IT was Lord’s Day evening and pleasant group were gathered round a cheerful fire. The countenances of parents and children showed that it had been a happy day.
“Come, George,” said the father, “what did you have at Sunday-school today?”
“Well, father, the teacher said one thing I would like to ask you about. Our lesson was John 3. Christ said to Nicodemus, ‘Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’”
“This is a most important subject, my boy. We cannot hear of it too often.”
“But, father, here is what the teacher said: not only, we cannot get to heaven without a new life from above, but even if we could, we would not be happy there. Now that seems very strange; I thought everybody would like to be in heaven.”
‘There shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life,’ and, my boy, remember. Jesus continued to lay before Nicodemus atonement through Himself lifted up on the cross, and God’s free love to a perishing world. Faith accepts God’s precious gift the Lord Jesus, who died for your sins. Will you take Him now as your Saviour? His blood, and that alone, will wash away your sins. Then grace will enable you to say, Heaven is my Home. You will then be happy, knowing that through Christ’s death and resurrection, you have been made fit for that Home.”
May each reader be able to sing,
“We know there’s a bright and a glorious Home,
Away in the heavens high.
Where all the redeemed shall with Jesus dwell,
But will you be there and I?
If you take the loving Saviour now,
Who for sinners once did die,
When He gathers His own in that bright Home,
Then you’ll be there and I.”
ML 09/20/1925