Will you be there?
James Milton Black was a musician and a Sunday school teacher who was a very devoted Christian. One day, while walking through an alley, he saw a very poor teenage girl who was wearing raggedy clothes and seemed to be in really bad shape. She was also the daughter of a drunkard . Out of the compassion of his heart and his love for the lost, James Milton invited her to his Sunday school class and she started attending. James, as he did the roll call on his class, encouraged every student to recite a Bible verse after their name was called. One day, as he did his roll call, he didn't hear the girl answer which made him be concerned for her. He decided to go see what was wrong with her and came to find out that she was very sick. Immediately, he called his own doctor to check on her, and the doctor diagnosed her with pneumonia, which in those days was pretty much an incurable disease. Antibiotics did not exist at the time. The very fact that the girl was absent, and obviously did not ...