It is—to take Jesus to be our Saviour.
To ask Him to wash away our sins; to help us to be pure, and good; to be our light in our darkest hours; to be our joy, our life, and our happiness, if we have taken Him for our own Saviour.
Years ago, when I was a little girl of twelve, I heard a sermon in which we were asked to take Jesus into our hearts, then and there.
I remember how, directly I reached home, I ran up into my room, and knelt down, and asked Him to take me.
Since then, Jesus has been all the world to me. And He has helped me through a long life to try to bring others to love Him.
A little girl was asked by the Vicar a few Sundays ago, whether she had understood what he had said?
She looked up sweetly, and answered: "You said, 'we must do all we can for Jesus Christ'!"
[XXIII. THE WIDOW'S MITE]
ONE day, our dear Lord was teaching in God's Temple at Jerusalem, and preaching the Gospel. He had been warning the people against the scribes who made long prayers for a show, but who oppressed poor widows and took away their houses.
The Lord looked straight into people's hearts, and He could not bear for the scribes to seem so very good outside, and to be so wicked inside!