I expect we all love that beautiful incident in the twenty-fourth chapter of Luke, fifteenth verse: “And Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.” We have just had a further beautiful testimony to its everlasting blessing. Read the verse before you read any further, and you will see why He so graciously joined them so unexpectedly and so full of loving-kindness. Have you read the verse? If so, you will perceive that they had been communing together about Him and reasoning. The Lord heard what they said, so He drew near and went with: them. Dear friends, He will do the same now when we commune together of Him and His glorious work.
Now the reason why I said above, “We have had a further testimony,” it was my first Christmas card, and my friend who sent it to me said, “I saw this card in a shop one day and thought of you. I send it now with loving wishes that you may have the “best of all,” which will mean all peace and joy: peace which the world cannot give nor take away. Do you remember writing it in the Bible you gave me when I went (as a missionary) to Japan “and they two went together”? They two are still going on. Ah! yes, it is long ago now, for she was many years at Nagasaki teaching Japanese girls. I well remember how this thought of her being a missionary began. It was at a Church Missionary Society meeting, and the deputation earnestly entreated for help there. I turned to my friend and said: “Do you offer?” She did; was accepted, and set sail quickly after. So now, having sent this card, she will be the means of many receiving a blessing on the words: “Jesus Himself drew near and went with them.”
He is only too willing to come and walk with us, to be our Guide and Director in all we say and do. Only commune with Him, and He will teach, and you will glorify Him, specially by giving praise, for He says in Psalms 1:25, “Whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me.”
Emily P. Leakey.