I’ve something to tell you,” said Wilfred W. one day as his aunt, who had just come to see her nephew, entered the room. Wilfred had just returned from school, where he was succeeding in his lessons very well, being a clever boy, and fond of his studies.
His aunt had heard lately how Wilfred had not only been taking an intest in his studies, but also in the study of the Word of God, and of this she was deeply thankful. So she replied, “Well, what is it, Wilfred?” wishing to test him. “A new toy?”
“O no,” said Wilfred, “something so much better than that; the best thing of all!”
Wilfred knew that his aunt would guess by this that he had made some discovery she was only too anxious he should make. So in reply to her astonished look of joy and satisfaction and question how it came about, Wilfred continued;
“Well, you know it all came about like this. My Sunday school teacher said she wanted all her boys to come over to the Lord’s side and take the Lord Jesus as their Saviour and serve Him, and I said ‘I did not want to, because I wanted to do as I liked, and I knew that if I became a Christian, I should not be able to do that. Besides there is plenty of time for a boy like me,’ I said.
“‘Well,’ said the teacher, ‘I am not so sure of that Wilfred, but suppose you look me out a text that says that there is Plenty of time, so that I and you can be quite sure that you need not come yet.’”
“So I took my Bible, auntie, and began to read it. One of the first texts I happened to come across was,
‘It is time to seek the Lord’ (Hosea 10:1212Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. (Hosea 10:12)) and then I read about little Samuel and I noticed that he was listening to the Lord, so that when he was called he heard Him speak, and came to Him at once. And later on another text I read was in the New Testament:
‘The Master is come and calleth for thee.’ John 11:2828And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. (John 11:28). So I just thought I ought to come, and mother prayed with me; and the next Sunday I told my teacher, and she said, ‘Thank God.’ O, Auntie, I am so happy now. I wish I had come to the Lord Jesus before; but now when He comes we shall all be ready.”
How good it is to hear and come at once when God calls us. I came when young myself, and I know it is good to trust and serve the Lord.
ML 11/25/1945