A LITTLE boy in the city of C—, has been very, very sick for over a month. So sick, that his loving parents and even the physician had little or no hope of his recovery for about a week. He had Typhoid Fever. Does not this remind you of Simon’s wife’s mother, spoken of an Mark 1:30,31? We are not told that she was sick long, but as soon as Jesus, the Great Physician, came in, and lifted her up and the fever left her. No one could be, sick or even dead, where Jesus, that perfect and loving Saviour, was.
Dear children, do you know Jesus as your own Saviour? Have you allowed Him to cure you of that incurable disease, Sin? I say incurable, because we are all sinners in God’s sight, and “The wages of sin is death:” So you see we had no power over death and were lost, but Jesus came “to save that which was lost.”
Well, nobody knew whether or not this little boy, N—, by name, had his sins washed away by the blood of Jesus, and this made his parents, —who belonged to the Lord Jesus—very anxious about their little boy; but as he was too sick to talk, they told the Lord all their troubles, and their prayers were most graciously answered. After a few days, the Dr. told them that he thought N— was out of danger.; and in another week, that one, who was so low, was able to be up and around: He is now quite a few pounds heavier than he was before he took wick.
The best news I have to tell you about N—, and what made his father and h’s mother feel so thankful for, is, that one day he went to his mother after he had been up a day or two and said, “Mamma, I was ready to die, if Jesus wanted to take me.” N— stood almost face to face with death, but as he knew that Jesus had died for his sins on that cruel cross, he was not afraid to die, because he knew that he would go up to be with the Lord and even be better off than in this wicked world.
Would N— have been afraid to die, if he had not known Jesus? Yes, if we die in our sins, we cannot go where Je sus is. John 8:21,24.
May each of you who read this little paper accept Jesus as your Saviour now. Tell Him how sorry you are for your sins, and that you want Him to wash them all away and make you one of His own little children. He never sends any one away that comes to Him. W. S.
“The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6:23.
ML 07/02/1899