I WANT to tell my little friends of a lady I called to see who was very sick, and the doctor had said she could never get better. Before she was taken sick, she was attending some gospel meetings, and became very much troubled about all the sins she had committed, and wanted to know how she could have them forgiven.
One night, after she went home from a gospel meeting, she could not go to sleep, so at last she got on her knees, and told the Lord that she wanted to have her sins forgiven, and she accepted Christ as her Saviour there and then. She was then very happy, for she knew her sins were all put away from God’s sight, and the precious blood of Jesus had washed her whiter than snow.
Not very long after this she became very sick, and suffered a great deal of pain. When I went to see her, she said, “Oh, how glad I am that I did not put off any longer believing on the Lord Jesus as my Saviour, for my poor body is so full of pain, I could not think much about my precious soul!”
How important it is, dear little children, that you should not wait any longer, but believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, at once. You cannot see into the future, and do not know when you may be called away from this world. Thousands of little boys and girls die every day, and you do not know but that your turn may come soon. And then we do not know when the Lord Jesus will come, and, in the twinkling of an eye, take all who love Him to be forever with Him, and leave the unsaved behind for judgment. He may come today. How sad it would be if any of our little readers should die unprepared, or be left behind when the Lord Jesus calls His own away!
May you put off no longer accepting Christ, but believe on Him as your own Saviour now, and if death should take you away, or the blessed Lord should come, you would be taken into His presence to spend eternity with Him.
E. B. H.
ML 09/16/1900