WHEN John Bunyan — who wrote the Pilgrims Progress — was a lad, he was not a good boy, but a very bad one.
One day he was standing by a little store window and heard some people swearing. So he began to swear too.
An angry woman from the shop came out and said, “Shame on you! shame on you! You will be the ruin of the parish, swearing in that way!”
John hung his head and began to cry, “O God!” he sobbed, “that I could be a little child again, that I might forget all these wicked words and know nothing about them!”
And that’s just what happened when Jesus came into his heart. In spirit he did become a little child once more, for he was “born again” and his sins were washed away.
ML-03/24/1974