ELLEN was the youngest child of Christian parents, who were anxious for their little one to know Jesus as her Saviour. So one autumn evening, while staying at home with her mother reading the tenth chapter of John, Ellen said, “Mother, do you think Jesus would save me tonight if I were to ask Him?” “Yes, certainly,” replied her mother. “Well; mother, it says here in this chapter, ‘No man can pluck them out of My Father’s hand.’”
“No,” replied her mother; “because if you believe in Jesus you are in His hand, and then the Father’s hand is over His again, so that you are safe.”
When Ellen went to bed, her mother said to her, “Ellen, shall we ask Jesus to save you and make you one of His lambs?”
“Yes, mother,” replied Ellen.
So mother and child knelt in prayer to Him whose ear is always listening, and who is ready and willing to save all who come to Him. Prayer ended, Ellen arose and said,
“There, mother, I knew Jesus would save me tonight before I went to bed.” Frank, her only brother, being in bed, Ellen said to him:
“Frank, dear, are you saved? if not, you are lost—only think, Frank, that I was saved tonight, Alice was saved on Sunday night, and if you were to be saved now what a rejoicing there would be in heaven; but better to be saved any time than lost.
“Think, Frank, that I am in Jesus’ hand, and then the Father’s hand is over that again. It is not like you taking my hand; no, Frank, you cannot feel it, but it is by believing it, and no man can pluck me out of that hand—no, not forty men. Frank, are you gone to sleep? remember, if you lose this opportunity, you may never have another.” Thus Ellen pleaded with her brother till twelve o’clock, so overcome with joy of being in her Father’s hand that not forty men could pluck her out.
Dear little reader, I want to ask you if you are in the Father’s hand? You are not too young to come to Jesus. He bids you, young or old, rich or poor, now, if you have not already come to Jesus—come now, just as you are. Then you, like Ellen, will be able to say, “I am in the Father’s hand, and not forty men can pluck me out.”
ML 09/30/1917