A messenger came to a Sunday school superintendent and said,
“Hasten as quickly as you can, there’s a boy in a garret wanting to see you. He is dying.”
The superintendent hastened to the place, and found, lying on a heap of straw, a boy who had been crushed by a cart.
As he entered, the boy quickly said, “Didn’t I hear you say the other Sunday, ‘that whomsoever a fellow comes to Jesus, he would be saved’?”
“Yes,” replied the visitor, “I said something like that.”
“Well,” said the boy, “then I am saved. I have been a bad boy, but I’ve been thinking about that, and I have taken God at His word, so I’m saved.”
He did not quote the words exactly, but he had grasped the meaning of them, and believed them too.
ML 05/08/1938