Little Emily lives with her mother in a quiet street of the old city of Norwich. It is rather a poor street, but the houses are neat, and sometimes in the summer, the tiny gardens are gay with flowers. Emily’s mother is a dressmaker, and has to work hard for a living. I am glad to tell you that, although Emily is young, she is a believer in the Lord Jesus.
Perhaps you may learn a lesson from the adventure that this fatherless family had to pass through a few months ago. Their street is near the Wensum River, and one Saturday, in the spring, the water began to rise. About supper time, the water began to come in under the door, so Emily and her mother carried all the things they could up the stairs, and stayed up there. Wouldn’t you be frightened if you saw the water rising higher and higher? Emily and her mother knelt down and asked God to take care of them through the dark night. There was no sleep for them, and when the dawn came, they looked anxiously out of the upstairs window for some one to come and save them.
At last they saw some kind men whom they knew, coming in boats. Emily shouted to them as lustily as she could, and soon the boat was right by their window, and strong men reached and lifted them to safety.
How earnestly Emily and her mother watched from that window, and how eagerly did they accept the deliverance provided for them. What would you have thought if they had hidden theelves in a corner of the room and rused the way of escape?
And yet, dear children, a storm of wrath and judgment is soon going to fall on this poor world, and when the storm comes it will then be too late to cry for mercy and escape. The time is now! Are you safe? The Lord Jesus Himself is the only Saviour from that storm and He wants to save you now.
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation.” Hebrew 2:3.
ML 07/29/1951