SINCE I was a girl of ten, I have thought of eternity. My first awakening to the great question of where I would spend it, was while at school.
I had been taught that salvation was to be obtained by prayer and diligent attendance at the church and the sacraments.
I went to act as “mother” ill an orphan home, and there I found a new doctrine had been taught. It was this: That a sinner could be saved at once and forever, without works, by looking to Jesus Christ alone.
Two of the helpers in my “cottage” were themselves happy in the assurance of their salvation. How I longed to be sure of mine. I was looking within, expecting some change, or some feeling to assure me I was saved. But it never came.
“Look unto Me and be ye saved” Isaiah 45:22,22Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:22) was the message that gave me light. I did look away from my good deeds and my had deeds to Jesus, and He saved me.”
ML 10/10/1937