A FEW days ago a little boy came running down the street crying as hard as he could cry. We went out to him and asked him what he was crying for. He said, “I don’t know where my home is, and I want to go home.” We asked him his name and when he told us it was Gordon H. we promised we would take him home. But it was a long time before we could get the little boy to acknowledge that he was lost. He thought he was going in the right way toward his home, but instead of that he was going further away from it all the time. We asked him a number of questions, and told him we knew his mamma, and his brothers, and had often been at his house, and promised to get the horse and drive him home. At last we got him to believe we knew where his home was, and would take him there, so he stopped crying. This dear little boy was like many people today. The word of God tells them they are lost, and they say, “Oh yes, we are all lost by nature,” etc., but do not own that they are unable to do anything toward saving themselves, or that they need a Saviour, who is not only able but willing to save them. They have not found out, what little Gordon did, that they must stop trying to save themselves and let another do all for them. As soon as Gordon gave up his own will, and committed himself into our hands, and allowed us to do all for him, he was quite happy. And I think some little girl or boy who reads this will say, “He had good reason to be happy, for he was perfectly safe.” And how safe are all those who have put their trust in the Lord Jesus as their own Saviour, and how happy they should be.
ML 11/04/1900