At a large meeting where many Sunday school children were present, a gentleman got up on the platform to tell about two small boys he had known years before, and also about a young girl he had learned to know afterward.
These two boys, Jack and Phil, were one day quarreling and fighting in the street. A young girl, Wendy Brown, happened along just at the time, and seeing the boys fighting, ventured to speak to them and tell them how naughty it was to quarrel and fight like that.
The boys felt rather ashamed at being spoken to by a girl, but before they ran off, Wendy got them to promise that they would come to the Sunday school where she attended. They both came, and continued to attend regularly. In time both boys confessed the Lord as their Saviour, and later both went to serve the Lord in the gospel in foreign fields.
“Now,” asked the gentleman, “would any of you like to see the boy named Jack?”
“Yes!” shouted the children all at once.
“Jack,” called out the speaker, looking across the audience, “will you please stand up?” Up stood the missionary who smiled upon the children and said, “I am Jack.”
“Now, would any of you like to see the other boy, Phil?”
Again the children shouted, “Yes!”
“Well,” he said, “look at me, for I am that boy, Phil, and I too, have been a missionary many years. But let me ask you one more question: “Would any of you like to see Wendy Brown, the girl who stopped those two naughty boys from fighting that day?”
Again a hearty response: “Yes, sir!”
“Then look over there at that shy little lady with the black coat, for she is really Wendy Brown, only now is my wife.”
What a happy meeting of the three together after so many years! What happy meetings there will be in heaven by and by when some who have known each other in their young days find themselves together in the Father’s house of many mansions! Will you be there, dear reader?
We know there’s a bright and a glorious home
Away in the heavens high,
Where all the redeemed shall with Jesus dwell;
But will you be there? and I?
If you take the loving Saviour now
Who for sinners once did die,
When He gathers His own in that bright home,
Then you’ll be there, and I.
ML-01/07/1979