139 The Revelation of Jesus Christ pull teeth! And I do not know of a couple anywhere who are more devoted to God than are these two. Yet sorrow and tragedy visit every man, irrespective of 'whether he may be saint or sinner; and these people were no exception. After their conversion, God gave them a dear little baby son. They named him Ted,....-after his father. They taught that little lad to love the Lord, and the father often said he wanted him to be a missionary. One day a long distance telephone call came to me, and from the lips of the heart-broken father I heard a sad report. It seems that Ted had been walking along the banks of the lake with a little Catholic boy. As children will, they fell to -talking about dying. Said Ted, "I would not be afraid to die." "I thought everybody was afraid to die," his little friend answered. "No, I am not afraid to die. You know Jesus died for us; and when you put your trust in Jesus, you do not have to be afraid." "Is that so, Ted?" asked the other little boy. "Yes," said Ted, and quoted some of the Scripture verses his father and mother had taught him. Half an hour after that, the father and mother went down to the shore of the lake to look for Ted. They called, but he did not answer. Then they saw something down beneath the water. It was the dead body of their own child. . I went to Chicago to preach the funeral sermon of that little lad of flve years of age, whose last ministry had been to tell a little Catholic boy that one need not be afraid to die. As we stood beside his casket, gazing down upon the silent little form the night before the funeral. the mother said to me: "I believe in God and I trust Him. But in all of my days I have never seen anything as dark as this. I have tried to see the why of it, and I cannot. Everything is dark. Can't you give me a little light?" If I had been given from that moment until the end of time, I .could not have explained the "why" of things to her. What I said to her I say to all who question: One day "the mystery of God" shall be finished. All the tragedies of sin, the trage-
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