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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
May, 1938
“ I Want To Be Saved” *: Margaret Browne, who was eight years old, sat quietly with her six-year-old brother Johnny in the back seat of the car as they rode home one night after church. They were so unusually quiet that Mrs. Browne noticed it and spoke to Mr. Browne about it. An evangelist who was a stranger to most of the congregation had spoken at the church service that night on “ The Joy of Soul-Winning.” As he told people how to help others receive the Lord Jesus as Saviour, he explained the way of salvation again and again. Most of the people left the church with a new determination to win souls for Christ. “ But Johnny and Margaret are only chil dren,” thought Mrs. Browne, “ and they’re far too young to understand the message that that earnest young man gave tonight. Surely they are not feeling that they must do anything about the message they have just heard!” The children hurried to their rooms upon reaching home and quietly got ready for bed. Later, Mrs. Browne, as usual, came to their beds to say good night but found both children asleep- As she bent over Margaret to press a good-night kiss on her cheek, she noticed a note pinned to Margaret’s night gown. What could this mean? Looking closely, Mrs. Browne read the words, “ L want to be saved,” written in Margaret’s childish handwriting. “M y precious child!” murmured Mrs. Browne as she stood by the bed wondering whether to waken Margaret right then or to wait until morning to show her that the Lord Jesus is the children’s Saviour. Mrs. Browne finally decided to wait until Mar garet awoke in the morning, for she realized that the Lord had known all. about the little girl’s desire and that His all-seeing eye had seen the note before she had dis covered it. With the breaking of the new day and the sound of childish voices, Mrs. Browne called little Margaret to her room. “Margaret, dear, I read the note pinned to your nightie last evening, and it made me so happy to know that my little girl wants to belong to the Lord Jesus.” Mrs. Browne then opened her Bible to a verse that Margaret could easily rea'd, John 3:16. Aloud, Margaret read: “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life.” “ Now who is meant by the ‘world’ ?” asked her mother, to which Margaret promptly replied, “Everybody.” ' ' “ And does ‘everybody’ include you, dear?” further questioned Mrs. Browne. “ Yes, it does,” agreed Margaret. “Then read the verse again, and just put your own name in that place,” urged her mother. And Margaret read, “ For God so loved Margaret, that he gave his only begotten Son . . “ Isn’t it wonderful, my dear child, that God so loved you, that He sent His only Son into the world to die for you and to bear all your sins?” continued Mrs. Browne. Then she asked Margaret the direct ques tion, “ Do you believe that Jesus did it for you?”
“ Yes, I do,” answered Margaret quickly. “ Then according to God’s own Word, you shall ‘not perish, but have everlasting life.’ Let us thank Him for this wonderful gift.” Margaret prayed, “ Father, I thank Thee for the Lord Jesus who loved me and died for me.”
Answer: “ And that from a child thou has known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Tim . 3:15). Question: How may a child be saved? Answer: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31). New K. Y. B. C. Members The following have read through the Gospel ac cording to John and are now members of the Know Your Bible Club: Aberdeen, S. Dak.: Betty Lou and Mary Acker- son; Charles Aggen; Billy Allen; Gladys Benson; Frances Berto; Mavonne Brandlee; Vernon Burns; Marylin Douglas; Lawrence Dralle; Beverly Eak- ins; Jerry and Phyllis Edinger; Virginia Ells worth; Edgar Engle; Virginia Ernst; Dorrine Fitch; Wendell Garwood; Lynford and Merle Hor- man; Marjorie Jones; Lucia Leighton; Alfred Luce; Billy Morrison; Joanne Norris; Dolly and Mary Paulson; Mary Sloan; Shirley Smail; Ardlene Stange; Bonnie Jean Stromaier; Luverne Thompson; Betty Tronvold; Myla Wilson, and Millicent Winter (Bee Hollenbeck and Lee McCall, leaders). Banning, Calif.: Sherman Blakeslee; Alice, Arlene, John and Maxine Crawford; Mabelle Dowling; Dorothy and Katherine Mueller; Billy and Bobby Purcell; Ethel, Floyd, Roger, Wilma, and Roberta Sutton; Verne and Jerome Wood (Mrs. C. V. Hut chens, leader). Beatrice, Nebr.: Ellen Louise Claassen. Brookings, S. Dak.: Beverly Johnson and Helen Squires (Mrs. Paul Brandt, leader). Cottonwood, Calif.: Edward Petersen. Forest Grove, Ore. .