We have in our Sunday school a girl of ten, who is a wonder unto many. She is always so happy. I never yet saw her bright face clouded with a frown. She became a real follower of Christ at the age of six years. There is not a doubt of Annie’s conversion, her bright life would put many an Older Christian to shame. She has two sisters and a brother, all younger, and to them she is as a mother. She has a smile for all the school children, and although, as some think, her lot is hard, for she is virtually her father’s little housekeeper, Annie is happy all the days of the year. She is a true pattern of what the grace of God can do for and in a child of ten years.
If you would share the same joy, and have a life of brightness and usefulness, you may have it where she got hers—that is, by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ with your heart, and confessing Him with your mouth to others (Rom. 10:99That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9)). Then day by day enjoying His love, and walking in the paths of His holy Word, you will know what it is to be kept m “perfect peace” and “always rejoicing.”
There are boys and girls at school of all ages who have this joy, and it may be yours today, “Rejoice in the Lord away and again I say, Rejoice.” Phil. 4:44Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. (Philippians 4:4).
ML 07/07/1940