JUST before the prayer meeting closed, and after singing the hymn commencing, “Now just a word for Jesus,” most unexpectedly the voice of a little boy was heard.
“O God,” he prayed, “we have just been singing, ‘Now just a word for Jesus.’ O Lord, you know, before I came here, I used to save my money to help to send Bibles to the little boys in China. O Lord, do bless them, and bless us. And, Lord, when the great day comes, may we all be ready. For Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen.”
At the commencement of the little fellow’s prayer I noticed his childish form, his bowed head, and clasped hands. The simple words we had been singing had been a reality to him, and had led him to say, “Just a word for Jesus” in a way he would never otherwise have done.
Now many of you, dear children, doubtless give your money to spread the glad tidings in foreign lands of Jesus and His love; but do you, on your knees say, “O Lord, do bless them, and bless us”?
I never thought so much of the little boys in China; of their deep spiritual need of the knowledge of Jesus as their Saviour, as I have done since I heard the simple, earnest prayer of my little friend, and I can, and do echo and re-echo it in my heart— “O Lord, do bless them, and bless us!”
There is still another petition of this prayer in which we need join also— “May we all be ready.”
ML 04/13/1924