“WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME”

Hoa Maori, Issue 17, 1 July 1890, Page 7

“WHO LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME ”

Galatians 2, 20.

(to THE CHILDREN.)

I® 1® 3SJJKHA.T would you do, my little ■W 'sww/fr' fellow,” said a Christian to a boy, “ if your father and mother were to go away from you and leave you alone in the world?” “If they did that I should not be left alone, I should still have Jesus,” replied the boy. “Most assuredly you would, my dear child, and the Lord grant that you may never lose your happy confidence in Him; hut what makes you think that Jesus would still remain with you if all your friends left you

"Because the Bible says that Jesus died for me, and if Ho loved me so muck as to come all the way from heaven to die for me, I know He. will take care of me until He comes to take me to His beautiful home f" But, my dear child, you might die and be laid in the cold grave before Jesus comes, and What then ?" . " If I were to die, my soul would go to Jesus at once, so it would only be my body that was laid in the ground, and when Jesus comes He would raise that up too, and change it like His own, and then both my body and my soul would be joined together, and I should be with Him for ever ?" In reading the foregoing the following beautiful scriptures came to my mind: — When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. - Psalm 27, 10. He that spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things. Romans 8, 32. He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, 'the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me (Hebrews 13,5-6)