IF the children in our home Sunday-schools knew how greatly their old tickets would be valued by these little, barefooted, bareheaded, children, I am sure they would save them, and send them on.
It would be hard for those in America to picture to themselves the beaming faces with which tracts are received, or the joy and eagerness of the children, and also of the women, and even of the men, when a picture card is produced. Walking over the hills a few days ago, we had the pleasure of distributing some of the colored text cards to several children, How gladly they were received, as were the tracts by their elders. I remember one tall, intelligent looking man, leading a very small cow, who continued reading his tract as long as he was in sight.
Descending to the road which would lead us home, we were attracted by shouts from the hilltop, and saw a number of ragged urchins hastening after us. If it had been in the homeland, one might have thought they were calling “Stop, sir; stop,” but I am more inclined to think, being in China, it was, “Kung chai, kung chai!” (“A picture card, a picture card!”)
It was a great disappointment to the laddies, and also to ourselves, to find that the cards had come to an end; and very evident, tears appeared in the eyes of the last comer, a small boy of perhaps eight years, who came panting up some distance behind the older ones.”
Should any of our dear young readers desire to send their old Sunday-school tickets and reward cards to the poor little children in China, if you will mail them to “Bible Truth Depot, 1112 N. Taylor Ave., St, Louis, Mo.” they will at once be sent to Mr. and Mrs. Willis in China, and they will gladly give them out to the little boys and girls who have very little to brighten their lives, and have little opportunity to hear of the Lord Jesus, and His wondrous love. Let us think more of others, and what good we can do them. Think also how much the Lord has done for us, and the privileges He has bestowed upon us, in making known to us that our sins are put away by His precious blood, and that He is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
ML-05/02/1920