WE are told that at the time of the Reformation, when Bibles were very scarce, a little girl, passing through the printing office where they were being printed, picked up a small piece of paper, and read, “God so loved the world that He gave.”
This was all, but it brought new light to her heart. It presented God as a giver.
She read it over and over again. She put it in her bosom, and daily she would take it out, and read it.
It wrought a marvelous change in her thoughts about God, and now her life became a life of joy.
Her mother noticed the wonderful change in her daughter’s life, and one day asked her the cause of it.
She drew out the slip of paper, and handed it to her mother, saying, “There mother, that is the cause.”
They came to the conclusion that it must be a portion of God’s Word. They procured a Bible, and after much searching discovered the verse, and were overwhelmed with joy when they read what He had given. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).)
ML 07/09/1916