DEAR Children: I have a true story I wish to tell you about a young man who was a friend of mine. This young man had been hurt and for some weeks was unable to work. When he was able for work he could not find anything to do, so he, with a few more young fellows, proposed to join the navy. They were not able to enlist in the small town of M.——where they lived, but had to go to the large city of Chicago to enlist. Now, you will remember, my young friend had not been working for a long time and consequently had no money to pay his fare on the train, so if he were to go he must steal his ride to the city, which he managed to do, on a freight train, for about fifty miles, when the train stopped and all the young fellows got off. They then started for the front part of the train, except this young man who went to the rear end, and this was the last his companions saw of him. The next morning the railroad men found him eighty-five feet below the bridge with his neck and back broken. Thus he passed into eternity—unsaved!
My dear little reader, you will have to pass into eternity, perhaps very soon; how is it with you? Are you, like this young man, unsaved, or are you saved by believing on the Lord Jesus as your Saviour? If so, when you die you will go to be with the blessed Lord Jesus who loved you and gave Himself to die for you, my little one, that He might have you with Him in glory.
ML 06/25/1899