ONE Sunday afternoon when I was a boy, I was in our Sunday school class as usual, but our teacher did not show up. After the usual singing of the hymns and prayer, we all went to our own class rooms, but we boys kept very quiet so no one would notice that we were without a teacher.
However, time began to drag heavily, and Satan, who finds plenty of mischief for “idle hands” to do, soon had it all his own way.
To while away the time, one boy proposed that we should have a mock “revival” meeting. Accordingly one boy, Tom, kneeled down, and pretended to be crying to the Lord for mercy. Amid much laughter from the rest, Fred, another boy, kept telling him to look to Jesus. This dreadful mockery went on for some time.
I was not a Christian at that time, but I had godly Christian parents, and I knew enough to know that this awful scene was displeasing to God. I longed that someone would open the door and stop it: but I did not have the courage to speak up and seek to turn my fellow-classmates from carrying on.
I do not know if Tom, the ringleader of this affair, is dead or alive now, nor do I know if he ever left off to mock. But as for Fred, the other boy, I am so very pleased to tell you that not so long after this event, instead of only pretending to pray, he really did seek and obtain mercy of the Lord.
Poor Fred took sick one day and never recovered. As he died he looked up and clapped his hands saving —
O how happy we shall be,
For our Saviour we shall see
Exalted on His throne.
The Lord in grace saved the very boy who not long before had mocked Him.
Dear readers, “Be not mockers,” but rather “Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near.” Isa. 55:66Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: (Isaiah 55:6). He will answer He will save you.
ML-04/23/1972