Memory's Pearl

 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 10
 
A news reporter interviewing a celebrated lady in Ontario asked: "And which day do you recall as the happiest day in your life?"
From the countless pleasant memories harvested during ninety-five happy years, she immediately called back this pearl of them all: "It was," she replied, "the day when as a little girl of seven I took the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior."
Take my love: my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its boundless store;
Take myself, and I would be
Ever, only, ALL for Thee.
A girl who met Frances Ridley Havergal, the well known hymn writer, for just a brief moment, said that seeing the face of this dear Christian woman was the means of her conversion. "I am so glad," she said, "that I saw, just once, that God-satisfied face."