While little Mabel was spending her holidays from school at the seaside, her mamma asked her to practice writing by finding and copying something from a book. These were the beautiful words she copied,
Then she took it to her mamma. to look it over, who said it was nicely written, and that she was very pleased with her choice of such beautiful words. While mamma was saying this, the postman came, so mamma showed Mabel’s writing to him. The postman then said to Mabel, “Why, those are the words of Jesus, and your name is there.”
But Mabel could not understand. She had copied the verse out of the Bible, and did not think her name could be there. So the postman explained that it was the word “whosoever,” which was his name, and Mabel’s name, and everybody else’s name in this world.
Will my little readers read the verse again with the postman’s explanation printed in the place of the word “whosoever.”
“God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that (you, or I, or anybody else) who believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Won’t you believe on Him right now?
ML 04/07/1940