LITTLE Emmie was left in a room for a few minutes with a gentleman. Wishing to entertain him in her father’s absence, she took up from the table his pocket Bible, and said, “Would you like to read a little from this—this is my father’s Book, Mr. H—. I don’t often see him reading any other.”
Emmie grew up, and at twelve years of age found the Lord Jesus as her own Saviour; and then the Bible became her Book, as it had been her father’s. From it she gained the guidance and direction she needed day by day. By it her heart was cheered in trouble, and her sorrow turned to joy. Through it she grew in grace, and in the knowledge of her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and when, as years passed on, she was to leave her earthly home, she said to her husband, “I’m going to my heavenly home now. I shall soon see Jesus. I have loved Him nearly all my life; now I am going to be forever with Him.”
Can you say, “It is my Book too—the Book of books to me”? Treasure its words and precepts more and more. Remember the words of the aged apostle Paul to his beloved child, Timothy, “From a child thou hast known the Holy
ML 01/27/1918