ON the outskirts of a watering-place, an old man is coming along in a donkey chair. He does not appear to possess mud in this world, but he looks very happy. “Dear me!” I hear one woman say to another at a cottage door, “why there’s old Mr.— Who would have thought of ever seeing him again!” from which I gather that he has been very ill.
What is he saying to everyone he meets? It occurs to me that he is not right in his mind, but by-and-bye I hear the words, “Do you love the Lord? He’s the One to make you happy.” And again, “Do you know the Lord? He is the Saviour.” And then, evidently receiving an assent from an old woman, he calls to his donkey boy, “Stop, stop! let me shake hands with her,” and I catch the words, “Let Him have His kingdom in your heart.” Passing a group farther on, I hear again, “Do you know the Lord Jesus? He’s the One to make you happy,” and his bright face speaks that the Lord had made him happy.
Well, I think to myself, right in his mind or not, he is right in his heart, for he has “Christ dwelling in his heart by faith,” and he has learned to “rejoice in the Lord.” Have you and I, my reader? Have we found in Him “enough and to spare,” so that “He’s the One to make you happy” comes with reality from our lips? H. L. H.