A children’s meeting was being held in a little town called Maxville. The room was full of-children and they listened very quietly while the preacher told them of Jesus and His love.
“I wonder,” he said at the close of the talk, “how many children in this room will trust Jesus, and believe in Him as their Saviour?”
Many little hands were lifted, and after a few more words with them, and prayer, the meeting was over and the children went to their homes.
Frances and Herbert hurried home and told their mother all about it. Frances was just five and her brother Herbert was nine.
“Mother,” said the little girl, as they went into the house, “Mr. Potter asked us how many would believe in Jesus, so I held up my hand.”
“Did you, dear?” said her mother, “and what about you, Herbert, did you hold up your hand too?”
“No, Mother.”
“Why not, my boy?”
“But, Mother, I thought he meant who would trust Jesus for the first time tonight, and I trusted Him when I was a little boy.”
It made Mother very happy to know that both her children were trusting in the Lord Jesus. Of course we don’t get saved by simply putting up our hand in meeting, but we do get saved by taking the Lord. Jesus as our own Saviour, and when we know Him as our Saviour, we should never be ashamed to tell others that we belong to Him.
Sometime after Frances and Herbert had been at that children’s meeting their mother wrote a letter to the preacher. She told Frances that she was writing to him, and asked if she had any message. “Yes,” she said, “tell him that I am still believing.”
Sometimes boys and girls say, “Yes, I would like to be a Christian, but I am afraid I wouldn’t be able to keep on.”
Do you remember the story of the shepherd who went to seek the one sheep that was lost? When he found that lost sheep, he didn’t send it on home. He picked it up and put it on his strong shoulders and carried it all the way home.
And so, dear boy or girl, if you will take Jesus right now as your Saviour, He will take you up in His own arms and carry you all the way borne to heaven.
ML 01/29/1950