I HAVE just heard a brother tell a nice story that I think the readers of this little paper will be glad to hear, so I will tell it and try to show the lesson it was intended to teach.
Some time ago, in the State of Nebraska, there was a school-teacher who noticed a storm coming, and wanted to get her children safely to the nearest house. In those parts they sometimes have very heavy blizzards that last for a long time, and it is not safe to be out in them. Many who are overtaken by one of these storms are buried alive.
The way she took to keep the children together, was, to get a rope and tie them one to another and then tie them to herself. When she had done this she told them that their life was as safe as hers.
That if they perished she would. Then they all started off for the house where they would be safe from the storm, and thus escaped it.
The verse at the head of this says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.” What comforting words these are for all who have accepted the Lord Jesus as their Saviour. We can say that we have the same life that He has. We are bound up with Him in the bundle of life, and we are bound to one another as well. When the terrible blizzard of the wrath of God breaks upon this scene it can never touch those who are so close to Christ. We will be in a place where that storm will never touch. He will have us with Himself, beyond this scene altogether in the home He has prepared for those who love Him.
Oh, that all our readers were one with Christ and safe from that awful storm that is soon to break with such fury on this scene. Those who have accepted Him by faith can say, our life is as safe as His.
ML 08/10/1902