A little girl, named Janie, went to a Sunday school, where she had a kind teacher, who was very anxious that all the dear children in her class should be saved, so she used to plead with them to come “now,” while they were still young, and rest alone in Jesus. And she told them, what many of the dear children who read this have been often told, that it is much easier to come “now,” while they are young, since every day adds fresh sins to the long black list; and she also told them of the dreadful judgment coming upon all who are not saved.
Little Janie listened very attentively, and the thought of being lost, of what a dreadful thing it is to be a sinner, made a deep impression upon her mind. In truth, the Holy Spirit was working with her, and when bed-time came on that Sunday evening, it was with a heavy heart that she lay down. Janie went to bed, but not to sleep, and she wished and longed that she was saved; her sorrow increased the more she thought of being shut out of heaven, until at last, about two o’clock in the morning, she could bear it no longer, but jumped out of bed, and called,
“Father, father!” Her father came up to her room, and she said,
“O, father, do pray for me; I am so sinful. Father, how can I be saved?”
Janie’s father could not very well answer his little girl’s question so he bade her say her prayers, and go to bed.
Janie went to bed again, but the load at her heart was still there.
“O,” she kept saying, “I do wish I was saved! How can I be saved!” when all at once she remembered that her teacher had said there was “notng for anyone to do, but that we had only to come, just as we are, to Jesus.”
Janie then wondered which was the right way to go. If Jesus had only been on earth it would have been easy; but she forgot that Jesus is more easy to go to now than when He was upon earth. At length she raised herself up in bed, and suiting the action to the word, she said,
“Here I am, Lord Jesus; take me just as I am.”
Her load went; she felt so happy, her tears were turned into joy, and from that very moment, trusting the Lord, she knew she was saved, and safe in the arms of Jesus.
ML 12/05/1943