Just look at these children! What a fine time they are having under the arbor which is rustic and elegant. They have had a good feast, and now they are eating some fruit and cake. They all seem so happy, and they look like children who are not poor, but evidently have homes and circumstances similar to this one.
No doubt, those who have prepared the feast, will soon have be bidden to a feast at the homes of their guests, so in that way they are repaid again. This may be all right at times, under certain circumstances, but we ever need to remember that scripture,
“When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.” Luke 14:13.
The poor children do not often have this opportunity, and we should be glad to take advantage of any opportunity to do good to all, in temporal things, and more than that, make such an opportunity the time to tell them about the Lord Jesus as their Saviour.
If we do not know the Lord Jesus as our own Saviour, we cannot be pointing others to Him; lint if we know Him, we can say, “He died for me,” or in the language of Scripture, say,
“THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.” Gal. 2:20.
May we who know the Lord Jesus, be faithful so that we may not miss an opportunity to speak for our blessed Lord, and so love our fellow companions; also that we may be glad to hand out tracts, that will point them to the Lord Jesus.
ML 08/27/1939