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diff --git a/10618.txt b/10618.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc55392 --- /dev/null +++ b/10618.txt @@ -0,0 +1,727 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jesus Says So, by Unknown + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Jesus Says So + +Author: Unknown + +Release Date: January 22, 2004 [EBook #10618] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JESUS SAYS SO *** + + + + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, David +Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + + + + + + + +"JESUS SAYS SO." + + + * * * * * + +BOSTON: + +MASS. SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY, +Depository, No. 13 Cornhill. + +1851. + + + +[Illustration: Frontispiece.] + + + + +"JESUS SAYS SO." + +OR, + +A MEMORIAL OF LITTLE +SARAH G---- + +FROM THE LONDON EDITION. + +_Approved by the Committee of Publication_. + +BOSTON: + +MASS. SABBATH SCHOOL SOCIETY, +Depository, No. 13 Cornhill. +1851. + + + + +"JESUS SAYS SO." + + +Sarah G---- was one of several children, living with their parents in a +narrow lane in London. Early in the year 1847, Sarah's father had met +with a serious accident, and was then in the hospital, where he remained +for many weeks a severe sufferer. Sarah and her brothers, deprived of +the usual means of support, and their mother being in constant +attendance on her husband, were consequently often left in great +necessity. More than once have these little ones been known to reach the +hour of four or five in the afternoon, before taking any food; but +amidst all their privations, no complaint was heard from the lips of +Sarah. It was not known until after her death, how silently, yet how +powerfully, the Spirit of God was, even at this time, working in her +heart. + +There was nothing particularly attractive in her appearance; quiet and +unobtrusive, she seemed to the outward observer like most other +children; but "the Lord seeth not as man seeth." The Great Shepherd of +the sheep had his eye on this little lamb of the fold, and marked her +for his own. At home she was gentle and affectionate, obedient to her +parents, and during their absence she watched kindly over her little +brothers. + +Her poor family tasted largely of the cup of sorrow, but poverty and +distress, instead of producing impatience and unkindness, seemed to bind +each one more closely to the other. They experienced the truth of those +words: "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and +hatred therewith," Prov. 15:17. "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness +therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife," Prov. 17:1. + +The death of her youngest brother appeared to make a strong impression +on Sarah's mind; she said she liked to think she had a brother in +heaven. Soon after that event, she was admitted into a Sabbath school, +and it was her delight in the week to prepare her lessons. "Sunday is +such a happy day," she would say; and on that morning she would rise +earlier than usual to get ready for school. + +A little circumstance, which occurred at this time, marked her +tenderness of conscience. A new bonnet had been promised to her, but not +arriving at the time she had hoped, her disappointment was so great that +she shed many tears. This was mentioned to a friend, who talked to her +about it. Sarah made no remark at the time, but afterwards she said to +her mother, "I did not know before that it was wrong to cry when we were +disappointed; I will try not to do so again:" and in the evening her +father overheard her begging God to forgive her pride and fretting about +the bonnet. + +Another feature in Sarah's character may be here noticed: this was her +love of truth. "She has never deceived me," was her mother's frequent +remark. "I cannot remember a single instance of untruth, _even in +play_," and perhaps this truthfulness of spirit enabled her the more +readily to trust the word of another. "She promised me," Sarah would +say, and on the promise she would ever rest, in all the sweet dependence +of a child. Surely this may speak a word to those professing to be the +followers of Him who keepeth his promise for ever--the covenant-keeping +God. How lightly are promises often made! how carelessly and +thoughtlessly broken! + +Sarah was only permitted to attend the Sabbath school for a few weeks. +Her health and strength failed, and soon she was confined to her room, +then to her bed, which she scarcely left for several months. But now the +work of God within her became more evident. It was a pleasant service to +sit by the bed of this young disciple, and read and talk with her of a +Saviour's love. She said but little, except in answer to questions, but +her bright and happy countenance showed how welcome was the subject. Who +that witnessed her simple, child-like faith, would not acknowledge the +fruit of the Spirit's teaching? It was the more apparent, as she had but +little help from man, and few outward advantages, not even being able to +read; but