A FEW weeks ago, a girl, apparently well and strong, sat in a Bible Class for young women and girls, under the sound of God's Word.
For many years she had come to that Class, many times had God spoken to her, and her teacher could see that God was exercising her as to her soul's salvation.
As she grew older her mind seemed to be full of other things, the world seemed to attract her But there is One stronger than the god of this world, and that is the God who gave His Son to die for sinners like you and me.
On this afternoon, E. was touched as God's Word was read; her teacher felt a work was going on with several, especially E. and her friends, and at the end she found that E. had come as a guilty sinner to the Saviour of sinners, and got peace through knowing that on Calvary's cross that Saviour bore her sins, for she was among the number spoken of as "all that believe." Six others also confessed the Lord, and few belonging to that Bible Class of over seventy girls went away untouched. Many went away rejoicing, for they had long prayed for these dear girls.
E. went home, and at the back of her little Testament she put her name into this verse.
On the following Thursday evening she went for a walk with her friends. Before this they had gone to the Pictures on Thursday evenings, but now they had come to Jesus, and they knew they would not think about Him at the Pictures. They had started to follow Him, and they would not learn of Him, nor about Him, there.
E. got home about 8.30 p.m. She had her supper, read a chapter of God's word, and went to bed.
Soon after, she was taken ill, and her parents, becoming alarmed, asked the next door neighbor to come in.
When E. saw her, she said, "You will help my mother, won't you?”
The neighbor replied, "Why are you talking like this, dear?”
E. answered, "I'm dying, give me my Testament." Then looking at her mother, "Mother, I can see heaven open in front of me"; and lying back upon her pillow, she died.
Reader, if this were your last moment would it be God's Word you would ask for as that on which you were resting your soul? Do you know anyone in heaven? If not, you will never get there. If you do not know the One who is the center of heaven's joy no heaven will ever open in front of you, but your place will be where you will remember that God warned you of the wrath to come.
If you have not come to Jesus as a lost, guilty sinner, and found in Him that which God requires for that which is past in your life, as well as all that you are, then come now to the God who loves you. Open your Bible at John 3 verse 16, and put your name in where E. put her's, and rest on God's word.
Is one who reads this a Sunday School teacher? Is your heart sad because some of the members of your class seem hard, and as they grow older come less often to class? Does the god of this world seem to be having all his own way?
Look up! There is One stronger than the strong man. He sees your heartache, and He knows. Just go on sowing the seed, and bringing the members of your class, one by one, to Him in prayer.
Always have one aim—to bring them to the feet of Jesus. The teacher of this class felt compelled to speak personally to some of these girls, and as she looked on the dear, dead face of E. how she thanked God that He had given her courage to speak at the right moment!
She had to wait five years for the harvest, but if it was five times that number it would have been worth it, for E. was absent from the body, but present with the Lord. (2 Cor. 5:88We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8).) F. C. C.