*■>Annabelle Mott. Grass Valley, Calif.: Bertha and Edith Sweeney. # Houghton, N. Y.: Marjorie Aspell; Rowena Fer- rin, and Vera Wilcox (William H. Jessop, teacher). Huntington Park, Calif.: Irene Tormohlen and Mrs. C. J. Tormohlen. Ionia, Mich.: Barbara Eitner and Alice Swan- berg. Kearney, Nebr.: Patricia Ann Walker (Mrs. V. A. Clocksin, leader). Los Angeles, Calif.: Aram and Pearl Agajanian; Clarence and Florence Gatfield (Mrs. Raymond Genet, leader). Loveland, Colo.: Geraldine and Rosella Atteberry; Warren Bateman; Nelson and Richard Berggren; Harold and Marilyn Fick; Margaret Gates; Paul Keating; Earl Klein; Helen Parker; Nancy Ray- bourn; Howard West, and Clifford Wride (Mrs. Francis J. Keating and Mrs. Beth T. Walker, leaders). Poulsbo, Wash.: Dona Frykholm; Betty Schlos- key, and Evelyn Scupholm (Mrs. B. Schloskey, sup erintendent). San Bernardino, Calif.: Ronald Brock; Betty Joan Darling; Stanley Lonberger, and Herbert Young (Pearl Weeks, leader). Santa Rosa, Calif.: Peggy Canby (Mrs. Esther V. Meeker). Savage, Mont.: Ida, Mary and Roy Almond. . Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Hazel, Junior and Lil lian Pennington and Virginia Ridge (Eula E. Greenway, leader). Soldiers Grove, Wis.: Dorris Adney; Wilmina Anderson; Fredrick Banta; Kenneth Fortney; Del- ores Guist; Carolyn Jouson; Maryilih Smith; Kent Snyder, and Buddy Tilly (Margaret Peterson, teacher). Spokane, Wash.: Telia Ann Arthur; Elenor and June Anderson; Joan Crisp; Juanita Cummins; Helen Jarvis; Madonna Kaasa; Barbara McCarty; Carroll McDonald; Jean Meese; Francis Norton, and Marguerite Jean Safer (L. Sanford, superin tendent). Topeka, Kans.: Norma Jean Crites; Dorothy Dean; Marjean Kittrell; Marjorie Luckensmeyer; Doris and Margaret Mize (Pearl Dean, leader). Xenia, Ohio: Kathryn Coates; Ann Creswell; • Dorothy Jeffryes; Ruth Milburn; Eunice Muterl spaw; Margaret Slagle; Joyce Wead, and Helen Margaret Yockey (Eleanor Alexander, leader). How to Join the K. Y. B. Club To become a member of the Know Your Bible Club, read through the Gospel according to John, using either your own Bible or a Gospel of John which will be sent upon request. When the Gospel has been read, and a state ment to this effect, signed by parent or Sun day-school teacher, has been sent to the Editor of the Junior King’s Business, a K. Y. B. C. pin will be mailed. Sunday-school classes or clubs desiring to order ten or more Gospels or pins may wish to share the cost of these supplies, as the Lord directs: Gospels, postpaid, five cents each — in quantity, three cents; pins, without postage, two cents each. However, no one is to do without a Gospel or pin because of lack of money. Address: Junior King’s Busi ness, 558 South Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
Margaret went away singing, and Johnny was next called to his mother’s side. The precious verses that pointed the way to the Lord Jesus were read to him; and, like Margaret, he, too, accepted the Lord Jesus as his own Saviour. What a happy day this was in the Browne home! And in heaven, too, the angels rejoiced because two “ lambs” had entered the fold of the Good Shepherd. Later in the day Johnny said to his sister, “ I didn’t know it was so easy to become a Christian, did you?” And Margaret answered, “ No, I didn’t, but I’m glad, because if it had been hard, we couldn’t have found the way.”—M.S.H. NO ROOM FOR JESUS By MRS. ISAAC J. FRAZEE How sad to my heart is the thought of my Lord With no place to lay His dear head. The foxes have holes, the birds have their nests, But Jesus hath never a bed. I'll make room for Him in the depths of my heart: Dear Jesus, I want none beside. Oh, make my heart clean, and free me fr.om sin; Come, Jesus! Forever abide. Memory Verses for May Question: When is the best time to re member your Creator? Answer: “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them” (Eccl. 12:1). Question: What gracious invitation did the Lord Jesus extend to “ little children” when He was here upon earth? Answer: “ But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:14). Question: How did the Lord Jesus answer the question of the disciples when they asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Answer: “ And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and becoipe as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heav en” (Matt. 18:2, 3). Question: When did Paul say that the young man Timothy began to “ know the holy Scriptures” ?
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