LITTLE Mabel is seven years old. While staying at the seaside, as it is holidays from school, her mamma asked her to practice writing by finding and copying something from a book. These were the beautiful words she copied: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16).)
Then she took it to her mamma to see, who said it was nicely written, and that she was very pleased with her choice of such beautiful words. While mamma was saying this the postman came, so mamma showed Mabel’s writing to him. The postman then said to Mabel, “Why, those are the words of Jesus, and your name is there.”
But Mabel could not understand. She had copied the verse out of the Bible, and did not think her name could be there. So the postman explained that it was the word “whosoever,” which was his name, and Mabel’s name, and every one’s else name in this world.
Will my little reader now read the verse again with the postman’s explanation printed in the place of the word “whosoever.” Thus: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that (you, I, or anybody else) who believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
ML 11/26/1916