A YOUNG Japanese-American boy attended Sunday school regularly and learned many lovely Bible verses. Each week he would learn a verse from the "Messages of the Love of God" papers—just as many of our readers he would stand up and repeat it to the class.
This dear boy grew older and finally stopped attending Sunday school, and we are sorry to say, began to live a very sinful life. You see, dear boys and girls, he had only learned the verses in his head, had not believed them in his heart "But God, who is rich in mercy" had His eye on this young Japanese boy for blessing.
Several years later the young man became very ill and was told by the doctor that he would not live many months. Eternity loomed before him, and as he lay in bed he thought about the wicked life he had been living. The verses learned in Sunday school with power, and he turned the Lord Jesus and accepted as His Saviour. His life was now filled with joy and peace in believing," Romans 15:1313Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. (Romans 15:13).
He wrote to his former Sunday school teacher and told him that his sins were washed away in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus. He wrote that it was the verses he learned in the Sunday school that the Lord used to bring him to Himself. He said, "I am like the prodigal returning to the Father." He also said that he would rather die while young and go to be with Jesus than to live a long life and spend eternity in Hell, for it was on his sick bed he found Christ.
This dear young man lived a few short months, and then the Lord took him home to be with Himself. He was a bright testimony to the love and grace of the Lord Jesus to poor sinners, right to the end.
Messages of the Love of God 9/14/1952