IT WAS a foggy Monday morning 1 in Florida. The school bus was loaded with children. The driver paused at the railroad crossing; vision was poor, and the driver thinking all was clear proceeded to cross the tracks. Suddenly, out of the gloom, a fast freight train loaded with oranges appeared, and hit the school bus. Many of the children were killed or badly hurt. They were rushed to the hospital in ambulances.
A local Christian preacher went to the scene of the wreck and helped put the injured ones into the ambulances. Among them was little Sharon whom he knew. On the very night before the accident Sharon had confessed her faith in the Lord Jesus as her Saviour.
“Aren’t you glad you confessed the Lord Jesus as your Saviour last night?” he asked.
“Oh, I’m so glad that I did!” she replied.
How good and needful it is to be ready, dear boys and girls. “We know not what a day may bring forth.” We do not know how soon we may be suddenly ushered out of this world into eternity. “There is but a step between me and death,” 1 Samuel 20:33And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death. (1 Samuel 20:3). Come to the Saviour now; get it all settled bore it is too late, and then you’ll be ready to meet God no matter what happens.
ML-01/18/1976