A YOUNG boy, nine years old, wrote from his school to let me know that during some children’s meetings I had held in the town where he lived, he had given his heart to the Lord Jesus Christ. He reminded me of some services held in this same town nearly four years before, adding: “That was the first time I really and soberly thought about my soul.”
So that this little boy was not quite six years of age when he began to think really and soberly about his soul!
I remember well my first visit to that town, and the deep impression made by God’s Spirit upon the heart of that little child less than six years old. Years had passed away, when I had the joy of receiving a letter from him, dated from a distant land, where he was serving the Lord Jesus.
Let none who read this little per imagine that a child six years old is too young “to think really and soberly” about his soul’s salvation. Over the years, I have known very many, quite as young, who it appears intelligently received Christ as their own precious Saviour. In Matthew 18:66But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:6), our Lord speaks of “little ones which believe in Me.” He never told little children to wait till they grew big before they could be saved; but He does tell big people that they must become as little children if they will receive His salvation (read Mark 10: 13-16; and Matthew 18:33And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3)).
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