A LITTLE girl, Emma by name, was once left in a room for a few minutes with a gentleman. Wishing to entertain him till her parents came back, she took up her father’s pocket Bible, saying, “Would you like to read a little from this? This is my father’s book, and I don’t often see him reading anything else.”
Dear little friends, can you tell why Emma’s papa was so fond of this book? I will tell you, because it tells about Jesus. Jesus is the Son of God, the One who made this world, and when He saw that all the people in it, both old and young, were sinners and not fit to go up to His home in heaven until all their sins were washed away, He loved them so much that He left that home above for a season, came down into this world and suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that we should not have to be punished for them, and that He might take all who believe in Him and love Him, up to His glorious and everlasting home in the mansions beyond the sky where God dwells.
Did you ever hear of this Jesus who died to save you? Do you love Him and the book that tells about Him? When He was down here in this world, He once said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not.” When little Emma was twelve years old she found the Lord Jesus as her own Saviour, then the bible became her book as it had been her father’s.
This book cheered her in all her trouble and turned her sorrow to joy. As years passed by and the time came for her to leave her earthly home, she said, “I’m going to my heavenly home, now. I shall soon see Jesus. I have loved Him nearly all my life; now, I am going to be forever with Him.”
Can you say, “It is my book, too?” Dear children, there is no one loves you so much as Jesus. The Bible says that He loved us and gave Himself for us; that He suffered and died for our sins so that if we believe in Him; He will wash all our sins away, and take us up to that bright, heavenly home where Emma is. If you have no Bible, ask your papa to get you one, so that you might learn of and love that Person who was called JESUS, because He would save, His people from their sins. Matt. 1:21. W. S.
ML 06/25/1899