| “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near” (Isaiah 55:6). |
| More than forty years ago I was handing out invitations to Sunday school near the place where we had Sunday school every Lord’s Day. Since I did not know who lived in the houses, I knocked on every door, and in one house I met an old man who was lying on the sofa in his living room. I apologized for bothering him, but told him I was looking for children to come to Sunday school. To my surprise he said, “I went to that Sunday school when I was a boy.” Then he began to sing the hymn, “Tell me the old, old story, of unseen things above.” His voice was weak, but he sang the first verse and the chorus perfectly from memory. I was impressed, and asked him how long ago he had learned that song. “Well,” he said, “I am seventy-seven years old now, and I was seven when I learned it, so I guess it was seventy years ago.” The Sunday school had been going on in that neighborhood for a long time, so all this was quite possible. He had likely attended the Sunday school in the early 1900’s. |
| We talked for a couple of minutes, and then I asked him, “Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior?” His answer made me very sad, for he said, “Not yet.” He had heard the gospel clearly as a boy, yet here he was, getting weaker and nearing the end of his life, yet he was not saved. |
| It is possible to be like this man — to have heard the gospel clearly, and even to have learned gospel songs, yet not to be saved. I hope that all those who are reading this story are truly saved. How wonderful it is to come to Christ when we are young! |
