But when her mother told him how the child's prayer, and her daily expressions of confidence, had cheered and comforted her during those days of trial, he understood it all, and rejoiced that the good seed sown in the young heart had already brought forth fruit.
The words of Jesus are—
"Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein."
May this true story of a little child's prayers, faith, and patient waiting, be the means of carrying comfort to some weary and heavy-laden soul, longing, but fearing to take God at His word, and to lay hold on those precious promises which are all "Yea and amen in Christ Jesus."
[A WITNESS FOR THE SABBATH.]
TWO gentlemen were talking together one evening about the inestimable value of the Sabbath as a gift to mankind.
Both had led busy lives, and though one of them had long since retired from active commercial pursuits, he was incessantly occupied, not in making money, but in doing all that he could to promote the welfare and happiness of others.
"Better to wear out than rust out," was this man's motto, and his clear complexion and the bright expression on his countenance, together with his active step, showed that his labour of love, instead of making him older, was helping to preserve his vigorous health.
The younger of the two was still in the very prime of life, and was the owner of an immense manufacturing concern, which constantly taxed all his powers, both of mind and body. Yet he, too, found leisure to look around amongst his toiling hands, and to think of and carry into effect plans both for their moral improvement and bodily comfort.