THE BOY WHO WAS READY

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 29.

THE BOY WHO WAS READY.

NEARLY twenty-five years ago we clipped the following from one of our exchanges, but it is as interesting to-day as it was then:—

“Chaplain Byers told, in one of the Ohio conventions, of a Scotch boy whom he knew many years ago, who had little knowledge in his head, but much in his heart. They called him underwitted; but he knew enough to believe in Jesus as his Saviour. There came one of the grand meteoric showers by night, which startled many with the thought that the end of the world was here. That boy’s mother was as thoroughly alarmed as any one. Seeing the strange sight from her window, she ran to her boy’s bed-room, where he was sleeping quietly, and called out, ‘Wake up, Sandy, wake up! The judgment-day has come.’ The boy roused himself, and sat up in bed; and as the mother cried out again in her terror, ‘O Sandy, Sandy! the judgment-day has come,’ Sandy, rubbing his eyes to get them open, called out in joy, ‘Glory to God, mother! I’m ready.’ He knew the truth by heart, and his perfect love cast out all fear.”—Selected.