our Sunday school scholars. I remembered her quite well, and was glad to go. Finding that she was beyond hope of recovery, I asked how it was with her.
“‘It is all well with me,’ she replied; ‘but I wish you would speak to father and mother.’
“It was plain that she loved Jesus, and I asked her when she became a Christian. ‘Don’t you remember last Thursday in the Tabernacle,’ she said, ‘when we had the children’s meeting, and you sang ‘Jesus loves me,’ and don’t you remember how you told us that if we would give our hearts to Him He would love us? It was that day that I gave myself to Jesus. And now I am going to be with Him, for the doctors say that I will die today.’
“The testimony of that little girl, in that neglected quarter of the city, did more to encourage me to sing on than anything else, for she was my first convert.”
Yes, the girl whom we have called Emily had been converted—she had been saved! She knew she was going to heaven; and she was looking forward to going to heaven, to be with Jesus, that very day. Now, if you had been in Emily’s place, about to die, would you have been as happy as she was? If you had died as she did, would you be as happy right now as she is right now?
The Lord Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14:1-6
Every one of us will someday come before God, but Jesus was telling His disciples that they would come to heaven as to the Father’s house—to God as Father; and He assured them that they would be there and that He would personally bring them there. Will he bring you there? Are you sure? Jesus wanted His disciples to know, to be sure; and He wants the same for you. His disciples were given assurance, though they did not realize it or understand it at the time. But, later, one of His disciples wrote:
“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” 1 John 5:13.
Do you believe what Jesus said? Do you trust Him as Emily did?