A LITTLE boy was passing along a street one day, with a book under his arm, when a gentleman coming up to him said, “Can you tell me the way to Waterloo Station, my lad?”
“Yes, sir,” cheerfully replied the boy; “and I can tell you the way to heaven, too.”
The gentleman looked surprised. “Well, my boy, I should like to know both ways.”
“Straight before you, sir, no turnings, will bring you right to the station, and,” (looking up to the gentleman’s face with a happy smile,) “Jesus says, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life;’ and that’s the way to heaven, sir.”
Did that little boy know what you do not?
Are you trying some way of your own to be saved? Now, what’s the use? Jesus says, “I am the way.”
Do you believe it, that Jesus, and He alone, is the way to the Father? Yes, you say, I do. Why then not go to Him? Do you doubt if you would be made welcome? Then why did God send His Son into the world at all? Was it not that He might open a way for poor sinners back to God? Yes, dear friends, Jesus did so, through His death on Calvary’s cross.
And now let me tell you that you may go right to God the Father, through Jesus, and find a welcome, yea, more than a welcome. Think of the Father’s grace to the prodigal. Such is God’s heart, dear anxious one, towards you. “I am the way.”—Selected.
It was a fine example of true docility and submission which a child exhibited when, having met with a severe accident, one of his limbs was about to be amputated. His mother was weeping beside him; but the little boy looked up, smiling in spite of all his suffering, and said, “It must be all right, dear mama, for God makes no mistakes.”—Selected.
ML 08/06/1899