JUNIOR KING'S BUSINESS
"Everybody” Means You
O NE S unday morning a Biola stu dent took the bus to go to her assignment as usual. The seats on the coach were all taken save one occupied by a small boy. The stu dent, constrained by the love of Christ for little children, asked the lad: “ Are you going to Sunday school, Sonny?” “ No, I don’t go to Sunday school,” he replied. “ Have you ever heard the story of the Lord Jesus?” the student con tinued. He said he hadn’t. “ Do you know about Heaven?” was the next inquiry and again the boy shook his head. So first the student began to describe the glories and beauties of heaven, concluding with these words, “ but sinners cannot enter.” Then she told the story of the Lord Jesus, who came to earth and by dying upon the Cross became the Saviour of boys and girls as well as men and women. She said, “ He came to be the ‘way’ to heaven and if you will take Him as your Saviour you may be sure of some day entering that beau tiful city.” “ I would like Ao take Him as my Saviour,” the child said eagerly, look ing up into the face of the student. So with heads bowed, though the bus was speeding along rapidly, the child prayed with simple childlike faith: “ Lord Jesus, I take You as my Sav iour.” Anxious to make sure that the child realized the step he had taken, the student questioned him at length and also led him to realize some of the riches that were his as a result of taking the Lord Jesus as his own Saviour. After talking of these pre cious things, it was only natural that they should again bow their heads in a prayer of praise and thanksgiving. A gospel was then placed in the hands of the boy who promised to read it every day and attend Sun day school on Sunday. By this time the bus ride for the student had terminated, but as she left the car, the lad with a new joy on his face said, “ I'm sure glad I met you this morning.” And the student knew that again the miracle of the new birth had been wrought and a little child had become a mem ber of God’s family.
M a r g a r e t B r o w n e , who was eight years old, sat quietly with her six-year-old brother Johnny in the back seat of her 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 spo ken 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 ex plained 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 children,” 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 nightgown. What could this mean? Looking closely, Mrs. Browne read the words, “ I want to be saved,” writ ten in Margaret’s childish handwrit ing. “My precious child!” murmured Mrs. Browne as she stood by the bed wondering whether to waken Mar garet right then or to wait until morn ing 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 discovered 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 Bi ble to a verse that Margaret could easily read, John 3:16. Aloud, Mar garet 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, “Every body.” “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 question, “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.”
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M AY, 1964
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