I was riding in a train the other day, and when we stopped at a certain station, a little girl got in. She seemed quite sure that she was right, for I did not see her ask anybody whether the train was the one she wanted or not. But just as we were starting again, she leaned over to me, and asked if the train went to a station that she named.
Poor little girl! she could hardly keep the tears back when. I told her that she was wrong. And it was too late to alter her mistake; she must go on. O, if she had only asked the conductor or a porter, before taking her seat! Then she would have been put right.
Children, do you know that there are thousands of people who die, and go into eternity, thinking they are certain to go to heaven, but who are wrong, after all? Is some girl or boy saying,
“I wish I knew how to be quite sure I am right, for I don’t want to make a mistake?”
Well, dear little friend, the Bible is so plain that you need not be in any doubt at all. How did the thief on the cross get right? He just owned that He was a wicked man, and that he was getting what he deserved; and then he turned to Jesus, and asked Him to remember him. Ah! this must have been the right way, for Jesus at once said,
“Verily, I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” Luke 23:43.
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14:6.
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Rom. 10:13,
“Whosoever cometh, need not delay;
Now the door is open, enter while you may;
Jesus is the true, the only Living Way;
Whosoever will may come!”
ML 08/08/1937