TWO boys were lying side by side in a hospital, a visitor asked one of them, “Are you, saved?” he answered, that he hoped someday he should be. Then turning to the other bed, the visitor repeated the question: the boy lying there, with a bright look and voice, replied—
“I came to Jesus as I was—
Weary and worn and sad—
I found in Him a resting-place,
And He has made me glad.”
Is yours a hope to be saved, dear reader? Are you quite close to Christ, or is there a break between Christ and your soul? Is the world between you and Him? Or are you like the boy—the second spoken to—who came to Jesus, the living Saviour, just as he was? He had proved that His word is true, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.”
O, try that selfsame love. You shall prove its sweetness in your own soul. Keep not back from Jesus. Your happiness for eternity depends upon your coming to Him, of whom, in pain, and upon the bed of sickness, the young believer said,
“He hath made me glad.”
ML 03/17/1918