"It will Kill Her."
I was thinking to-day of the difference between those who knew Christ
when trouble comes upon them and those who knew Him not. I know several
members of families who are just stumbling into their graves over
trouble. I know two widows in Chicago who are weeping and mourning over
the death of their husbands, and their grief is just taking them to
their graves. Instead of bringing their burdens to Christ, they mourn
day and night, and the result will be that in a few weeks or years at
most their sorrow will take them to their graves when they ought to take
it all to the Great Physician. Three years ago a father took his wife
and family on board that ill-fated French steamer. They were going to
Europe, and when out on the ocean another vessel ran into her and she
went down. That mother when I was preaching in Chicago used to bring her
two children to the meetings every night. It was one of the most
beautiful sights I ever looked on, to see how those little children used
to sit and listen, and to see the tears trickling down their cheeks when
the Saviour was preached. It seemed as if nobody else in that meeting
drank in the truth as eagerly as those little ones.
One-night when an invitation had been extended to all to go into the
inquiry room, one of these little children said: "Mamma, why can't I go
in too?" The mother allowed them to come into the room, and some friend
spoke to them, and to all appearances they seemed to understand the plan
of salvation as well as their elders.
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