The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-02-25
SUNNY Rra0iull.
HOW TO COME TO TO JESUS,

Many children are pcrplexed when told
To go /" the Saviour aud obtain for,iye.
ness for SIN. They don't comprehend
no" they can go to An unseen belng-or
how they can love II being they have new,
er known personality. The following .to.
~, 10y one of our female writers, NAV pos
sibly relieve their embarrassment
There WAS once u child WHO was sepa
rated from his papa and WHO was SO well
able to Keep hmm in his MUD that it oh.
so'"d hlm many a time for the sorrow of
absence. His name was Flank, and he
MAS born il that hot country on tie con-
uncnt OF ASA, called India. He had no
mamma; and three Irt'e sister, who had
once played with Frank, were buried ON
"I s'Sht, and their souls were 9 ne I" the
frIend OF little children : so that Frank
WAS the only one left To his father. am,
very dearly did the child and his father
love one another. He had no prayfrllrw>
OF his own age, but he dad net nced them.
lie was a qnre, boy; and from his III.
health he did not love rou"h play. Lui
Was always happy to listen to the STORE,
which his father rol'l him, or sit bv his side
"h'Ie be wrote, looking up crery now aud
then I" his face, but never disturbing him
toy talking or noise. He told his papa all
his thoughts, and bid nothing from him
and wisely ard tsnderly did the good pa
rent tram his little ore, irving TO win hun
t" 'or" the Saviour, and to give bis younp
heart TO him.
Bnt n" care or love could make the ro
scS bloom in Franks p,Le checks, and soon
the d""i"r said lhat II the hos did 10,
Iea'" ind'a i.s would die. There are hut
few ErLi.h Children who can bear In,
neat Of Calcutta, the town in which
Franks fs,ler lived, and it WAS dcciden
At las, that he should 60 to England to
be educated. The da, came for INN rr
say farewell 10 hi. It.,i,an home aud his
dear papa, who could n"i leave his bust
ie>s At Calcutta, but who loved his child
too we'll 10 wish TO keep him in 80 unheal.
Thy n country. 4 lady who WAS going
t" EnGI,nI took charge OF Frank. but who
had ch'idren OF her own, and both she
and they thought INN II tr,ng. du,, boy
so that he WINS left much alon. Turing the
voyage. For some time he WAS very sad
n used TO sit aud cry AS he thought of
his dear papa, and the long time that
r'usi pass before thew could meet again.
and It seemed TO him that il would bc
hard work to be n good boy, now that he
had no father ncsr 10 warn him.
There WAS an old ,ailo, on board tie
ship, "ho plt'ed the little pale chlld, and
he would often 81: and tell him stories.
and explain To him the many wonderful
sights Of the great deep So, over which
they mere voyaging; and soon Frank told
the good old sailor Of his trouble. md how
he thought that h" could never, never he
HAPPY, lie feared never good agar, be
cause he had no raps to teach him. But
the sailor told him that he was wrong. for
II lie did truly love his father ne might 90
to hun IN thought, snd sImo,t fancy him
near AL the day long. He might do eve
rvthing he had tsugh, hun, iust AS if he
Mere present, never forgetting the PRAYER
aud text Of scripture morning and evening
and trying also TO conquer selfish discon.
tented tempers. Then he might wIite
down his ih"nghts, he told him his tenn.
ITO and hs trials and when he did
THIS, and thought oil his absent papa, he
wound almost feel that 10 WAS within him
not his tody, indeed, but better than the
body, hi heart and soul.
And Frsnk found the sailors words
true, Tor sometimes during that long yoy
aye the lntls boys thoughts were so much
WI his fsther, aud he lived So truly as
u he "ers with him and saw him that he
hsgan to enjoy what he called his hear,
Wits to indl,; and he proved that those
who really love. il is needfuI TO be with
me another in order to enjoy intercourse.
Thus you see how li,tle rra"k WAS con
'tantly going to his father MS truly as if
I've had run into his open arms aud most.
Ing in his loving Bosom.
Just so may You co 10 Jesus. lie i,
not to be seen with your eyes but you
know thst in his spirit he is always pres
eht, and that he is ia heaven To hear you
pray. and 10 watch over and love you.-
kead OF him in the Bible, and ~ you read
think OF his great love to you in dying
ON The crors, aud let your hear 90 to HIM;
ahd pray that he would make YOU his
dear child, and not only suffer YOU to
core o him on earth. but take Won.
whenever yon may leave il, TO his home
in heaven.
A pkorn Gnrp, l.