Only One to Satisfy Us
Vacation is over, and once more our little friends will be settling down to school and lessons.
I hope you can all look back with happy feelings upon your playtime; and that you will all set to work to do your very best at school and at home; for the Bible says,
No doubt, many of you were at your Sunday school outing. I was at one too, and a good day the children had. The boys played cricket and football, the girls had their games, and both had swings until they were tired. Then after tea we all gathered together to sing a few hymns and to listen to a few words from two or three gentlemen present. It was very nice to sing and listen there in the still evening with the green fields and trees around.
The last speaker told the children that they all had two things which needed to be satisfied if they were to be truly happy.
First, that each had a conscience—a guilty, or a cleansed conscience. If their sins had not been washed away and forgiven, they had a guilty conscience, just as you have when you have disobeyed mother, and fear you will be punished. Then he urged each little hearer to go to the Lord Jesus Christ, confess their sins, and get a cleansed conscience.
Then he told them they had a heart. You know you have longings, you want something to satisfy you, and you often take your own way to get that satisfaction.
Well, the gentleman told the children that only the love of Jesus could truly, satisfy, and I want to tell you the same. You see all things here change, but Jesus, never. The little girl loved her pet lamb, but it died. She loved her little sister, but she also died.
‘O mother!” said she amid her tears, “is there anything I can love that will not die?”
Only one and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. I do hope every little reader will take Jesus’ precious blood for his conscience, and Jesus Himself for his heart.
ML 08/20/1939