God Claims You

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 7, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 45.

It is told of the late Earl Cairns that when he was a little boy he heard three words which made a memorable impression upon him: "God claims you." Then came the question, "What am I going to do with the claim?" He answered, "I will own it, and give myself to God." He went home and told his mother, "God claims me." When he was appointed lord chancellor he was teacher of a large Bible class, and his minister, thinking now he would have no time to devote to that purpose, said to him, "I suppose you will now require to give up your class." "No," was the reply, "I will not; God claims me."—Exchange.