One morning a mother had to go out shopping, and left her little girl alone in the living room, to play with her dolls until she returned specially charging her not to touch the box. But little Alice was not noted for her obedience, and before long she was tired of the dolls, and thought,
“I wonder why mother said that I was not to touch her sewing box.” And then Satan whispered that it could not do any harm just to touch it.
So she climbed on a chair, and pulled the sewing box to the edge of the table and opened it, and looked in; but as she bent over it, her necklace became entangled with the key and dragged the box off the edge of the table, and down it fell on the floor! So all the pins, needles, spools, and tapes fell out and rolled about the room! O! there was such a litter, and poor Alice began to cry, and felt dreadfully sorry that she had touched it.
Just then the mother’s knock was heard at the door, and poor, miserable Alice hid under the table — why? Because she was so ashamed! So will some people be dreadfully ashamed before Jesus when He comes back!
ML 10/14/1946