WILL you take your Bibles, dear children, and read Ps. 51:7, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”
What a precious word this is! May this be the desire of many of our young friends.
Let me tell you a little true story about this verse. Lilly, a dear young girl about fourteen; who had trusted in the Lord Jesus as her Saviour, lived in a pretty little place called Hunter’s Hill on the banks of a large river running into Sydney Harbor, in New South Wales. One day when she got into the school playground a number of her play-mates were in a group together asking each other riddles. “Ah,” said one, “here is Lilly,” adding a remark about her being religious, “let us ask her one.” Lilly never answered until they wanted her to ask them a riddle, to which she replied, “What’s whiter than snow?”
Lilly’s new teacher heard this, and called her aside and said, “I know, Lilly; a sinner washed in the precious blood of, Jesus.” How glad Lilly was to hear that her new teacher belonged to the Lord Jesus. Meantime the girls were trying to answer the question and were guessing sugar, flour, etc., never giving a thought as to what Lilly meant, and, on “giving up,” Lilly gave them the answer to her riddle in the teacher’s words. What a bright testimony that was from one of the lambs of the Good Shepherd’s flock; and how it shows, too, how a little believer can seize opportunities for serving the Lord Jesus.
ML 03/02/1903