I cannot tell it in this foolish Japanese tongue, and I don’t believe I could tell it if I had your (English) tongue, nor if I had an angel’s tongue, but one poor heart (putting his hand over his own heart) can feel it all.” So said a convert when speaking of what Jesus was to him.
It is very precious to the heart that loves the Lord to hear of those in heathen lands turning to Him thus, and ending the love of Christ so sweet.
A dear old woman, when told of the Lord Jesus, said, “My soul was longing for something, and now I know what it was—it was Jesus. When I lie here alone hour after hour, I am so happy as I think of the great love of the God of all heaven and earth for a poor old woman like me, that I keep saying,
‘O God, I thank Thee!’”
A little girl had been sent to school by her father, but was forbidden ever to mention at home anything she heard from the missionaries. But the love of Jesus entered her heart, and she had not been forbidden to sing. So she sang, and her poor blind grandma heard for the first time,
“Jesus loves me! this I know, For the Bible tells me so.”
“What are you singing about, Jewel?” asked grandma.
“O! you know, grandma, I cannot talk, for I promised father, but it is not wrong to sing, is it?”
By and by grandma was brought to know Jesus, and even father went to the meetings with his little singer.
Now just one more. A boy this time, who went to Sunday school. You know they worship idols in Japan, and this boy had to represent his absent father at a funeral one day.
“Now worship the family gods,” said the friends.
“I cannot,” said the boy; “I worship the true God only.”
Here then, dear children, from heathen Japan, are four witnesses—a man, an old woman, a little girl, and a boy of fourteen. O, may they not rise tip in the judgment and condemn you, who, in this land of Christian light and liberty, have not yet made Christ your own!
ML 08/27/1939