Every Sunday afternoon, after the morning service at their church, the Pastor and his
eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out Gospel Tracts.

This particular Sunday afternoon, as it came time for the Pastor and his son to go to the
streets with their tracts, it was very cold outside
as well as pouring down rain. The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said--- "OK dad, I'm ready."

His Pastor dad asked---"Ready for what ?"
"Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together
and go out." Dad responds, "Son, it's very cold
outside and it's pouring down rain." The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking "But Dad, aren't people still going to Hell, even
though it's raining?"

Dad answers, "Son, I am not going out in this weather." Despondently, the boy ask "Dad, can I go? Please?" His father hesitated for a moment then said, "Son, you can go. Here are the tracts, be careful son." "Thanks Dad! " And with that, he was off and out into the rain.

This eleven year old boy walked the streets
of the town going door to door and handing
everybody he met in the street a Gospel Tract.
After two hours of walking in the rain, he was
soaking, bone-chilled wet and down to his
VERY LAST TRACT.

He stopped on a corner and looked for
someone to hand a tract to, but the streets
were totally deserted. Then he turned toward
the first home he saw - and started up the
sidewalk to the front door and rang the door
bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered.
He rang it again and again, but still no one
answered. He waited but still no answer.

Finally, this eleven year old trooper turned
to leave, but something stopped him. Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front porch.

He rang again, and this time the door slowly
opened. Standing in the doorway was a very
sad-looking elderly lady. She softly asked
" What can I do for you son?" With radiant eyes
and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy
said, "Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but
I just want to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES
LOVE YOU, and I came to give you my very last
Gospel Tract which will tell you all about JESUS
and His great LOVE."

With that, he handed her his last tract, and
turned to leave. She called to him as he departed. "Thank you, son! And God Bless You!"
Well, the following Sunday morning in church
Pastor Dad was in the pulpit. As the service began, he asked, " Does anybody have a testimony or want to say anything?"

Slowly, in the back row of the church, an
elderly lady stood to her feet. As she began
to speak, a look of glorious radiance came from
her face as she, "No one in this church knows me. I've never been here before.

You see, before last Sunday I was not a Christian. My husband passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live. So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home.

I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the
roof, then stood on the chair and fastened the
other end of the rope around my neck.
Standing on that chair, so lonely and brokenhearted I was about to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, "I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away.

"I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell
seemed to get louder and more insistent, and
then the person ringing also started knocking
loudly. I thought to myself again, "Who on earth
could this be?! Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me."

I loosened the rope from my neck and started
for the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder. When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life.

His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you!
And the words that came from his mouth caused
my heart, that had long been dead, TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, "Ma'am, I just came to tell you that JESUS REALLY DOES LOVE YOU."

Then he gave me this Gospel Tract that I now
hold in my hand. As the little angel disappeared
back out into the cold and rain, I closed my door
and read slowly every word of this Gospel Tract.
Then I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more.

You see, "I am now a Happy Child of the KING
and since the address of your church was on the
back of this Gospel Tract, I have come here to
personally say THANK YOU TO God's little angel
who came just in the nick of time and, by so
doing, spared my soul from eternity in hell."

There was not a dry eye in the church. And as
shouts of praise and honor to THE KING resounded off the very rafters of the building, Pastor Dad  descended from the pulpit to the front pew where the little angel was seated. He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably. Probably no church has had a more glorious moment, And probably this
universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love & honor for his son...

Except for One. This Father also allowed His
Son to go out into a cold and dark world. He
received His Son back with joy unspeakable,
and as all of heaven shouted praises and honor
to The King, The Father sat His beloved Son
on a throne far above all principality and power and every name that is named.

~Author Unknown~