A group of small boys was coming home from school, when the big two-decker coach rolled into town. On the top deck sat a gentleman and as he passed the boys, he threw down some leaflets. The boys rushed to pick them up and found them to be gospel tracts.
One little fellow named Will picked up one of the leaflets and immediately he began to read aloud:
Here’s a message of love
Come down from above,
To invite little children to heaven:
In God’s blessed Book
Poor sinners may look,
And see how their sins are forgiven.
The thought of the message coming down from above, just as the leaflet fluttered down from the top of the coach, greatly impressed Will, and the Spirit of God eventually used that message of love to the eternal blessing of his soul. Not until the redeemed are all gathered home to Heaven will that unknown distributor know how that seed from the coach to bore fruit.
Years passed, and Will had grown up, but he never lost the truth that God’s message of love invited little children. His great interest was to tell the children that glorious message of God’s love in the gift of His dear Son, of the love of Jesus, Who gave Himself to die for sinners, and of His wonderful invitation: “Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the Kingdom of God.” Luke 18:1616But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. (Luke 18:16).
ML 12/22/1968