A LITTLE seven-year-old girl came to her mamma one morning, and said, “Mamma, would you like to see what I have written? I copied it out of your book.”
Mamma took the paper, and this is what she found: “Three things well worth knowing. I am seven years old. I have learned three things worth learning.
“The first, I can do nothing towards my own salvation.
“The second, God does not want me to do anything.
“The third, that Christ has done it all, and all I have to do is to take it.”
When mamma went to her book to see what her little girl had copied from, she found it said, “An old man once got up in a meeting, and said, ‘I’ve been forty-two years learning three things’”; and these were the three things which this little girl of seven years had learned.
Has my little reader learned these three things yet? How true that little hymn is which says,
“Nothing, either great or small,
Nothing, sinner, no—
Jesus did it, did it all,
Long, long ago.”
Yes, Jesus
“* * * knew how wicked men had been—And knew that God must punish sin, So out of pity Jesus said,
‘I’ll bear the punishment instead.’”
If you have not thanked Jesus, dear little reader, for dying for you, then thank Him now.
ML 10/21/1917