A missionary in Africa told of a cannibal chief beside whose death-bed an African boy was reading selections from the gospel of John. He was impressed by the very frequent recurrence of the words, "Verily, verily."
"What do they mean?" he asked.
"They mean certainly, certainly."
"Then," exclaimed the dying man, with a sigh of infinite relief, "they shall be my pillow. I rest on them!"
"Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that heareth My word,
And believeth on Him that sent Me,
Hath everlasting life,
And shall not come into condemnation;
But is passed from death unto life."
"Verily, verily, I say unto you,"
"Verily, verily," message ever new!
"He that believeth on the Son," 'tis true!