When they came out of the room after a time I saw that my eldest daughter had been weeping. I called her to me, and said: ‘Nellie, what is the trouble?’ ‘Oh, father,’ she said, ‘after we went into the room I made the prayer that mother taught me to make.’ Then, naming her little brother, He made the prayer that mother taught him. Little Susie didn’t use to pray when mother took us in there because mother thought she was too young. But when we got through she made a prayer of her own. I could not but weep when I heard her pray. She put her little hands together and closed her eyes and said: ‘O God, you have taken away my dear mamma, and I have no mamma now to pray for me. Won’t you bless me and make me good just as mamma was, for Jesus Christ’s sake, Amen.’” “Little Susie gave evidence of having given her young heart to God before she was four years old. For sixteen years she has been at work as a missionary among the heathen.”
Let us remember that God can use these little children. Dr. Milnor was brought up a Quaker, became a distinguished lawyer in Philadelphia, and was a member of Congress for three successive terms. Returning to his home on a visit during his last Congressional session, his little daughter rushed upon him exclaiming. “Papa! papa! do you know I can read?” “No?” he said, “let me hear you!” She opened her little Bible and read, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.” It was an arrow in her father’s heart, It came to him as a solemn admonition. “Out of the mouth of babes,” God’s Spirit moved within him. He was driven to his closet, and a friend calling upon him found he had been weeping over the Dairyman’s Daughter. Although only forty years of age, he abandoned politics and law for the ministry of the Gospel. For thirty years he was the beloved rector of St. George’s Church, in Philadelphia, the predecessor of the venerated Dr. Tyng.
Dear mothers and fathers, let us in simple faith bring our children to Christ. He is the same to-day as when He took them in His arms and said: “Suffer the little children to come unto Me and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
I may not do much with all my care,
But I surely may bless a few;
The loving Jesus will give to me,
Some work of love to do;
I may wipe the tears from some weeping eyes,
I may bring the smile again
To a face that is weary and worn with care,