Let me tell you a word of another gentle lamb, whom Jesus
gathered, and whom I saw on her way from grace to glory. She
was early brought to Christ, and early taken to be with Him where
He is. She told her companions that she generally fell asleep on
these words, " His left hand is under my head, and his right hand
doth embrace me ;" and sometimes on these, " Underneath are the
everlasting arms." She said she did not know how it was, but
somehow she felt that Christ was always near her. Another time
she said, " I think it's the best way to make myself as loathsome
as I can before Him, and then to look to Jesus." When seized
with her last illness, and told that the doctors thought she would
not live long, she looked quite composed, and said, " I am very
happy at that." She said she could not love Jesus enough here ;
that she would like to be with Him, and then she would love Him
as she ought. To her tender, watchful relative she said, " I won-
der at your often looking so grave. I'm surprised at it, for 1
think I am the happiest person in the house. I have every tem-
poral comfort, and then I am going to Jesus." After a companion
had been with her, she said, " Margaret quite entered into my
happiness ; she did not look grave, but smiled ; that showed how
much she loves me." When sitting one evening, her head resting
on a pillow, she was asked, " Is there anything the matter, my
darling?" " Oh," she said, "I am only weak. I am quite happy.
Jesus has said, * Thou art mine.'" Another day, when near her
last, one said to her, ''Have you been praying much to-day?"
" Yes," she replied, " and I have been trying to praise too." " And
what have you been praising for?" "I praise God," she said,
" for all the comforts I have. I praise Him for many kind friends,
you know He is the foundation oi all; and I praise Him for taking
a sinner to glory."
These are a few of the many golden sayings of this lamb of
Christ, now, I trust, safe in the fold above. Would you wish to
be gathered thus ? Go now to some lonely place kneel down,
and call upon the Lord Jesus. Do not leave your knees until you
find Him. Pray to be gathered with his arm, and carried in his
bosom. Take hold of the hem of his garment, and say, " I must
not ” I dare not I will not let Thee go except Thou bless me."
seek him in earnest, and seek Him in time,
For they that seek early shall find ;
While they that neglect Him are hardened in crime,
And never can come to this pure blessed clime
They perish in anguish of mind.
McCheyne,
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