Queen Victoria was in the habit of visiting a number of her old servants to whom she had given little homes on her estate. She was very fond of one old lady who had given her long and faithful service in years gone by. She would go and sit with her and while knitting, they would talk together.
On one occasion, a niece of the old servant stepped in to see her aunt. After awhile, the Queen read the 14th chapter of John’s Gospel. Then closing the Bible, the Queen asked the young girl, “My child, are you a Christian?”
“I certainly am, your Majesty,” was the answer.
“How do you know you are?” continued the Queen.
“Well, I was baptized, then confirmed.”
“Good! Now let us pray together,” said the Queen, so she prayed, “Please, Lord, open the eyes of this young girl so that she may learn that she cannot be a child of Thine until her heart is changed. Help her to see her state of sinfulness before Thee. Direct her gaze toward the cross of Christ, so that she may believe that He gave Himself for her, and may she learn that no external religious practice can save her soul.”
The young girl took Christ as her Saviour, and the great joy of her life was to tell others of her own salvation. She would say, “I have often sung ‘God save the Queen,’ but I never thought that the Queen herself would ask God to save me!”
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself: God’s house is filling fast—“Yet there is room!” Some guest will be the last-“Yet there is room!”
ML-12/21/1969