Billy. I saw him the other day, and feel sure that you can bring him
around all right. I shall come over often to assist you, and I know that
many will find the same dear Friend in whom you are rejoicing tonight.
"How wonderfully has the Lord's hand been guiding since first I saw
Rosa that cold December day; and the end is not yet!"
For several minutes the little company sat in silence, each one buried
in thoughts too deep and sacred to find expression in words.
Presently Rosa lifted her head from the doctor's shoulder, her lustrous
eyes becoming more luminous than ever, as she said:
"Oh, how glad I am that I have found the way to the beautiful land!
Mother's there, and don't cough no more. Grandpa's there, and we're all
going some day, 'cause Jesus paid the fare a long time ago!"
AFTERWORD.
One bitterly cold December day, while riding in a streetcar in a large
city, a frail-looking little girl, bending beneath the weight of a huge
package, entered the car, sitting directly in front of me. She was
thinly, though neatly, clad. Her pale face was overshadowed by an
expression of care far too old for her baby shoulders, while her eyes
were large, dark, and pathetically wistful.
There was something irresistible about her whole appearance, impelling
me to cross the aisle and sit down by her side.
She told me that her name was Rosa, and the conversation which followed,
suggested the story, "ROSA'S QUEST."
I asked her if she knew anything about Jesus. To this she replied:
"Not much, ma'am, but it seems like I've heard just a little."
Of heaven and the way of salvation she was as ignorant as a child in the
wilds of Africa. The sad expression of her face did not alter till I
quoted John 3:16, then looking up with a smile she said:
"Ain't that pretty?"
For some time we talked, her hungry soul eagerly drinking in the old,
old story, but to her so new.
Suddenly she left the car, and with a sense of deep depression, I saw
her disappear amid a great, seething mass of humanity.
If she has not succumbed to the hardships of poverty, she probably is
still toiling on in that proud "Christian" city, and has any one taught
her more of Jesus than she knew that day?
Who will be responsible for these lost souls, constantly coming into
contact with those who profess to know the Lord?
Why is it that so many Christians view life from an inverted standpoint,
attaching apparently vastly more importance to the few brief years spent
upon this earth, than to the countless cycles of eternity? Why not view
it normally, making our one business that of serving that blessed
Christ?
Surely the saddest word in a Christian's vocabulary is indifference.
By-and-by many a one would doubtless gladly forfeit ten thousand years
of heavenly bliss just to recall the wasted opportunities of this day.
It is an incomparable privilege to be a child of the King, and the only
way in which one may prove his appreciation and loyalty is by the degree
of consecration and quality of service rendered.
At the day of Christ's appearing there will be many an unrewarded
Christian, saved eternally by the precious blood of God's sacrificial
Lamb, but with no glittering starry crown to cast at those once-pierced
and bleeding feet!
If the reading of this little story draws any nearer to the Lord,
influencing them to become more diligent in their search for the lost,
it shall accomplish that whereunto it is prayerfully sent.
MAN'S QUESTIONS; GOD'S ANSWERS
Am I accountable to God?
"Every one of us shall give account of himself to God" (Romans
14:12).
Has God seen all my ways?
"All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom
we have to do" (Hebrews 4:13).
Does He charge me with sin?
"The Scripture hath concluded all under sin" (Galatians 3:22).
"All have sinned" (Romans 3:23).
Will He punish sin?
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4).
"For the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
Must I perish?
"God is not willing that any perish, but that all should come
to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
How can I escape?
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved"
(Acts 16:31).
Is He _able_ to save me?
"He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto
God by Him" (Hebrews 7:25).
Is He willing?
"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1 Timothy
1:15).
Am I saved on believing?
"He that believeth on the Son _hath_ everlasting life" (John
3:36).
Can I be saved now?
"_Now_ is the accepted time; behold, _now_ is the day of
salvation" (2 Corinthians 6:2).
As I am?
"Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37).
Shall I not fall away?
"Him that is able to keep you from falling" (Jude 24).
If saved, how should I live?
"They which live should not henceforth live unto themselves,
but unto Him which died for them" (2 Corinthians 5:25).
What about death, and eternity?
"I go to prepare a place for you; that _where I am_, there ye
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