IZZIE drew the bed clothes ‘round her little sister and left her alone. Annia had been ill for a long time, and she often grew weary lying there. She wanted something to look at, for she was only seven years old. So slipping out of bed, she glanced ‘round the room, and seeing a paper on the table, she took it up and began to read. It was about a wicked man who did not believe in God, and when he died, he said, “I’m going, I’m going, I don’t know where!” He did not believe in the Home, nor in the things that God has prepared for those who love Him.
Annia did believe, so she softly repeated his words, altering them to suit herself: “I’m going, I’m going, I do know where! I’m going to Jesus; His home I shall share.”
The poor man, who had thought himself so wise, “by wisdom knew not God” (1 Cor. 1:2121For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. (1 Corinthians 1:21)). The child did not understand all about God, but she had learned that He loved her, and knew Jesus as “the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:66Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6).)
Dear young reader, where are you going?
ML-02/07/1960