JUNIOR KING'S BUSINESS
MARY JEAN A TRUE STORY
by Emily J.
Alexander
M a r y J e a n was only four years old, but she was old enough to attend the Daily Vacation Bible School which was held in her neigh borhood — and what an enthusiastic pupil she was, not willing to miss a single day! One morning Mary Jean was up bright and early. Her daddy was go ing fishing that day, and her mother was as busy as could be, getting the housework done before she took Mary Jean to the Bible school. After Daddy had given them each a farewell kiss, and when mother and daughter were alone together, Mary Jean looked up into her mother’s face and said, “ Oh, I do love Jesus better than any one, don’t you?” Of course, her mother said, “Yes.” Then Mary Jean began to sing one of the Bible school choruses: “ Calvary covers it all, My past with its sin and stain”— but here the song stopped. Mary Jean could not remember any more. “Mamma, you please go on with the song,” the little girl said, “ for I don’t knowthe rest. So mother sang on: “My guilt and despair,
book of the Bible. I wonder how many of you have your names written there. Records are kept in heaven, you know, and some day, those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will go to be with the Lord Jesus in the beautiful home He has gone to prepare. “ But how may one have his name written in God’s record? Not one of you is too young to tell when your birthday is, or how many candles your mother put on your cake for your last birthday, so of course you are old enough to remember when you asked the Lord Jesus to come into your heart to be your Saviour. John 1:12 says: ‘But as many as received him, to them gave he power to be come the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.’ How many of you boys and girls, who have never received the Lord Jesus as your Sa viour, will be willing to do so today? W ill you say with me the words of this chorus? “ ‘Into my heart, into my heart, Come into my heart, Lord Jesus. Come in today, come in to stay, Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.’ ” Little Mary Jean, who had said that very morning, “Mother, I love Jesus better than any one else,” was the first to raise her hand and to come
“ Oh, I do wish you would ask them to sing that song at the Bible school this morning,” Mary Jean said, as her mother finished the chorus. Mary Jean could not have told why she liked it so much, but the Lord Jesus knew. When they reached the Bible school that morning, imagine their surprise to hear that very chorus be ing sung by the children! The Heav enly Father had planned it so. But this was not the only lovely surprise that came to Mary Jean that day. There was a special speaker—a dear Christian who was called a Bible woman— one who knew just how to talk to boys and girls about the Lord Jesus. “When you first came to the Daily Vacation Bible School,” she began, “your names and ages and addresses were written down by the secretary, weren’t they? Your names were writ ten nicely in a record book in ink, to be kept. If they had been written in pencil, they might have been erased, but their being in ink insures their being kept for next year’s Bible school. “ It is a fine thing to have one’s name in such a record book; I would be proud to have my name written there. But there is another Book which holds a record more precious than any earthly record. It is the Lamb’s Book of Life. We read about it in the last
Jesus took on Him there, And Calvary covers it all.”
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