Two girls were cleaning their door-step one morning, as a farmer’s wife passed. Taking a step back, she said,
“I see you are both busy, and I do not wish to detain you, but thought I might tell you of a Bible-class for young women at our farm on Sunday afternoons. If you are not engaged at that hour, I shall be glad to see you both there.”
The two girls were glad to accept the invitation, and the following Sunday they were in the circle of girls gathered to hear the Gospel. it was all new to them, and the Spirit of God used the word spoken to show them their sinful state.
Week after week they came, and as the Word searched them, the burden of sin, the conscious weight of it, increased, and the fear of coming judgment with it. One Sunday afternoon, Jeannie, the elder of the two, waited after the others had gone, and said to her teacher,
“My burden is gone now, Mrs. S—; I see Jesus has borne it away.”
Next week, Jeannie’s companion was saved, and both were exceedingly happy.
How delightful it was, to see the two girls tripping along the country road, Bible in hand, to town, making the woods echo with their song to Immanuel’s praise.
And now, though sundered by oceans from each other, they keep up a constant correspondence, seeking to help each other on along the heavenward way.
The same Gospel that removed Jeannie’s fears is within your reach, reader, today.
ML 05/26/1940