SOME years ago we knew a young girl who, we are glad to say, used to go to Sunday school. It was the teacher’s custom to get all her class to learn a text in the week, and repeat it to her on the next Lord’s day. By that means this young girl learned a great many portions of Scripture by heart.
A time came when she was taken very ill, and had to keep her bed; in fact, she did not get well again, but after a rather long illness the Lord took her to Himself.
The reason why we write about her is this. As she became very weak, and unable even to read for herself, she used to lie and think of the beautiful words of Scripture which she had committed to memory. The Lord spoke to her soul in this way, and she was saved through true faith in Him who had died for her.
One day she said to her mother, “O! mother, I am so thankful I learned so much of God’s Word when I was well; for now I can think upon it, although I am too weak to read; and it makes me so happy.”
Let us all imitate this young girl, and so make God’s blessed Word our “hidden treasure,” and if there should be any one of you who has not believed in the Lord Jesus before, may you come to Him now, and thus belong to His “hidden treasure.”
ML 04/21/1918