IT was a happy time for Walter, when his Doctor said to him,
“Walter, what should you say if I were to tell you God is going to take you home soon?” Brightly, with a smile, he answered,
“I shall say, ‘Thank God;’ not that I have had a bit too much pain; not a bit.” (He had had years of suffering, and spent many months in bed.) “I was a regular heathen before I was ill; was I not mother? But I have often thanked God for making me ill, and sending a Christian Doctor; And now I am quite prepared to go. I long to see Jesus, and be with Him.”
Soon after, Walter said: “Call all in the house to hear the good news. I wish to tell them this is the happiest day of my life: I am soon going home.”
Walter lived some days after this, suffering very great pain, but always bright and during his last hours of suffering, he was able to say, “I can trust Him to the end.”
Walter was eighteen years old when he died. He had not been brought up, as some of my readers have been, in Christian surroundings, but the Good Shepherd found him where he was, and put him on His shoulders, and carried him home. Do you know the Good Shepherd who gave His life for the sheep? And, if told you were soon to be with Him forever, could you say, “This is the happiest day of my life?”
ML 06/09/1918