It was the night of the Sunday school treat and everyone present had had a happy time. A Christian man had given a little message to the children telling them of something better than a Sunday school treat — of the great salvation God has provided for all who will come. God’s invitation is not to children only but to “Whosoever will,” and everyone had been asked to accept this wonderful invatition.
Before leaving to go home several. hymns were sung, and the rewards given to those who had come to Sunday School regularly throughout the year. After everyone had received the candy there were still some sacks left, and so the children were told that all those who would tell something they had learned during the year would receive another sack of candy.
There were only two who would do this, much to the disappointment of the teachers. When they had been dismissed. Mr. Symms was walking home with one of the little boys, named. Richie, and he asked him if he had not learned anything in Sunday school all year, seeing he had not spoken up at the treat.
“Yes,” said Richie, “I learned I was a sinner.”
Mr. Symms then asked him why he had not raised his hand and told this at the meeting.
“I was afraid they would laugh at me,” he said.
Ricbie’s reply makes me think of a verse in Prov. 29:25 which says, “The fear of man bringeth a snare,” And yet how many boys and girls are just like Richie. They are afraid to confess the name of the Lord Jesus lest their friends should laugh. Dear reader, is this the case with you? God has told us in His Word that the very first class to be put into the lake of fire are “the fearful.” Rev. 21:8. Do not he afraid of the world’s laugh, for they once laughed at the blessed Saviour Himself.
“For whosoever shall he ashamed of Me and of My Words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when. He shall come in His own glory, and in. His Father’s, and of the holy angels.” Luke 9:26.
ML 12/16/1951