TWO GIRLS CONFESS CHRIST.
[From The Chosen People, organ of Jewish Missions in Brooklyn, N. Y.] Two JEWISH girls of about twelve and thirteen years, attended one of the meetings, listening with great attention altho the preaching was in Jewish and Hebrew, which I thought they would not understand, being brought up in the English schools in America. But to my surprise, every expression was plain to them. No sooner did I come down from the platform at the close of the service than they came up and began to talk to me. Of course, we knew each other very well because they attend our schools in connection with the mission, and this evening, having listened with great attention, their minds had been awakened and they wanted more light. "What do you mean, Mr. Cohn," said they, "when you tell us to come to Jesus?" "To read His Word, to believe what He says and to accept Him as the only one Saviour." "Did you mean us girls, too?" "Why, certainly," I answered. "Why must we come to Jesus?" they asked. "Because you are sinners, aren't you? Are you always doing the right things and not wrong?" "O, yes," said one of them, "I know I often do wrong. The other day a little boy in our neighborhood went to mother and said that I spent two cents for candy, and because I didn't like him to tell, I kicked him." "How do you know that that is wrong?" I said. "Because I heard you say that Jesus did not curse those that crucified Him, but prayed for them, and I am so sorry now that I kicked the boy." I turned to the other girl, "Are you a sinner?" "O, yes, I have told so many lies." "Now, what are you going to do?" said I. "Both of you are sinners, and God has said, 'The soul that sinneth, it shall die.'" They thought for a minute, and then answered in the presence of many, who instead of leaving the hall after the service, had waited and listened with great interest to my conversation with the girls, "We will believe in Jesus, and then God will pardon our sins as you say." "Now, when you reach home, girls, and your mothers tell you not to believe, what will you do then?" They didn't know what to answer to that, so I told them to show themselves very good and obedient girls and to beg their parents humbly and ardently not to be worried and grieved over their belief in Jesus, because it will only make them better girls. They also promised that they would testify of the Lord Jesus to every Jew with whom they came in contact.