Oh, dear soldier or sailor who is reading this Message, can you too say “I have come—.” Come to whom? Why, come to the Lord Jesus, your blessed Saviour. If you have not, He is waiting to see you come, to receive you and make you His for, ever. A dear friend of mine, a Colonel in the B.E.F., wrote to me today the following true story about a soldier who seemed anxious about his soul whilst talking to a lady—one always anxious to be made a blessing. She asked hith to come into a quiet room and pray that lovely hymn, “Just as I am without one plea, but that Thy blood, was shed for me.” “But only say,” said she, “what you feel you can truly say. When they came to the end of the verse “Oh Lamb of God I come,” he could only repeat, “Oh Lamb of God, I should like to come.”
“Can’t you come?” “No, not now,” said he. Thank God, he came in the evening to the same hut prayer-meeting, and when the hymn was, as usual prayed, the lady kneeling near him heard him say with all his heart “I come.” “Yes,” he said when she asked him, “I do,” and he spoke out bravely to the men, and told them what God had done for him—and since then he has been of great, help to other men, strengthening them in the right way. How many have been brought to know the. Lord through’ that wonderful hymn. When I was a young girl, I remember praying it to a dying woman, who was able at last to say “Oh Lamb of God I come.” Ah! reader, now is the accepted time. Come now to the Lord Jesus, Who is calling you with His tender, love, saying―
“Come unto Me.”
EMILY P. LEAKEY.