In Remembrance Of
Me!
"The one who comes to
Me
I will by no means cast out."
John 6: 37
Church of the Holy
Trinity in Sunderland, England,
is a brick church with a clock tower. It’s no longer a
church, but organizers are preserving the building.
During renovations, a paper was found stuffed
down one of the pews. It was written 125 years
ago by a boy who was thirteen and it read:
"Dear friend, whoever finds this paper, think of
William Elliott who had two months and two weeks
and four days on the 11 of August 1897. Whoever
you
are that finds this paper don’t tear it up or throw
it away… keep it in remembrance of me, W. Elliott…
I was the leading boy of this choir."
William was orphaned when his father was washed
overboard on a ship. William was anxiously counting
down the days
until he would be discharged from an
orphanage. He wrote the note, apprehensive of being
cast out on his own.
How many are fearful of being cast out on our
own! But
the Lord will never cast us out. Calvary
changes everything, and in Him we will never be
abandoned, orphaned, or forgotten.
"Christ never changes,
never leaves us, never
forgets us."
John Todd