Mrs. True was invited to attend the Sunday school picnic. She came, and enjoyed watching the games and having supper under the trees. Before returning home, each of the parents was given a paper, bearing three questions with answers from the Scriptures, which the children themselves had searched and copied out.
Mrs. True read her paper over many times, and this is what it said.
Question 1. Is it necessary to be born again, in order to enter the kingdom of God?
Question 2. How can your sins be washed away?
Answer: “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1: 7.
Question 3. Is the Lord Jesus coming from heaven to gather to Himself all believing ones, whether living or dead?
Not long after this, a messenger came to our Sunday school just as the classes were beginning, to ask one of the teachers to come and see Mrs. True, who was very ill. The teacher went at once, while his fellow-workers joined in prayer that the dear woman might be saved.
The young man found her crying to God for the new birth, of which she had read on the school paper. He longed that she should cease calling, and just accept what God so freely offered her. So he opened his Bible, and read to her the same words as were on the paper which she had so often read, with the assurance that it was God’s word, and God’s way of salvation. Then he prayed with her, and soon all the distress and entreaty left her face and voice. “I have come to Him,” she said, “and He has received me. My sins are all forgiven.” Then, turning to her husband, she earnestly begged him to come to Christ also.
She was filled with joy and peace in believing, and her last hours were very happy ones, before she fell asleep in Jesus. Will your dying hour be filled with the same joy?
And what of the children who read this story? Could you answer those three questions, and do you believe it because “God says so?”
ML 05/02/1954