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A FREE EDUCATION OR A FREE SALVATION

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In the middle of December last, a young Arab boy was given a good deal of publicity in the daily papers. His name is Mohammed Huzman and he is eleven years old, and he belongs to British Somaliland, which stretches along the Gulf of Aden, south of the Red Sea. He secretly stowed away on a ship called “Alcyone Fortune,” at the port of Aden, before it left for Scotland. When the ship arrived at Greenock, he was examined by officials and gave as his reason for doing what he did, that he had heard Scottish education was free. Although one or two persons, on hearing the story offered to take him to their homes, he was refused permission to land, and was later shipwrecked on the same ship off the Mull of Kintyre on the south-west coast of Scotland and was safely taken ashore in a life-boat with the rest of those on board and landed at Cambeltown. There the story of the little Arab boy ends for the present.

This boy of the Middle East was prepared to part with his native land and risk much trouble for the sake of a free education. But you have heard of an infinitely more valuable thing than free education. You have that already. You have been privileged many times to hear of a free salvation, through Jesus, of whom it has been declared, that He is “a Prince and a Saviour.” You need not go to the coasts of Africa to seek this free salvation provided for poor, lost sinners, inasmuch as it is set forth before you in your native land, your town, your village, your home, in and by means of the Bible (the Word of God), and also by preaching of the Gospel of salvation in some places. And more than that, every sinner made sensible of his or her need of salvation (free and sufficient) and who comes to Christ Jesus for it, penitently and believingly, will not be cast out, will not be refused or turned away by Christ, as the Arab boy was refused permission to land on the shores of Scotland, to realize the ambition of his young heart for a free education.

Yet it is true that many boys and girls and young men and women in Scotland, will endure much discomfort to attain vain and wordly objectives upon which their natural hearts are set; and at the sametime will not even take the trouble of opening the Bible to read one verse itself. These things ought not so to be. “His blessed and gracious face, seek ye continually” (Ps. cv. 4 Metrical version), and thus set an example to little Arab boys. Y.P.M.

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A FREE EDUCATION OR A FREE SALVATION

Bekijk de hele uitgave van woensdag 1 juni 1949

The Banner of Truth | 16 Pagina's