“SHE NEVER GAVE ME A CHANCE.”
By C. H. Spurgeon
ONE Sunday night I was urging Christian parents to let there be no delay in speaking to their children about their souls. I said: Do it to-night, if you have not done it already. You mothers may say, “My children will be in bed and asleep when I get home.” Never mind, go up stairs and wake them, and talk to them about their souls. A mother—this I know to be true—went home, and her little girl was in bed and asleep. She woke her, and said, “Jane, I have not spoken to you about your soul. The pastor has been exhorting to-night, and saying that if you were asleep you should be awakened.” Then said Jane, “Mother, I have often thought that you did not speak to me about Christ, but I have known Him these two years.” The mother stood convicted. She brought her daughter around on Monday, and said, “Let this dear girl be baptized and join the church.” I said to her, “Why did you not tell your mother?” “Well,” said she, “You know mother never seemed to come to the subject; she never gave me a chance.” Then the mother said, “Quite right; I have never been to my children what I ought to have been, but, please God, there shall never be another child of mine that shall steal a march on her mother, and find out Christ without her knowing it.” God graciously rebuked that mother.—C. H. Spurgeon.