she treasured up in her mind all she heard, and it was as food +to her soul, the joy and rejoicing of her heart. + +At an early period of her illness, a violent attack of pain and +palpitation of the heart made her think she was dying, and she told her +mother so, adding, "But I am not afraid, I am so happy." "What makes you +so happy?" was asked. "Because I am going to heaven, and when I pray to +Jesus, my heart seems lifted up." "But, Sarah, do you think your sins +forgiven?" "Yes, mother, I am sure so." "What makes you so sure?" +"Because _Jesus says so_." + +"Jesus says,"--this was ever the ground of her confidence, and proved to +all around her the Saviour's oft-repeated lesson,--"Whosoever shall not +receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise enter +therein." + +Sarah lingered many weeks after this. Her mind was full of peace; as she +lay on her sick bed, no shade of fear passed over her, all was sunshine +within. This one happy thought filled her mind,--"Jesus loves me, I am +going to heaven." + +A friend wishing to find out on what her hopes of happiness rested, and +if she had a real sense of sin, said to her, "You talk much of going to +heaven, tell me, do you deserve to go there?" "Oh, no," was her reply, +"I do not deserve it." "Why not?" In a solemn tone, she answered, +"Because I have sinned." It was remarked, "How then can you go there? +Heaven is such a holy place, no sin can enter there." With the brightest +smile she quietly replied, "Ah! but Jesus says he will wash away all my +sin, and make my soul quite white, and he will carry me there." + +Oh that all would learn of her thus to take Jesus at his word! What an +enemy to peace is an unbelieving heart! + +None spoke ill of this little girl, even those who knew her least +remarked, "she was a good pleasant child," but her grateful affection +beamed strongly towards all who showed her any kindness, and one who +watched her with interest throughout her illness, will not soon forget +the earnest smile of welcome with which she was always greeted, when too +ill to speak. Thus she told her thanks. + +Once, the 103d Psalm was read to her, with some remarks on David's +causes of thankfulness. It was remarked, "You, too, Sarah, have many +things to bless God for; for what do you thank him most?" She answered, +"Oh, I thank him most for sending Jesus from heaven to save me." + +Many were the words of comfort she spoke to her poor sorrowing mother, +whose heart at times seemed almost broken at the prospect of losing her. +She said, "You will not cry, when I am in heaven, dear mother. I am only +going a little while first, and you will soon follow;" and once, on an +occasion of deep family distress, she pointed to the surest way for +relief, saying, "Mother, why do you cry so? Does not the Bible say God +cares for the sparrows, and are not you better than a sparrow? O mother, +pray, do pray, and then you will be so happy." + +So calmly, so peacefully, did this young disciple enter the dark valley, +that truly she might have said, + + "There's nothing terrible in death + To those who go to heaven." + +Resting in her Saviour's love she feared no evil, his rod and his staff +they comforted her; sin was her only dread. Her only fear was that of +offending her heavenly Father, and on this point she often did express +much anxiety, saying, "Do tell me if I have done wrong. I do not want to +sin; I am so afraid of making God angry. Sometimes my sins look so +black, and seem to come between me and God." Then, as if she still felt +secure in the only hiding-place for sinners, she added, "But Jesus says +he will take them all away, and wash me whiter than snow." + +She delighted much in some little books suited to her age and +circumstances that were read to her; one entitled, "The Infant's +Prayer," and another, "The White Robes," were her greatest favorites. In +allusion to the last of these, she often prayed, "O Lord Jesus, hear a +poor little girl, do give me that beautiful white dress, without one +spot or one stain;" and once when her mother noticed a little hurt on +her arm occasioned by her putting on a change of dress, she sweetly +said, "Never mind that, dear mother; my next dress will not hurt me." + +It was very pleasant to see the affection manifested by her brothers +towards their little sick sister, and she repaid their kindness by +anxiously entreating them to care for their souls. To her father she +said, "I want you to promise me one thing--to meet me in heaven. O +father! do love Jesus. I love him, indeed I do; but I want you to love +him too. There is only one Jesus, one Saviour; and, father, he is so +holy." Then turning to her mother, who was standing by her bed, she +added, "You do love Jesus, but, O mother, pray do love him more, and +more, and more;" she spoke with such energy, as if to impress her +parents with her own feeling, as almost startled them. + +In this state of mind Sarah drew near the end of her pilgrimage, and it +was not until about three days before her death that even the shadow of +a cloud seemed to