SOME time ago I was waiting on a railway station platform. I saw a train come in on the other side, and after it had waited a few minutes it began to move off again.
Just then I heard such a loud and pitiful cry, “Mother, mother, O! mother,” which seemed to come from some little girl.
The train was stopped, and I ran round to see what was the matter. I had often heard of people falling under trains, and being killed in a minute, and I made sure that was the case with the little girl.
“Well,” you say, “was she killed?”
No; I am happy to say it was not as bad as that. It appeared that this little girl and her mother and baby were going by the train. Well, mother and baby had just gone in, and before the little girl had time to follow, the train started, and she was left behind. And so she cried out, “Mother, mother!” until they stopped the train again.
I felt very sorry for the little girl, because it would have been very sad for her to be left in the station all by herself, and mother and baby gone.
But as I walked away I could not help thinking of the time when the Lord Jesus will come and take away all those who are ready, and leave behind all those who are not.
How very sad it will be if some little girl or boy should be left behind, and father and mother and brother and sister all taken away to be with Jesus.
Let me ask you, my little friend, should you be taken or left, if Jesus should come now?
Perhaps you say, you do not know. But I can tell you how you may know. If you believe in Jesus as your Saviour, the One who died for you because you were a sinner, and trust in His precious blood to cleanse you from all sin, then you are saved; and if He should come now, at this moment, even while you are reading this, He would surely take you with Him.
But if you do not believe in Him, and love your sins, and bad ways, you would be left behind.
O, how very sad that would be. It would be of no use to cry, “Mother, mother, father, brother, sister,” for, if they believed in Him, they would be gone in a moment.
But He does not want to leave any behind, and although you are wicked and sinful, He is willing to receive and pardon you, if you will only come as a sinner, and believe in Him and His word. And He says,
“They that were ready went in with Him to the marriage: and the door was shut.”
ML 01/25/1925