CAN you imagine a city built on little islands, and having streets of water? That is the kind of city we have in our picture—the narrow strip of water you see, is called a canal, and there are one hundred and fifty canals like this in the city, and the people have to use boats on these canals to go from one building to another, or one of the many bridges. There are over three hundred bridges there.
This city is called Venice, and is noted for its beauty; it has wonderful buildings, and grand works of art. This city is far from us—away across the ocean on the coast of Italy. Do you ever expect to see it?
There is a place, however, far, far more wonderful in beauty, than this city of Venice, and, dear children, every one of you may go there some day, if you just will. Do you know where this place is? There is only one way of getting there. Look in your Bibles at John 14:2,2In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2) Jesus said,
“I go to prepare a place for you,” and that place is in heaven. Jesus said,
“In My Father’s house are many mansions,” but you can never get to those beautiful mansions, unless you find Him as your Saviour now, while you are down here. He said again, in verse six,
“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” So, believing in Jesus now, is the only way to get to that beautiful place, where all children want to go.
But you would be very, very unhappy there, if you had not learned to know the Lord Jesus while on earth, and had not been cleansed from your sins. People only will be there who can say that they were lost, and then were “redeemed with the precious blood of Christ.”
ML 01/24/1937