HOW often have children who go to Sunday-school promised to do their best to bring others with them, but how easy it is to forget and not keep the promise.
A Sunday-school teacher told his class the following incident,
“Many years ago there was a boy on his way to Sunday-school, and he noticed a few ragged and dirty boys about his own age playing on the street. He begged them very earnestly to come with him to Sunday-school, but one only could be persuaded to come. He had neither jacket nor cap on. When they came to the door and saw how all within were neatly dressed, he was about to run away saying,
“I’ll not go in there, for I have not even a coat on.”
“Here is mine,” said John who was loathe to let his prize go, and quickly pulled off his coat and helped put it on his new friend. Thus both went in.
The teacher who told the story added,
“I know the little incident very well, for I was the boy who had no coat, and Dr. John Paton, the great missionary, of whom you no doubt have heard, was the boy who gave me his.”
So had this great soul-winner begun in his early boyhood days to lead souls to Christ. He sought after those who knew nothing of Christ. And you, dear believing children, may try to seek to bring other children to Sunday-school where they may learn about the Lord Jesus as their Saviour.
ML 07/12/1925