I WAS saved in the Sunday school when a child, and have proved the Lord Jesus a true and faithful Saviour, Lord and Friend, for many years.
I had a godly father who set before us all our need of conversion, and told us that we were just as bad in the sight of God as the children of the drunkard. I remember well how my sister and I resented that, our proud hearts taking refuge in the fact that we were children of Christian parents.
Our teacher was speaking to us one afternoon on the children of Bethel who mocked the prophet Elisha, and she made the remark that those Bethel children were worse than the heathen, although they lived at a place which at one time was the House of God, and then she added solemnly,
“Some of you who have long heard the Gospel may become scoffers at God’s servants and His truth, if you remain unsaved.”
I was arrested by that saying. I knew it applied to me. All the week I was in soul-trouble and would fain have told it, but was too proud. The following Sunday our lesson was in John 10.
I saw, entered in, and was saved in my class.
There are very few even among children who have not heard of Jesus as the Saviour. Yet many are not saved. Are you, reader, child or adult, like this child who at one time sought to find a vain refuge in the faith her parents had? If so, may you see for yourself, and enter in by Christ, the Door, and be saved.
ML 09/03/1933