COLONEL ALLEN a noted infidel, had a favorite daughter on a dying bed. Being sent for to the bedside, she said to him. “Father! I feel that my end is drawing near. Tell me, am I to believe what you have taught me or what I have learned from my mother?” Her mother was a Christian, and had instilled the truths of salvation into the mind of her child.
The father paused, fixed his eyes on his child, his frame was convulsed with the struggle between pride and affection, truth and human reason. Presently, with quivering lips, he exclaimed, “Believe, my child, what your mother has taught you”.
All the accurately-argued sophistries of human imagination fail when brought to the realities of death and the great hereafter. Much as giant intellects would like to triumph over God, they have to bow before The Great I AM.
“He that believeth not, is condemned already.” “He that believeth on the Son HAT everlasting life.” John 3:18-36.
ML 12/08/1912