EDITH was a much-loved daughter of her parents. Her mother was a devoted Christian, and as such sought to train her child for God.
Edith, who was never strong, was very affectionate and amiable, and those who knew her best loved her most. She attended her Sunday-school until within a week of her departure to be with Christ which is far better.
The mother watched by her darling as she lay with a happy smile upon her face, gazing upwards.
“She can evidently see something more than we can,” said a friend who stood by the bedside. At length, the dear child uttered one sentence, the last she ever spoke on earth, and they are words we would like to spread the wide world over.
“Jesus paid it all!” And then she went to behold the One who had died for her, and paid the mighty debt she owed to God for the many times she had sinned against Him.
Edith was only a little girl of nine years of age, and, in this world, was of very small account, but she knew the blessed truth, that “Jesus paid it all.”
The eyes of many dear children will fall upon this page. Do you know for yourselves the truth that dear Edith uttered?
“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” and this “all” includes you! Are you aware that you have incurred a debt you can never repay, for you have nothing, and can do nothing to pay the holy God? You have sinned against God many times. Now God is just, and can in no wise clear the guilty. He has said,
“The soul that sinneth it shall die.” But He sent His own dear Son to die instead of us. He bore our sins, He suffered on the cross, that we may not suffer eternally. He paid all the debt we owe to God; and of the work of our salvation, He said, “It is finished.”
“Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.”
ML 04/20/1924