ADEAR little girl named Frances was a great pet of all her friends. She was not yet three years old but knew many hymns from memory. One day she begged to be taken to Sunday school. When the Sunday school teacher saw her come into the room, he gave out a hymn that he knew she loved:
“I am so glad that our Father in heaven,
Tells of His love in the Book He has given.
Wonderful things in the Bible I see,
This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.”
Little Frances stood up and sang with all her heart. When the teacher said, “Now we will sing the chorus softly,” Frances still sang as loudly as ever, and her clear childish voice could be heard all over the room: “Jesus loves even me.”
One girl in the senior class, named Beth, was an old Sunday scholar and attended regularly. But while she listened to that sweet voice, she felt it piercing her all the while like an arrow to her heart.
“I cannot sing those words, I cannot sing those words,” she kept thinking. Then she looked at the dear little child, unconsciously singing away, and burst into tears.
Finally one of the teachers closed the meeting with a few words of prayer, praying that each boy or girl might know and believe the love of God and the gift of His Son. Then the teacher went up and led Beth sobbing into a side room. He saw that an arrow had pierced her soul. No words of his could comfort her.
“I am such a sinner,” she sobbed; “I am such a sinner.” This was her only answer to all he could say to her. However, as the time went by, Beth began to see that the Lord Jesus loved her, and that He had died for all her sins. Beth believed this, and before night she was rejoicing in Christ her Saviour. That evening she joined with the rest in singing the very hymn that had touched her heart in the afternoon: “Jesus loves even me.”
Dear young friend, do you believe that the Lord Jesus came into this world to die for you? Do not rest until you know with assurance that all your sins have been washed away in His precious blood. This is the only way you can be saved. Going to Sunday school, doing good deeds, will never atone for one of your sins, nor give you peace with God.
ML-09/15/1963