Just as I Am | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 4, 1864

"Just as I Am."

Two elderly ladies, "mothers in Israel," were one day conversing with a minister of the gospel. One of them, fluent of speech, readily gave expression to her religious experience, her trust in Christ, and hope of soon entering into the rest prepared for God's children.

When at length she paused, her sister, a quiet, reticent woman, said with a tear in her eye, "I cannot tell how I feel, the words don't come, but here is a hymn which will speak for me," and from out the faded and worn leaves of her pocket-book she took a bit of paper bearing the marks of constant use; her friend opened it, and not without emotion, read:

"Just as I am, without one plea, But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come."

"Yes, that's it," she said, smiling through her tears, "Just as I am." And she folded up the precious bit, and replaced it in the faded pocket-book, ready again to be her comfort in hours of communion, with her Saviour.—Sel.