I WAS much touched lately in reading the life of that eminent and honored servant of God, Dr. Marsh, by what is told of his Tittle granddaughter Rosamond. She was called to die when very young, and a short time before her death she said, "I wish I were grown up, that I might do something to please the Lord Jesus.”
She was told that she need not wait until she was grown up to please Him, for she could do so at once by obeying Him, and that He had said, "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not.”
“Oh, I am so glad!" she replied, "for I have come to Him, I know. I am so glad it pleased Him.”
Dear child yet she but little knew how greatly her wish to please the Lord had pleased Him!
I thought, dear young readers of FAITHFUL WORDS, that I must relate to you the touching incident, in the earnest hope that you, by means of it, might be led to reflect,—to ask yourselves the grave and profitable question, Have I ever done anything to please the Lord Jesus? Have I ever tried to please Him?”
Are you obliged to say, "No, I have never done anything to please Jesus: I have never even tried to please Him"? If so, is it not sad? Never to have even tried to please One Who, out of pure love for you, laid down His life, and who daily loads us with His benefits? Had little Rosamond Marsh lived, she would, doubtless, have done many another thing to please the Lord she loved so well. You will not forget that this coming to Jesus is but the beginning of a life to be spent in pleasing Him.
But perhaps some will ask, "What things—what acts—shall I do to please Him?" And I would answer in the words of St. Paul: "Whether therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." Everything is included in that—lessons and play, as well as eating and drinking, and the "doing good" spoken of in another verse.