IT WAS at a large gathering of Sunday School children, and a missionary present mounted the platform to tell them a story of two little boys he had known years bore. He also told them about a little girl he had afterward learned to know.
Jim and Tom were one day quarreling and fighting in the street. A young girl, named Mary Wood, happened along at the time, and seeing the boys fighting, she ventured to speak to them and tell them how wrong it was to fight like that.
Ashamed at being spoken to by a girl, both boys ran off, but not before Mary had got from them a promise that they would come to the Sunday School which she attended.
The boys were as good as their word and both showed up at Sunday School. It was the beginning of a blessing from the Lord for they continued to come, and by and by both came to trust Him as their Saviour. Mary too also was saved, so all three grew up to be Christians.
“Now,” asked the missionary, “would any of you like to see the boy Jim I was telling you about?”
“Yes, sir; yes, sir!” they all shouted.
“Jim, will you please stand up?” asked the speaker, addressing someone in the crowd.
Immediately another missionary stood up, and smiling upon the children, he said, “I am Jim.”
“Now, would any of you like to see Tom, the other boy?” asked the speaker.
“Yes, sir; yes, sir!” all chorused again.
“Well,” he said, “just look at me, for I’m that boy Tom. I too have been a missionary for many years.
“Now let me ask, would any of you here like to see little Mary Wood, who stopped these naughty boys from fighting?”
Again there was a hearty response: “Yes, sir; yes, sir!”
“Look, then, at the little lady in the black dress near the window. She used to be Mary Wood, but now she is my wife.”
What a happy meeting that was! And O what happiness God has in store for those who trust His dear Son as their Saviour and seek to follow Him. May the Lord lead many of you dear boys and girls who read these lines to trust Him while you are still young. Then set out to follow Him in that path of service and love to Him and others, that He has for you to walk in.
ML-11/07/1971