I WANT to tell a story to you older children who know the Lord Jesus, about two boys who spoke a word for Him to a poor, needy sinner. I read the story some time ago, and I believe it is a true one.
School was out one day at 4 p. m. at a school-house in the country, and these two boys were running along the road towards home making a great deal of noise, as boys know how to do. As they were passing a house, a man came out and begged them to be quiet because his old mother was very sick in the house. They stopped at once and walked quietly along. They knew the Lord Jesus, who died for sinners, and they at once thought about her soul. Pretty soon one said to the other, “I wonder if that woman is saved? We ought to go back and tell her about the Lord.” They went back to the house, but their courage failed and they did not go in; they went away again. After a little while one of them said, “This won’t do: we must go back and tell that poor woman about the Lord Jesus.” They went back to the house again, but dared not go in. They went around the side of the house—the Lord led them—and looking through a crack between the logs, (it was a poor log house), they saw the bed, with the poor woman lying sick. One of them put his mouth to that crack, right at the head of the bed, and whispered, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” Like a voice from heaven, that mysterious whisper reached the ear and the heart of that poor, needy, dying sinner. She was not yet saved, though feeling her guilt in the prospect of soon being in eternity.
It was “a word in season.”
Now, if the Lord Jesus has saved your soul, do you not think you ought to tell some one else about the Saviour you have found? It is a great and precious salvation, and we must not keep it all to ourselves. The Lord is coming soon, and the time for people to be saved will soon be past forever. We must tell them about Jesus now.
W. D. C.
ML 07/09/1899