My Little Class of Five

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Only five little girls! Who would waste their time with such a class as that? Better go where you can get something worth doing.”
So I was told again and again, but I stuck to my little class of five. They were sometimes unruly enough, and more than once I was tempted. to leave it to someone else, though I never did it, but toiled on, seeking their salvation. Today, my little class of five, are all Christians, saved by grace, serving the same Lord of whom I told them twenty-five years ago, seeking in the same old Sunday school to lead others to Christ.
C. the youngest, was the first to be saved. Her sister died, and was laid in the snow-covered churchyard on a New Year’s day. This aroused C. to think of her own salvation. A week after she came to tell me she was saved by believing,
“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:14,1514And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:14‑15).
One after another, of the other four, “came to Jesus” during that year, and the whole five have gone on steadily, devotedly following the Lord, and serving Him ever since.
What a joy it is to me to see them, and to hear from their lips how happy they are in the Saviour’s love. Not one of them regrets being early brought to Jesus, to accept Him as their own personal Saviour, and to confess and own Him as their Lord. I am sure neither will you, if you decide to be His, and allow Him to save and set you on the way to heaven. Trust and confess Jesus now.
ML 08/07/1938