There were two sad hearts one bright day in the beautiful home where lived the happy family of B—.
The house was large and beautiful, surrounded by exquisite scenery and lofty mountains, and greatly did each member of that family love their home.
As the children grew up, they one by one left home, and now they were being scattered over the world.
On the day of which we write, Freda and Lucille were about to start their new life away from home. Their father was accompanying them to two different places, where they were to stay for a few years, as governesses, until they had learned the language. After this, they were each to decide what they would like to take up for their life’s work.
With Christian parents, and the whole home life having been lived in the fear of God, it was not until Freda had parted from her father, and to some extend bome accustomed to her new surrounngs, that she began to realize that ahough her parents and many of her much-loved brothers and sisters belonged to the Lord, she herself had no link with God.
The miserable home-sickness gradually gave way to far deeper misery of soul anxiety as she realized that although she had been so carefully and religiously brought up, she was a guilty lost sinner in God’s sight, and unless she turned to Him and had her sins forgiven, there was nothing but God’s judgment, and a lost eternity before her.
The lady with whom she lived, although a professing Christian, could not in the least understand her deep distress.
“Surely, Miss B—,” she would say, “such a good religious girl as you are, need not trouble about being converted.”
However, when God opens anyone’s eyes to see his or her lost condition in His sight, then comes the cry,
“What must I do to be saved?”
Freda wrote to her sister, imploring her to help her. Lucille was with Christian people, and she showed them Freda’s letters. They at once wrote to an earnest Christian lady whose home was not many miles from the town where Freda was living, telling her of Freda’s desire for help.
Before this friend had an opportunity of calling to see Freda, Lucille sent her a simple Gospel tract, putting God’s way of salvation very simply. Freda eagerly read how God can and does forgive any sinner, all his sins as soon as he owns himself to be lost and needy, because Christ Himself has borne the judgment of those sins on the cross.
“His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” 1 Peter 2:24.
God blessed the reading of the little book to Freda, and in simple faith she turned to Him and trusted the Lord Jesus as her own Saviour, and then how great was the change that came over her!
The home-sickness was almost forgotten in the deep joy of knowing she was saved, and that her newly-found Saviour could be a Friend to her, and could fill her with joy and happiness in the sense of His Love.
When the Christian lady very shortly after met Freda, she found her rejoicing and happy, filled with a great desire to know more of her Lord and to live only for Him.
“The love of Christ constraineth us: ... that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again,” 2 Cor. 5:14,15.
ML 04/13/1941