One day I called to see the matron at a little private orphanage. Some of the children there had been attending our gospel services. I walked up the steps, but could not see the knocker! I looked all about, and at last noticed that it was very low down near the bottom of the door. So of course I had to stoop down to knock. I asked the lady why she had the knocker in the wrong place, and she explained that some of her orphans were very small, and could not reach it if it had been put in the usual place higher up on the door.
“Oh, that is beautiful,” I said, “to think that the smallest child can reach the knocker because it is so low down!”
And, dear young friends, the knocker is very low down on God’s door of mercy, so that any little child can easily get in. Have you knocked yet? The blessed Saviour has told us, “I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.” John 10:99I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. (John 10:9).
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