“EFFIE, come here, I want you," said Tommy to his little sister.
But the tiny mite very naughtily answered, as she trotted off, " Very likely, but I want myself! "
How often in effect, if not in word, do some say this to the Savior and to His loving appeal, "Come unto Me." They want themselves and not Him. Yet they find out in the end that a life spent in pleasing themselves only means an unhappy life.
Dear boy or girl, Jesus says, "Come unto me," because He wants you. Oh! do not tell Him that you want yourself, and not Himself; but, feeling your need of Him, come to Him and trust, love and follow Him, and He will fill your heart and life with the joy and satisfaction of His own blessed company.
S. J. B. C.