The Story Followed Him

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 1min

• 1 min. read • grade level: 9

Deuteronomy 11:18-20¹⁸Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. ²⁰And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: (Deuteronomy 11:18‑20); Psalm 145:4⁴One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. (Psalm 145:4); Proverbs 22:6⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

While I was at a convention in Illinois an old man past seventy years got up,and said he remembered but one thing about his father, and that one thing followed him all through life. He could not remember his death, he had no recollection of his funeral, but he recollected his father one winter night taking a little chip, and with his pocket-knife whittling out a little cross, and with the tears in his eyes he held up that cross, telling how God in His infinite love sent His Son down here to redeem us, and how He had died on the cross for us. The story of the cross followed him through life; and if we tell children these truths, they will never forget them.

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