ALLIE was a bright little girl of about eight years of age, whose parents, though very kind to her, did not know Jesus as their own personal Saviour. But Allie had learned to trust in Him, how, I do not know. It may have been at the Sunday-school, or it may have been through reading of the conversion of other little children.
Allie was taken ill, and, while lying upon her bed, she would oftentimes speak of seeing a beautiful man, who, I suppose, was Jesus.
Sometimes she would ask her mother to pray, and her mother would kneel down by her bedside, and the little girl would pray, and her mother would follow her words.
One day, during her illness, she waved her hand out over the bed, and said, “Get away, Satan; get behind me. No hell for me―heaven for me.”
A day or two before she left this world, she called her father and mother to her bedside, and asked them what their banner was, for, said she, “My banner is white, and I am going to be with Jesus.” And then she said only those with the white banner could go where she was going.
Through little Allie’s end the mother was brought to the Lord Jesus, and now her banner, too, is white, and she will join Allie in you bright world of light.
My dear young readers, it is so sweet to be prepared to meet God while young. Jesus is willing to be your Saviour, and He will be your Friend. Tell Him all your joys and little troubles; He will listen to you, for He loves children. When a friend loves us he wishes us to put confidence in him. Trust in the Lord while you are young, and, by and by, you shall join little Allie in the happy land.
K. H.