Little Eleanor was about eight years old. One day as she was walking home from Sunday school with a boy about her own age, he asked, “Eleanor, are you saved?”
“I don’t know,” she answered slowly.
“Why, that’s funny,” he said, “for you know it says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou SHALT be saved.”
They walked on in silence, but when Eleanor reached home she went straight to her mother, saying, “Mother, please come and pray with me — I want to be saved.”
“No,” answered her mother, “you just go into the bedroom by yourself and tell the Lord Jesus what you’ve told me.”
The little girl did so, and shutting the door, her mother knelt down it another room, asking the Lord that Eleanor might truly see herself as a lost sinner and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour. In a short time Eleanor came out with a shining face, “Mother, I’m saved now!” she said, and how her heart overflowed with praise to God that another of her dear children was also a child of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
ML 07/16/1961