As I was walking down the street one day I met a little girl who was crying and saying “I want my Mamma, I want my Mamma.” I stopped and asked her what her name was. She said “My name is Ruthie and I want my Mamma.”
I took her up in my arms and said— “come and I will find your Mamma for you.” She stopped crying and felt quite satisfied to leave it all with me, so I found her mamma for her. Little Ruth was lost.
She had wandered away from her Mamma who had taken her downtown with her to do some shopping. If you will open your bible and read the first part of the 15th chapter of Luke you will see there was a little sheep that was lost, just like little Ruth. The Shepherd went after the lost sheep and sought for it until He found it, and then He took it up in His arms just like I took up little Ruth and carried it home on His shoulders. The sheep could not find its way back and Ruth could not find her Mamma. Can you tell me, children, who the lost sheep represents? It is a picture of every little girl and boy who is yet unsaved. All of us are lost by nature and can do nothing to save ourselves, so Jesus came down to seek and to save that which was lost. Little Ruth felt she was lost and as soon as I told her I would take her to her Mamma she felt quite happy because she believed me. So if you dear children know and feel that you are lost, if you will just tell Jesus about it and believe on Him as your own Saviour He will save you and by and by He will take you to be with Him forever.
May every little girl and boy who reads this paper believe on Jesus now.
ML 05/07/1899