Part 33 (2/2)
A LITTLE SLAVE'S FAITH.
A missionary in India, pa.s.sing one day through the school room, observed a little boy engaged in prayer, and overheard him say, ”O, Lord Jesus, I thank thee for sending big s.h.i.+p into my country and wicked men to steal me and bring me here, that I might hear about Thee and love Thee. And now, Lord Jesus, I have one great favor to ask Thee. Please to send wicked men with another big s.h.i.+p, and let them catch my father and my mother, and bring them to this country, that they may hear the missionaries preach and love Thee.”
The missionary in a few days after saw him standing on the sea-sh.o.r.e, looking very intently as the s.h.i.+ps came in. ”What are you looking at, Tom?” ”I am looking to see if Jesus Christ answers prayer.”
For two years he was to be seen day after day watching the arrival of every s.h.i.+p. One day, as the missionary was viewing him, he observed him capering about and exhibiting the liveliest joy.
”Well, Tom, what gives you so much joy?” ”_O, Jesus Christ answer prayer. Father and mother come in that s.h.i.+p_,” which was actually the case.
A GOOD REASON FOR PRAYING.
A little girl about four years of age being asked, ”Why do you pray to G.o.d?” replied: ”Because I know He hears me, and I love to pray to Him.”
”But how do you know He hears you?”
Putting her little hand to her heart, she said, ”I know He does, because there is something _here_ that tells me so.”
MY HEART TALKED.
A child six years old, in a Sunday school, said: ”When we kneel down in the school-room to pray, it seems as if my heart talked.”
WHY, SIR, I BEGGED.
A little boy, one of the Sunday school children in Jamaica, called upon the missionary and stated that he had lately been very ill, and in his sickness often wished his minister had been present to pray with him.
”But, Thomas,” said the missionary, ”I hope you prayed.” ”Oh, yes, sir.”
”Did you repeat the collect I taught you?” ”I prayed.” ”Well, but how did you pray?” ”Why, sir, I begged.”
A LITTLE CHILD'S PRAYER FOR HEALING.
A very little child, who had but recently learned to talk, and the daughter of a Home missionary, had been for weeks troubled with a severe cough, which was very severe in its weakness upon her. At last her father said to her, ”Daughter, ask Jesus, the good Lord, to heal you.”
Putting up her little hands as she lay in bed, she said, ”_Dear Jesus, will oo please to cure me, and do please tell papa what to give me_.”
The father, who was listening, thought several times of ”_syrup of ipecac_” but did not connect it immediately with the prayer. At last the thought came so often before him, that he felt, ”Well, it will do no harm, perhaps this is what the Lord wants me to give her.” He procured it, administered it, and in three hours the little child's cough had wholly ceased, and she was playing on the floor with the other children.
A most singular feature is the fact that the same medicine was administered at other times and had no effect in relief.
THE BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING
”_Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble_.”
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