PERHAPS each dear child who reads this paper has thanked God for some things. God has given us food and clothes, home and friends, health and strength, and many other things for which we often thank Him, but we may not remember to thank Him for the beautiful things we see and hear around us.
What pleasure we take in the bright spring time, when everything is fresh and green, when the beautiful flowers begin to bloom, and when the merry birds are singing all about us!
Summer follows with its abundant crops and other blessings; then fall, with its mild, pleasant days and beautiful autumn leaves.
Each season is different from the others, and we appreciate the change, and enjoy each as it comes.
Last of all we have winter, and I know many of my readers are glad to see the beautiful white snow. The millions of flakes falling so softly and silently have an attraction for us as they cover the ground, the fences, the buildings, the trees; everything, with a mantle of white.
After a new fallen snow we can see very plainly any dark object moving about, such as the rabbits running so swiftly over the snow, and the snow-birds hopping about on the white branches.
While we are thanking God for all these pleasant scenes He gives us, we are reminded of the greatest, most wonderful gift of all. It is a gift that God offers to everyone. Some of you have accepted it. If there is one of you who has not, may you do so at once.
This wonderful gift of God is “Eternal Life.”
“The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6:23.
God gave His own beloved Son to die on the cross, so that we need not die, but instead, receive everlasting life. The precious blood of Jesus was shed to wash away our sins, so that we may enter God’s presence without any sins upon us. He says,
“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” Isaiah 1:18.
ML 11/22/1925