A GOOD many years ago there lived a little girl whom we will call Lily. She was only a tiny child at the time of which I am going to tell you, but she was a bright, light-hearted little creature, busy with her simple lessons and merry in her childish play, just the same as you children are.
One night, long after little Lily was safely tucked away in bed, she tossed and turned, and the sleep that generally came to the blue eyes almost as soon as the sunny head touched the pillow seemed to be far away, for a very big thought had taken possession of the little heart, and troubled the gay spirits of our small friend. Softly and tremblingly she kept saying it to herself, “Eternity.”
Presently the tiny white-robed figure slipped from her cozy nest, and sitting down upon the floor, she gently rocked herself to and fro, as again and again would come in a very agony of fear and wonder the mighty, terrible thought, “Eternity! What is eternity? Where will it end? Does it ever end? What is eternity?”
I am glad to tell you that for many years now the thought of eternity has had no dread at all for Lily, for she has been happy in knowing that the Lord Jesus by His death has perfectly settled the great question of sin, and given her to know that her eternity will be spent “in heaven with Jesus.”
I would like all you dear boys and girls to answer this question to yourself and to God, “Where will you spend eternity?
Which will it be for you?
“Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels,” Matt. 25:4141Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: (Matthew 25:41); or “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:2, 32In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2‑3).
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