Jesus Christ loves
poor Jack. Good Jesus--die--save poor bad Jack."
There are some things which are told us in the Bible which Jack did not
know. He thought that when the last day was come, all who were in their
graves would be raised, and all stand before God; he was not afraid when he
thought of that great day, because he knew that "perfect love" which casts
out fear, but it would have been very sweet to him to have known that the
Lord Jesus is coming for His own, and that at His call "the dead in Christ
shall rise first," and then all the living people who are "Christ's at His
coming" shall be changed, and all together be "caught up to meet the Lord
in the air, and so be for ever with the Lord."
Jack is one of those who have "fallen asleep in Jesus"; he died when he was
a little more than nineteen, and the shamrocks, which he loved because he
was an Irish boy, have long been growing green upon his lowly grave; but
when the Lord calls His own to meet Him in the air, the deaf and dumb boy,
just because he is _His_ Jack, will be sure to hear that awakening voice;
although he never heard any voice on earth; and to answer to the call.
But I must tell you a little more about his short life. When he was
fourteen, his mistress left Clifton and moved to a very pretty house in the
country, and there Jack was given a little room over the coach-house to be
quite his own, so that he might go there to write or draw, when his work
was done.
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