While Percy was walking along the road he was knocked down by a motor car. When he was picked up, he was so terribly injured that he was rushed off in an ambulance to the hospital. After he had been attended to, doctor told the men to carry him to the ward.
“No, no,” said the boy, “I don’t want to stay here; O! please take me home.”
The doctor seeing his distress allowed him to be taken home. On his arrival his mother said to him,
“Why did you not stay in the hospital? Your body is so badly cut!”
“Never mind my body,” said Percy, “it is my soul I am worried about. O! do send for Uncle at once. O, Mother, I may die tonight, and I am not saved!”
Seeing his agitation, she sent at once for the uncle, but as he was not at home, his aunt went instead. She spoke to him of the Lord Jesus, until the uncle came, and then together they talked of God’s wonderful gift, and read to him John 3:16, 3616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36).
About ten o’clock, after much exercise of soul, He exclaimed,
“I see it! I believe it I am not afraid now for I have the Lord Jesus: He won’t let me go I have seen Him tonight!”
The poor boy’s body was racked with pain, but not for one moment did he refer to it in the new-found joy of his salvation. His uncle thanked the Lord as he saw the reality of his nephew’s testimony. When Percy’s father came home he broke down on hearing the good news, from his boy.
A week or two later his mother wrote a letter to her father, a dear old servant of the Lord, in which she said,
“Percy is going on nicely; his wounds are not so painful, He is very happy; the Lord has indeed worked wonders. He is so different, he talks continually about Jesus, Who has found him. He longs to know more of Him that he may tell others of Jesus.
For some time of an evening we sit and talk of Him. The other night Percy read the precious texts he had marked, and then spoke to the children, not to put off the salvation of thir souls. “Come to Him at once,” he said, “Why I might have died that night. Think how terrible it would have been if not saved!” We sang hymns and then he said, “Nineteen years I have been without Him; now I want Him and him alone. No more picture-shows, no more trashy books, but His Word.”
O, dear boys and girls, and any who read this, are you ready to meet Him? Percy was brought face to face with death, and realized God was speaking to him. He came to Jesus, and will go to be forever with Him when He comes.
“God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever, believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
ML 02/16/1941