A Mother's Lesson
Clerical Anecdotes
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish…


A young soldier was shot on the battlefield, and dragged by a comrade aside to die. He shut his eyes, and all his past life flashed before him. It seemed but an instant of time. He looked forward and saw eternity, like a great gulf, ready to swallow him up, with his sins as so many weights sinking him deeper and deeper. Suddenly a lesson, which his pious mother taught him when a little boy at her knee, stood before him in shining letters. It was a lesson he heard repeated again and again and again; she was never tired of imprinting it on his memory before she died; it was her only legacy. In the gaiety of life he had forgotten it. He had lost his hold on it, but it had never quite lost its hold on him; and now, in the hour of peril, it threw out to him a rope of mercy. What was it? "God so loved the world," etc. He caught the rope; it seemed let down from heaven. "Lord, I believe," he cried; "save me, or I perish!" Till he died, a few hours after, he said little but this one prayer: "Lord, I believe; save me, or I perish!" a prayer never uttered by the penitent soul in vain.

(Clerical Anecdotes.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

WEB: For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.




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