A present for you, Reggie.”
So saying, an uncle offered a shining 50 cent piece to his nephew, a bright, cheerful little fellow of four. Reggie immediately took the coin with a cheery “Thank you, uncle”; but after looking at it rather wistfully for a few moments, said in an undertone,
“Uncle.”
“What is it, dear?” asked his uncle, noticing his puzzled expression. “I was wondering if you would give me a brown one for it; then I could buy some chocolates with it,” was the little fellow’s reply.
You, dear children, who are older, may smile at Reggie’s mistake in wishing to exchange a bright new piece of silver for a paltry penny, but why was it? Surely because he was ignorant of its real value.
Likewise numbers of boys and girls, as well as those of older years, decline the better things and choose the inferior. They decline the weighty, lasting, and enduring blessings offered by the Saviour, and choose the poor, fleeting trifles of earth. Why is it so? It is surely because they are ignorant of the value of their souls, neither do they know the great unspeakable gift of God, Jesus.
Happy are the children who remember their Creator in the days of their youth; who early seek the gracious Saviour’s face; who now avail themselves of the mercy of God, for they who seek early will surely find.
ML 02/16/1936