A preacher had been telling his hearers how much they needed to become beliers in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they might receive the salvation of their souls and eternal life as the free gift of God.
All the time of his preaching he was delighted to see the attention paid by a little girl of only six or seven years. When he had finished, he noticed she was in tears, and he made up his mind to speak to her before she left. But while he was busy with others the child had gone.
There was preaching the next evening also, and again the little girl was present. But she did not seem so interested as before, and there were no signs of tears. The preacher did not fail to speak to her at the close, and almost his first words were to ask her why she seemed so much less anxious now than on the previous night.
“O,” replied the child, “you told us last night how willing God was to give Christ and eternal life through Him, and I went to my room, and asked Him to give me Christ and eternal life; and don’t you think He would do it for a little one like me?”
“I am sure he would,” said the preacher.
“And so am I, said the little girl; “and I feel like singing now, though I felt I could do nothing but cry last night.”
ML 04/09/1939