A LITTLE girl was one day playing in a pretty garden, picking the fruit and flowers, and merrily enjoying the moments as they flew. All at once she ran away from her companions, and, hurrying along, was soon in a position of great danger. The garden was at the top of a cliff, at whose foot the deep sea lay, and in one part of the garden there was neither wall, hedge, nor railing at the side that was nearest to the cliff. The child ran on, not knowing what was before her, and reaching the edge of the terrible spot, would have been dashed over on the rocks below, and killed, had not one of her friends pursued her and grasped her firmly with one hand. By the mercy of God her life was thus saved, but the scene was never forgotten.
Dear young reader, every week, every day is gliding rapidly away. Time is flying, and every hour you are growing older. You are going on, on, on; let me ask you where? Are you rushing on, without seeking to know where your steps may lead you? Let me tell you that you are going either to heaven or to hell. Your sinful thoughts and words are more in number than the stars in the sky; and unless you have already come to Jesus, and received the pardon of your sins, you are in awful danger.
“But, if it be so, how can I get rid of sin?” you may ask; “for I have heard that God will never admit sinners into heaven.” Sin can be got rid of only through Jesus. God, full of tender love and pity for lost, perishing souls, sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross. Listen now to His words, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life;” and now every one who believes in Him is saved. This is a simple, but a most blessed truth.
ML-07/11/1920