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DID HE GET IN?

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 27, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 18.

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DID HE GET IN?

A father was reading, at family worship, that beautiful passage, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.”
A little one who was listening, unable to wait to see if the matter was further explained, ran up to him, and asked eagerly, “Did he get in, father, did he get in?” The little active mind had formed a picture of the suppliant at the door knocking for admittance, and he realized what a sad thing it would be for him to go away without gaining an entrance.
You may be quite sure the Scriptures were not read in the monotonous tone too common at family devotions. That father had learned to throw the life and spirit of the sentiment into his voice and manner. Such reading will not fail to impress even the mind of the little child.