Seeing Danny and Joe saved within a few years gave answer to more prayers. Danny was six years old when he began to question us about how to accept the Lord. I explained as easily as I could, not thinking he was old enough to make the decision. One service not too long after, Bro. C.M. Fields was offering the invitation at the end of the service, and down to the front Danny went as big as you please. We were so afraid he didn't understand what he was doing, and we prayed with him and talked after we got home from church. We told him we'd like for him to wait about being baptized for a year, and if he still felt he had truly accepted Christ at the end of that year, he could be baptized. On the day the year was up he told us one Sunday morning, "My year is up and I still know I'm saved and I want to be baptized." So, joyously we let him. "Except ye become as little children," Jesus said. It is so simple and they are so easy to believe.
One night in a revival meeting the preacher preached a sermon on "hell". I could see that Harold Joe was taking it all in. When the invitation was given and our heads were bowed I could not help but lift mine to look at Joe. He was slipping out into the isle and down to the front to accept Christ as his Savior. I had prayed many times since that time that if Joe went forward that night for "fire insurance" and didn't experience real salvation, that the Lord would let him know and let me know.
Read the answer to that prayer in the next post - "A Son Goes to War"
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