He spoke about how the eye of God looks us through and through,
searching right down into our hearts, and seeing every bad thought there;
and then he spoke of God's book, in which all about us is written down, and
of God's hand, which writes all down in that book. He said that when he
was a child, and thought of God's book, it made him tremble all over to
remember what must be written there about _him_; and then, speaking very
earnestly to the little scholars, he said, "Think of your name at the top
of a page in that book, and then, one after another--none left out or
forgotten--every naughty word you have spoken, every naughty thing your
hands have ever done, all written on that page!"
When he had spoken for some time in this way, Ernest's uncle George said
that if any of the children to whom he was speaking really did think
of this dreadful page, and did not try to hide away from God, but went
straight to Him about it, and said, "O God, I am such a sinner!" that cry
would be written down there too. And we must never forget that because of
the work Jesus "finished" when on earth, it is righteous for God to blot
out the whole black list of every one who "comes to the Father" by Jesus.
I do not know who had told Jack about God's book, but one day when he was
alone with his lady, he began to speak to her very earnestly. He told her
that he knew that if he should die, like those people who had died of the
fever, he would be put in the grave, but that he would not stay there for
ever.
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