A LITTLE girl called Jane got to know that “forgiveness of sins” was for every one that believeth. She believed what God said about Jesus Christ, and was quite a different child from what she used to be. She was a Christian at home, in the school, and when playing among her school-fellows.
One day she said to her mother, “Mother, I am quite sure that Emma is converted, that she loves the Saviour.”
“How do you. know that, my child?” said her mother.
“Why, mother, because she plays just like a Christian; I am sure she loves Jesus.”
Now, it is quite to be expected that a Christian child should play and be active like other children, and have a child’s thoughts and ways; that is, as to the measure of them. But if you are very happy in the Lord Jesus do you not think it will show itself in all your ways? One of the prophets. speaking of the time when Christ is to reign over the earth, in the millennium, foretells of the boys and girls playing in the streets. No one could want to forbid play any more than work or study, only so that you play and study as a Christian, and do all things with the thought that God is looking on you with love, in His own dear Son.
ML 03/12/1922