Some time ago, in the Sunday school at Kent, a number of the boys gave their hearts to the Lord Jesus. Their teachers had faithfully told there again and again about the love of Jesus in coming to die for sinners, and had warned them about the awful future of boys who grew up and died without taking Jesus as their own Saviour.
When these boys at last owned themselves sinners and took Jesus as their Saviour, they began to think about their friends at school, and wished that they too might know Jesus for their own. They agreed to meet every day after school to pray for their schoolmates. Where do you suppose they held their prayer meetings? In the barn on top of the haymow.
Freddie’s father noticed these boys going into his barn every day, and he wondered what they were doing. One day he quietly went in after them and heard a low murmur of voices. It was the voices of these young lads, praying to God to convert their playmates! And God heard their prayer too, and one after another of the boys in that school bowed their knees before the Lord Jesus, confessed Him as their Saviour, and then joined in prayer for the rest.
Dear children, the same Saviour, who was so precious to these boys, is saying to you: “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37).
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Rev. 3:2020Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20).
ML 07/23/1950