I remember a man who utterly denied Christ. One night that man’s child was taken ill, and in an agony of human affection he knelt and said,
“O Lord, do not take this little child away from our home!” The Lord said to me as plain as I hear you speak,
“It is not the child I want; it is you.” There and then I gave myself to the Lord.
It pleased the Lord to take that child, but “the grief of it seemed almost as nothing compared with the glory that the Lord had put into my heart and soul.”