I had been troubled about my soul for some time, when I was a girl in the Sunday school. I seldom lay down at night, without thinking of the great eternity beyond.
I went for a few weeks to live with an uncle in the country. While there, I met with a farmer’s daughter, a bright, cheerful girl, who invited me to stay with her for a few days. I found she did not care for worldly pleasures, or to read novels, and I said, “I wonder how you put in the winter up here; you must be very lonely.” Laughing, she replied, “O no, I am never lonely. I never know what it is to be without company, or without plenty of happy work.”
I wondered, and asked if she could give me a recipe for cheerfulness, for unless I was in company, I felt miserable.
“Well” she said, “I can well understand that, for I once was exactly the same, and tried everything I could think of to make myself happy, but found no relief. One day, sitting in my room, I came across a booklet, the title of which was,
“This is the very thing I want.”
It was the story of an Indian who had tried many pilgrimages and penances to get rid of a burden on his conscience, but all in vain. One day he heard a missionary preach the Gospel from the words, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).
“This is what I want” said the troubled man, and going to the missionary he heard more of Christ and His work on the cross to save lost sinners, and he believed in Him.
After reading the story, I said to myself, “and this is just what I want too. Well I cast myself on the Lord Jesus, receiving Him as my Saviour, and I have been saved and satisfied ever since.”
Reader, I commend Christ to you. Trust in Him and He will save you, too.
ML 03/08/1931