May, 1942
•THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NES S
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Junior King's Business By MARTHA S. HOOKER Member of Faculty, Bible Institute o f Los Angeles
cross for your sins, and if you will ask Him to take away your sins, why, He will do it. Do you want Jesus to take away all of your old blaek sins?” “Y-yes,” came the low answer, a little uncertainly. “Well, then, just bow your head and ask 'lim to, and He will.” : But Wilma Mae shook her curly head. “I-I can’t, ’ Miss Doris,” she sobbed. “Not today,” she finished more firmly. “But why not, dear? The Bible says, ‘Now is the day of salvation.’ ” “I know, but I can’t today.” She hoped Miss Doris would not ask her- any more. Then seeing the troubled look on her teacher’s face, she threw her arms around her negk and whis pered, “ I’m sorry, Miss Doris, that I’ve hurt you.” Turning suddenly, she sped from the room and out into the bright sunshine which somehow did not look bright to her now. The sky that had been so blue now looked gray and cold. Indeed, ’ Wilma Mae felt all cold and forlorn inside. She hurried all the way home. She could hardly choke down the good Sunday dinner that Mother had pre pared, but no one seemed to notice her silence. She was glad when din ner was over and she could slip away to her own small rijom. Care fully closing her door, she flung her self across her bed and let all the tears and sobs come. She did want to be a Christian, but she just couldn’t give up her watch. After a long time, she wiped her eyes and crept from her bed to her dresser. She reached far back into the drawer, under some books and papers, and drew out a small box. Opening the box, she gazed long and lovingly at the tiny gold watch that lay inside. She wound it carefully, as she did every day, and put it back out of sight again. No, she couldn’t do it. Wilma Mae had wanted a watch of her own for the last three of her nine years. Mary Lou had one and Wilma Mae had secretly envied her for a long time. But she knew her parents could not afford such things, and, she had not asked for a watch. Then one day when she had been cutting across the park to get to Mary Lou’s house, she had found a watch—a beautiful watch, still in its box from the jewel er’s. She had brought the watch home but had not shown it to any one. For Wilma Mae knew who had lost the watch! Old Mrs. Green had dropped it. Wilma Mae had seen her and had run forward to pick the little box up and return it to its owner. But the box had fallen open and inside she saw .the beautiful watch. Then some thing whispered to her, “Old Mrs. Green has loads of money—she will
WILMA MAE BECOMES A PRINCESS By A nne H azelton
■ ILMA MAE had heard every word the Sunday-school Su perintendent had said as the told. Indeed, it just seemed that.she, herself, were there as the shepherd set out to look for. the lost Iamb; and w h e n he had found it and picked it up gently in his arms, Wilma Mae had all she could do to keep back the tears that \varited to come. She had heard the story many times from Mother and from Miss Doris, her own Sunday-school teacher, but it seemed new this morning. The Superintendent was ‘ speaking again, and this time she was asking, in her earnest voice, how many had accepted Christ as their Saviour and knew that they were saved. Wilipa Mae started to put her hand up, arid then she .drew it slowly down again. Again she got it up half-way but took it down. “I don’t know,” she whispered to herself. “I wish I did.” She was very thoughtful all dur ing the class period and was a bit startled when her teacher said, at the close of .the class, “Wilma Mae, will you stay, for just a minute? I should like to talk to you.” “Uh-huh,” she agreed, rather re luctantly. What could the' teacher want to talk about? “Let’s sit down here,” Miss Doris suggested. “I noticed this morning, dear, that you didn’t seem to know whether you’re saved or not. Would you like to be saved?” “Yes, I would,” Wilma Mae replied earnestly. “Well, let’s turn in our Bible and see how God says you can be saved. Here, let’s- read this verse. It is Ro mans 3;23 and says: ‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.’ How many does 'all' mean, Wilma?” “Why 'all' means everybody in the world.” “Then it'means you, doesn’t it?” “Yes, it means me, too.” “Do you believe God’s Word is true? Do you believe that when God says you’re a sinner, you are a sinner, Honey?” “Yes, I believe that,” Wilma Mae answered firmly and wriggled un
comfortably. Did Miss Doris know what she had done? “Well, then, if you’re a sinner, you need some one to take away your sins, don’t you?" “Yes.” “Let’s read another verse and see how God says your sins can all be taken away.” : “ ‘Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!’ That is John 1:29. Do you know who the Lamb of God is, Wilma?” “Why, yes, it’s Jesus.” “Yes, that is right, and if you be lieve that the Lord Jesus died on the
familiar story of the lost lamb was
Wilma Mae had not forgotten the dogs that guarded Mrs. Green’s house, but she was suddenly unafraid.
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