WHAT a number of little people there are in the world! and what a number, too, of little graves we see in the cemetery, telling us children are not too young to die!
A school-fellow of mine, a fair-haired, blue-eyed little girl named Martha, was as well as usual one Wednesday morning, and said her lessons with the rest of us. We played together, and had dinner together. In the afternoon she was taken ill, and in the night she died.
So suddenly was she taken from us!
I do not know if my school-fellow loved the Lord Jesus; but I ask, Do my little readers be Him? Are you ready if you were called away suddenly as Martha was? If you can say “Yes” with the heart, then if you were called away as suddenly as my school-fellow, it would only be “to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.” (Phil. 1:2323For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: (Philippians 1:23).)
ML 12/18/1904