I am not a boy any longer, but thought you might like to hear the story of how the Lord saved me when I was just fourteen years old.
I was working as a message boy in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and I knew almost nothing about God or the Lord Jesus Christ. It was New Year’s eve, and I wandered about, looking for something to make me happy. A man invited me into a large Hall, where a free supper was being given to many hungry boys and men. Some of them were very noisy, and tried to disturb the gathering. It was a new thing to me to be given a free suppper, and a good supper it was too, and then afterward something better still was offered to us.
One of the men who had enjoyed the supper stood up and started to sing. He was what we used to call a “chimney-sweep” and his face and clothes and hands were usually as black as soot. We could see that he had tried to clean up a bit, but I guess he didn’t have a mirror, for their was still plenty of black on his face. This is what he sang, “Oh, precious is the flow,
That makes me white as snow!
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
Then, with a very happy smile, he told of how he had gone far in sin, but that the Lord had saved him and washed his sinful heart clean and white in His precious blood.
“Now,” he said, “that is the black and white of it. Black as soot I was in sin: white as snow I am in Christ.”
The meeting closed, the boys and men walked out to their sad life on the streets. But I learned that night the way of life, through trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ and His precious blood, and I am now whiter than snow—saved by His precious blood.
“The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1: 7.
ML 07/15/1951