Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour: A Token for ChildrenJaneway, James
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Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour: A Token for Children
Janeway, James
Children -- Religious life -- Juvenile literature; Christian life -- Juvenile literature
She was visited by her much beloved teacher Miss S., whom she had long
wished to see; and to whom, with the rest of the teachers of the school,
her parents say they shall be always thankful for the good instruction
they gave their dear departed child; and hope that the committee and
teachers of the school at Argyle chapel, and of every other similar
school, will be encouraged by this instance of the good effects of
religious advice in a child only nine years old, to go forward in their
endeavours to bring young sinners to Christ. She was much struck with a
passage of Scripture in Revelation, that Mr. J. preached from: "They
shall be clothed in white." "O," said Elizabeth, "I expect to be clothed
in white too." And as her mother was sitting by her bedside reading, she
said, "If God will let me, I will keep places for you who may be left
behind." Her brother she advised not to play so much, but to be a good
boy, mind his book and school, and pray to God to make him truly
religious; or he would go to a place of misery after death. Being told
that she was very ill, she replied, "I must bear it with patience:"
though, in fact, she longed to be gone. When she was very weak, and
death stared in her face, her parents carried her from one room to
another; but in no place could she find ease. She, however, contemplated
with satisfaction the day when she should eat of the tree of life that
grows in the midst of the paradise of God; "There," said Elizabeth, "I
shall never thirst, nor never sin, but behold the Lamb, who will lead me
to fountains of living water." After lying one day in a doze, she opened
her eyes and said, "Mother, I have seen an angel." Her mother asked her
where? She pointed to the place where she dreamed that she saw him. And,
being asked if she should like to go with him, she answered, "Yes."
"There I shall see his face,
And never, never sin;
There from the rivers of his grace
Drink endless pleasures in."
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