IN a poor district in one of the big cities where many Jewish families lived, Isaac and Aaron lived with their parents. The boys were very industrious, and helped their parents who were very poor.
Not far from where they lived there was a room to which a number of the Jewish children went on Sunday afternoons. Here they had hot drinks and buns served them, followed by a gospel address. Now you may know that most Jews today, just like their forefathers, do not believe in Jesus Christ as the true Messiah, or the Saviour, and are much opposed to their children going anywhere to hear about Him. However, the parents of these boys were so poor that they were glad for their sons to go where they got something to eat, and it was only after Isaac and Aaron confessed the Lord Jesus as their Saviour, that the trouble began.
The Jewish neighbors round about hearing of it, came in crowds to the house, and demanded that the boys be punished. Their New Testaments were taken from them, and they were told never to go back to the Sunday school room again. But Christ was in their hearts, and they would not deny His name, so in order to escape terrible persecution, they ran away. A kind Christian man who served the Lord in looking after the poor boys and girls, found Aaron and Isaac huddled in a corner, cold and hungry.
He took them to a place where they were cared for, and there they learned to read, and after that they learned a trade. Both are now bright followers of the Lord, seeking to lead other Jewish boys to the Saviour.
Wouldn’t you like to be happy too in serving the Lord Jesus, dear reader? If you take Him as your Saviour, He will wash your sins away, and will use you in blessing others.
ML-08/02/1964