Mary had on her new dress early on the Lord’s day morning, and was ready to go off to Sunday school. Giving her mother a farewell kiss, she whispered,
“Is it nice?”
“Yes, very nice, but I would rather know my little Mary had on ‘the best robe.’”
The lesson that day was the fifteenth chapter of Luke, and when the teacher began to tell how “the best robe” was put on the prodigal, and what it meant, Mary listened most attentively.
“That ‘best robe’ is Christ,” said the teacher, “and all who trust in Him are covered with His beauty, accepted by God, and made righteous in Him.”
When Mary returned home, she ran to her mother, and joyfully said,
“I know the best robe now, mother; it is Christ, and I have Him on me.”
Dear little reader, do you know the Lord Jesus Christ as your own persol Saviour? Have you, like little Mary, put on the Best Robe? If not, come to Him now, just as you are, without delay, for He says in His blessed Word, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37).
ML 09/03/1944