I was brought to the Lord when a girl of ten years old. It happened in this way. I was passing along the street one evening on my way home from my music lesson, when I saw a circle of people standing around a man who was preaching. Curiosity led me to go up and hear what he was saying-. Just as I got up to the place, I heard the words,
“If death should overtake you tonight as you are, how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?” said the speaker with great earnestness.
I walked away, but that question followed me. I could not forget it. All that night it came up again and again.
There was a girl in my class, whom I had heard spoken of as “saved.” I thought I would tell her what had occupied my thoughts. I watched an opportunity, and one day I met her outside the playground, and did so. She put her arm in mine, and told me how she had been in the same way herself, and how the Lord saved and made her happy. It was all new to me, I had never heard of any one being saved and sure of heaven bore. I accepted Mary’s Saviour as mine, I believed He died for me, and I was saved.
ML 04/02/1939