Good morning, sir!”
This much used greeting was addressed by a boy to a man whom he had just met in the street.
“Good morning! But I don’t know you,” said the man.
“Yes, sir, you do. You knew me at school.”
“What school do you mean?”
“Why, the ‘God is Love’ school,” replied the boy.
He meant a certain Sunday school where this short text had been hanging for some years at the end of the room. It being the only wall text there, might account for its seeming, in the boy’s idea, a part and parcel of the school itself.
The man was pleased that the boy remembered the words, and hoped he might truly know God’s love.
The superintendent of the same Sunday school was once traveling abroad, and one day, with a number of friends, he entered a large stone quarry. As he explored its vast depths, candle in hand, he noticed on the roof the names of many persons who had visited the place before. Then he thought he would like to put there, not his own name, but this short text: “God is Love.”
So he held up his lighted candle, and carefully guided it while the smoke traced those precious words on the hard stone roof. What an unexpected message they would convey to the next persons who should come into that dark quarry!
Perhaps some would never have heard it till then. Others might have heard, but not heeded it. Let us ourselves always bear it in mind, as well as the saving truth that
ML 08/13/1944