IT was a warm summer’s day, all around looking bright and full of life, but little Jessie lay pale and still on a bed of much suffering, waiting for the doctor to pay his usual visit, for he was so kind and gentle to her, she had grown very fond of him.
One day the doctor came and found his little patient much worse. He had said good bye, and his hand was on the door, when something within seemed to say,
“Go back, and tell her of Christ.” He returned to the bedside of the little child, and said,
“Jessie, do you know the Lord?” she fixed her dark eyes on him, but said nothing. He went on,
“Jessie, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin; Jessie, the blood leaves none behind; Jessie, Christ can save you, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” The young child eagerly drank in all he said, but still remained silent.
The doctor left her. After a few hours he returned to see little Jessie; as soon as he entered her room she called him, put her little arms around his neck, and whispered in his ear these words.
“I believe the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin, and there is nothing left behind.”
Her whole face was radiant with joy, and in a few more hours she was with the Lord.
Little reader, do you know “what the blood of Christ can do?” Let me tell
you, if you do not. It can cleanse you from all sin, “and there is nothing left behind.”
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou,” like little Jessie, “shalt be saved.”
ML 03/12/1922