SOME time ago, while passing along a busy thoroughfare in the large city of B—, I noticed a crowd beginning to assemble at a corner of the street.
On arriving at the spot, I found the center of attraction to be a little boy and girl, each holding the other’s hand, and by the sad look on their faces were on the verge of breaking down.
The word on the lips of the crowd was, “Lost!”
The children were looking from one face to another, in order to take in all of which Their little minds were capable.
Presently a lady forced her way in to the spot where the little children were standing.
Immediately they recognized their dear mother, and their once sad faces changed to smiles, as their mother bestowed a kiss upon each of them.
They realized now that they were found! I suppose, my unconverted reader, you do not know, or perhaps do not wish to think that you are in the same condition, that is, that you are lost! and that God in the fullness of His love has provided a means by which you might be saved from that terrible position, and that is in His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus.
God in His love sent His Son down to this world in order that you might be saved, and after all His good work down here, healing the sick, casting out devils, giving sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, and hearing to the deaf, cruel men took Him, our Lord Jesus, and put Him on that accursed tree at Calvary, and a soldier pierced His blessed side, for you, my unconverted reader.
Turn now to Him, and thank Him for all that He has done for you, and find peace and joy in believing, so that you can say, like an old friend of mine,
“Yes! Yes! Yes! O, Yes!
Jesus died for sinners just like me,
If you ask me how I know it,
John 3:16 will show it,
That big word ‘Whosoever’ just means me.”
ML 12/17/1916