I KNEW a little girl, whom the Lord Jesus took away from this world to be with Himself, when she was about four years old. Though she was so young, she showed that she knew in her heart that Jesus died for her. This was seen in some of her little ways, and told in many of her simple wards. I am not, however, going to tell you more about these. There is only one thing which I now want to make known to you respecting her.
A few months before this dear child fell asleep in Jesus, she said to a kind friend who used to take care of her, “I’m going soon to be with Jesus; and I shall ride upon a white pony.” Her friend told her that this was a strange thing to say, and asked her what she meant by it. After some enquiry, she found out the child’s meaning. Her friends, being believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, loved the Word of God, and a chapter of it used to be read in the family every day. They had lately been reading in the book of Revelation, and the child had noticed that it was said, in the nineteenth chapter, that Jesus sat upon a white horse, and that “the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.” She had heard it said that these were they who believed in Jesus; and as she knew in her heart that she was a little believer in Him, she thought that she would form one of that glorious company who should ride with Him upon white horses. But, being only a little girl; she supposed that she should not have a great horse, but a little one; and this was the way in which she got her idea that she should ride upon a white pony. Although she made a mistake, does it not show how attentively she listened to the reading of the word of God, and afterwards thought about it in her childish way?
ML 08/26/1900