darken her path. Then, for the first time, her mind +was agitated with doubts as to her Saviour's love for her, and very +distressing to those around her were her anxious cries for pardon. +"Father, forgive me, for Jesus Christ's sake," was her constant +petition. She was visited by a minister and by several Christian +friends, who used every effort to give her relief, but for some time all +in vain; she seemed unable to lay hold on any promise for her comfort. +One of these friends especially felt a deep interest in the dear child, +though she had not known her until now. Of her little Sarah asked most +earnestly, "Do you think that Jesus loves me?" She was assured that he +did. "Do you know he loves me?" she asked; and then followed the solemn +inquiry, "How do you know it?" After reading and talking with her for +some time, she begged her friend would "pray with her to make her a +little happy?" and afterwards in her own words, she would again plead +with God, "Father, forgive me, for Jesus Christ's sake, and wash me in +his blood, and make me a good girl, and take me to heaven." On one +occasion she said, "I wish I could be a little happy,--I want something, +I do not know what I want." She was answered, "I think I can tell you +what you want, it is peace, it is to feel that God has pardoned all your +sins." "Yes," she replied, "I think that is it." + +At another time, when talking of the joys of heaven, "Yes," she said, +"they are singing, Glory, glory, glory," referring to her favorite hymn, +beginning, + + "Around the throne of God in heaven, + Thousands of children stand." + + +But, as her friend says, it is not possible to convey her manner, her +sweet tone and look. She said, "I wish I could go to heaven now, up +through this ceiling, now while I feel a little happy." "But, my dear +child, you cannot go to heaven in this way. You must die first; Jesus +died; we must all die; it is God's appointed way for us to get to +heaven." "Oh! I do not mind my sufferings, but I wish I was there now." + +Once she spoke rather impatiently, "I wish I could die, I wish I could +die." She was reminded, "Jesus says, 'If you love me, keep my +commandments;' and though you cannot obey God's will now in the same way +as if in health, you can still suffer all he appoints." She quickly +asked, "Will Jesus be angry if I am not patient? I will try, then, and +pray to him to make me patient." + +Satan for a short season seemed permitted to make trial of her faith and +love, and she struggled hard against his attacks. But the dear little +one was safe in the arms of her Good Shepherd, and none could pluck her +out of his hand. Her anxious prayers were heard and answered, and peace +was restored to her soul. Her brightened countenance required not the +addition of words to assure her friends of this, and yet they rejoiced +to hear her say, "I am quite happy; I know Jesus loves me, and I shall +soon see him." + +On the Sabbath, her last day on earth, she was very feeble, only able to +utter a single word at a time, but her heart was full of thankfulness +towards all who had cared for her, and especially to those who had +sought to comfort her in her last distress, begging her mother would +"always love them." + +At night, as her parents were watching beside her, she suddenly raised +herself, and, throwing her arms alternately round the neck of each, +seemed to take a last farewell. She was unable to speak, but to her +mother's inquiry, "Tell me once again, my child, are you quite happy?" +she replied by lifting up her hand, and pointing to heaven, while the +brightest smile lighted up her countenance. This was her last act of +consciousness. She lingered a few hours without any apparent suffering, +and then her happy spirit took its flight, and joined the blissful +company, that, having washed their robes and made them white in the +blood of the Lamb, are ever before the throne of God, rejoicing in their +Saviour's love. + +Sarah died at the age of eleven years, in August, 1848. + +Dear reader, before you close this book, ask, "Am I like Sarah G----? +Have I ever prayed to Jesus to wash away all my sins, and make my soul +quite white in his precious blood?" And then have you begged him to take +you to heaven when you die, that you may be happy with him for ever? If +not, do not wait another day, but entreat him now to give you his Holy +Spirit to teach you to love him. Remember, it is this kind Saviour who +calls you, who says, "Suffer the little children to come to me, and +forbid them not;" and who promises to gather the lambs with his arm, and +to carry them in his bosom. + +[Illustration] + + + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Jesus Says So, by Unknown + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JESUS SAYS SO *** + +***** This file should be named 10618.txt or 10618.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/0/6/1/10618/ + +Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, David +Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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