“Jenny,” said I, “you can repeat the Catechism?”
“Yes, sir; but I think that has been one of my sins in the sight of God.”
“What! repeating your Catechism?”
“Yes, sir, in such a way as I used to do it.”
“How was that?”
“Very carelessly indeed. I never thought about the meaning of the words, and that must be very wrong. Sir, the Catechism is full of good things; I wish I understood them better.”
“Well, then, my child, we will talk a little about those good things which, as you truly say, are contained in the Catechism. Did you ever consider what it is to be a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven?”
“I think, sir, I have lately considered it a good deal; and I want to be such, not only in name, but in deed and in truth. You once told me, sir, that ‘as the branch is to the vine, and the stone to the building, and the limb to the body and the head, so is a true believer to the Lord Jesus Christ.’ But how am I to know that I belong to Christ as a
true member, which, you said one day in the church, means the same as a limb of the body, such as a leg or an arm?”
“Do you love Christ now in a way you never used to do before?”