ABOUT the year 377 A. D-, a little boy named Succath was born at a place called Bonavern on the banks of the Clyde, in Scotland. His father was a farmer and a simple-hearted Christian man. As Succath grew up his parents taught him from God's Word. He learned that God lived in heaven above him, and that Jesus, His Son, had left His bright home and come to this world, and died to win men's hearts for Himself, and that now He wanted Succatii to trust liinn. as his own Saviour
But sad •to say, Succath would not heed the invitation; he heard these things from his mother but they had no effect on him. He only wanted to play, to think his own thoughts, and was often very naughty. His parents were sad to see it, but day by day they taught him the Scriptures, many of which he could not help remembering, though he did not want to do so at all.
One day, when he was about sixteen years old, while playing with his sisters on the seashore, a boat full of men pulled in, and seizing hold of Succath and the girls carried them to the boat and rowed away across the sea.
The cruel man who was at the head of this mischief was an. Irish chief named O'Neale, and he returned to Ireland with the three children and sold them to his friends. Succath was sold to a farmer who made him look after his pigs.
"I was sixteen years old," he said when speaking of it later, "and knew not the true God, but in that strange land the Lord opened my eyes; and although. I had put it off so many times, I called my sins to mind and confessing my guilt sought pardon and forgiveness. He who has said, 'Him that cormeth to Me I will in no wise cast out' (John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)) saved my soul, and comforted me in my loneliness in that strange land."
After six years of this life, Succath managed to get away to France, where he found his parents. It was a joy to be with them again, but he soon returned to Ireland, where he stayed for thirty years spreading the good news of God's full and free salvation.
Messages of the Love of God 2/10/1952