PERHAPS some of my readers do not value much their Sunday school—one thing is certain that on a fine Sunday afternoon there are not so many children present as there ought to be. But I want to tell you about a boy who did value his Sunday school.
He was employed in a pious family to do some housework, and on Sundays he was encouraged to go to the Sunday school, and he soon began to love both his teacher and the school. But alas! after a time his services were not further needed, and he was sent home to his mother who lived in a village five miles off.
But there was no Sunday school there, and the boy felt it so much that he actually walked the five miles there, and five miles back, to attend the school. At length had weather set in, and then a ten-mile walk was too much for the boy. But he did not give up his love for the school, and quaintly suggested that his teacher should get married and employ him in his house, so that he should be able to attend school.
The teacher, however, hit upon another plan, and said to the boy.
“Why, you must get up a school where you live, and I will come and teach it.”
The boy was overjoyed. It was a new thought to him, but after a little reflection he exclaimed,
“I’ll try it.”
It was not long before the boy brought word that he had his school ready—or had promises from children to attend—and begged the teacher to come the next Sunday. The teacher went, and to his astonishment found a school ready of sixty scholars.
Now, was not this a zealous Sunday-school scholar? We tell you this, that it may stir you up to value your Sunday school more. And if our boys or girls who love the Lord Jesus are situated as this boy was, God may use them to do as he did.
ML 03/19/1922