A CHRISTIAN mother used to ask her children every night what good they had done during the day. One night in answer to her question her little daughter said:
“At school this morning I found little Annie Gray crying. She had been absent for some time. I asked her what was the matter? Then she cried still more, so I couldn’t help putting my head on her neck, and crying with her. Her sobs got less, and presently she told me about her little baby brother, whom she loved so much; how sick he had been, and how much pain he had suffered, till he died. Then she hid her face in her book, and cried as if her heart would break. I could not help putting my face on the other page of the book and crying too, like she did. After a while she kissed me, and told me I had done her good. But, Mother, I don’t know how I did her good for I only cried with her!”
Nothing perhaps, apart from the love and sympathy of the Lord Jesus Himself, could have done that poor sorrowing little girl’s heart so much good as to have another little friend cry with her. In the Bible we read of how, when Mary and Martha’s brother Lazarus died, “Jesus wept” (John 11:3535Jesus wept. (John 11:35)). And so He tells us in His Word to “weep with them that weep.” Rom. 12:1515Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. (Romans 12:15).
ML-10/02/1960