SUSIE is a bright little girl of ten years in my Sunday school class. She is a farmer’s daughter, living a few miles out of town, but she is most regular in attendance at Sunday school. For some time I had thought that Susie was a believer in the Lord Jesus, but she was so very shy, and when I asked her, she hung her head in silence.
One afternoon at the close of Sunday school, I found a New Testament lying on one of the seats. Lifting it up, I found on the fly leaf Susie’s name, and under it, the following line written by her own hand, “Born again, the 20th of May.” How glad I was as I read that, and I wondered why Susie had not told me before.
As I stood with the book in my hand, Susie entered the room. She had missed her Testament and had come back for it. When she saw the book in my hand, she blushed. I said to her, “Come, Susie, come and tell me what happened on the 20th of May.” The dear child told me how she was converted, and added, “I didn’t like to tell you at first, teacher, for I fear it was not real, and then I was ashamed. But now I love the Lord Jesus, and I know that I am saved.”
“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” 1 John 5:13.
ML-08/09/1964