You can easily guess who is to receive these beautiful flowers. The teacher? Yes, and so pleased was she to have the lovely bouquets brought to her that she took a. “snap” of the clear boys and their gifts so that she could still HAVE the flowers long after they were faded. The boys look pleased, too, do they not? Happy that their flowers had given so much pleasure. Were they old faded flowers they brought? Ah! no these were cut that day from Mother’s garden.
Once there was a girl whose aunt knew and loved the Lord Jesus. She sought to point her young niece to the Lord that she, too, might find Him as her Saviour and give herSelf to Him in her YOUTH. But Mary was careless and continually put off this most important question, saving that when she was OLDER would be time enough but not now.
One day a very dear friend of Mary’s became ill. Her aunt said it would be a cheer to the sick one to take her some flowers, so told Mary to go into the garden and pick a bunch of the loveliest ones she could find. This was soon done and Mary came in all eageess to run off with them to her friend.
O, no, not now—” said the aunt. “We shall leave them for a few days till they are withered and faded.”
“Why, Auntie, you would not send anymore WITHERED flowers would you? Let us give them NOW while they are sweet and fresh.”
“Mary,” said the aunt seriously, “you would not give faded flowers to a friend, but you would keep back your young, fresh life from the Lord, thinking to bring it to Him later when time and the withering power of sin have spoiled it. NOW in your youth, is the time to be saved, and give to the Lord your young heart.”
Mary saw the point and not long after accepted Christ as her Saviour and Lord.
“REMEMBER NOW THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH.” Ecc. 12:1.
ML 09/01/1946