ever heard
The message of salvation
From God's own Holy Word.

"I love to tell the story;
For those who know it best,
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the rest.
And when in scenes of glory,
I sing the new, new song,
'Twill be the old, old story,
That I have loved so long.'"

The last note died away, and for a moment there was silence in the room.
Edward lay gazing into his wife's eyes with a look of sad, yearning
tenderness.

"O Ned! why, why do you look so at me?" she asked, with a sudden burst
of tears, and dropping her face on the pillow beside his. He had been
holding her hand while she sang; he kept it still, and, laying his other
one gently on her head, "Zoe, my darling," he said, in tones tremulous
with emotion, "it is the one longing desire of my heart that you may
learn the full sweetness of that old, old story. O love! sometimes the
thought, 'What if my precious wife should miss heaven, and our union be
only for time, and not for eternity,' sends so keen a pang to my heart,
that I know not how to endure it."

"O Ned! surely I shall not miss it," she said, with a sob: "my father
and mother were such good Christians; and you, my own husband, are so
good too."

"Ah, my darling!" he sighed, "that hope is but as a spider's web. Do you
not remember that passage in Ezekiel, 'Though these three men, Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by
their righteousness, saith the Lord God'? And it is repeated again and
again, 'Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the
Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but
deliver their own souls by their righteousness.' Zoe, dear, no
righteousness but the imputed righteousness of Christ can save the soul
from death. He offers it to you, love; and will you continue to reject
it?"

"Ned," she sobbed, "I wish I had it: I often think I would be a
Christian if I only knew how, but I don't."

"Do you not?" he asked, in some surprise. "I will try to make it plain.
Jesus offers you a full and free salvation, purchased by what he has
done and suffered in your stead, that 'God might be just, and yet the
justifier of him who believeth in Jesus.'

"'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.'

"He bids you come to him, and says, 'Him that cometh to me, I will in
no wise cast out.'"

"But how shall I come?" she asked. "Tell me just how."

"How do you come to me,