I heard a sad story of two little boys, aged nine and eleven years, who went from their homes one day and never returned. Their friends at length concluded that they had fallen into the river and were drowned. Six months afterwards their bodies were discovered by some workmen, in a closet of an empty house, the door of which had no handle inside, so they could not open it. The poor little fellows had been shut up and had died there.
How sad it was.
These verses came into my mind, “I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”
What a dreadful time this will be for all those who did not put their trust in the Lord Jesus while they had the opportunity!
But in contrast to this sad scene, we get another “small and great” in Rev. 11:1818And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. (Revelation 11:18), “That Thou shouldest give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and great.”
I wonder if those poor little fellows will be at the “great white throne,” to be judged “according to their works,” or if they will be among those who have been washed from their sins in the precious blood of Christ.
We cannot tell; but let me ask you, dear young friends, how would it be with you, were you called away suddenly?
“Oh! what a Saviour is Jesus the Lord.
Well might His name by His saints be adored!
He has redeemed them from hell by His blood,
Saved them forever and brought them
to God.”
F.
ML 03/25/1900