MARY put her head down on her desk at school and began to cry. Her teacher laid a loving hand on her shoulder and said softly,
"What is the trouble today, Mary?" "My little sister Rosa is dead."
"I didn't know you had a little sister."
"Yes, teacher, She was a very little girl. Only six years old."
"I hope she has gone to heaven." "Oh yes," said Mary, "we know she has."
"What makes you so sure that Rosa has gone to heaven?"
"If you had been there, you would have said so, too. The last day she lived, she just sang and sang as long as her breath lasted."
"What did she sing?"
"She sang, `I think when 1 read that sweet story of old, and then she sang, `There is a happy land.' Sometimes she would stop singing and pray out loud for father and mother and myself. She prayed that the precious blood of Jesus Christ might wash all our sins away, and she told us that she knew her sins, were all gone, and that she was going to be with Jesus."
"What Sunday school did little Rosa go to?"
"She has been sick since she was tiny, and never was able to go to any Sunday school."
"Then where did, she learn the sweet story of Jesus?"
"The little girls who live upstairs at our house used to go to Sunday school, and when they came home they always came into our room and played Sunday school with us. They taught us all the hymns they learned, and that is how my little sister learned to know and love Jesus."
Perhaps you are well and strong, and able to be at Sunday school yourself. Have you ever thanked God for this health and strength? And more important still, have you ever thanked God for the gift of Jesus?
Messages of the Love of God 8/3/1952