Mrs. Griffin looked at her watch. She just had time to put her two babies in their pram and hurry to the station to meet their Daddy when he arrived on the train. Little Kevin was two years old and he smiled happily as they started out. Stephen was ten months old and he was just about asleep by the time they reached the station. Mother looked down at her two boys with love and thankfulness, and thought how very glad her husband would be to see them all at the station to meet him. There was just one more minute to wait, in fact she could already see the train in the distance. The eager crowd was gathering closer, when all at once there was just a little push, and the pram went over the platform and down it fell on the tracks — right in the path of the train. Mr. Booman, the station-master saw it happen, but it was too late to stop the train. But it was not too late for Mrs. Griffin’s mother-love. In a flash she was over the platform and was tossing her two boys back up to the astonished passengers, and then scrambled back up herself, just as the train roared in and crushed the empty pram.
I am sure you would have remembered the sight for the rest of your life, if you had seen it happen. I think you know why Mrs. Griffin so bravely risked her life for those two little boys. Because she loved them! And I believe that they will be told about their mother’s brave deed when they are a little older, and they will thank her for saving their lives.
Have you ever heard the wonderful story of the love of God in sending His own dear Son into this world to save lost boys and girls? I think it is a much more wonderful story than the one I have just told you. It is all told in one wonderful verse.
I am so glad that verse is in the Bible, and that the word “whosoever” is found in it. That word means you, and it means me. It means every boy and girl who will put his trust in the Lord Jesus.
ML 06/28/1959