IN CHINA years ago there was a little boy whose father and mother were Christians. Mr. and Mrs. Wong loved their little son and sought to bring him up for the Lord. Before meals he would close his eyes, hold his hands and give thanks for the food.
But one day the parents were made very sad when the little boy disappeared and no trace of him could be found.
Sometime later a Christian lady was visiting in a Chinese home. There was a man and his wife and a little boy. They told her they had no children of their own, but they had bought this little fellow from someone and they treated him just as if he were their own little son. But there was one thing that puzzled them, they said. Before he ate anything, he always closed his eyes, folded his hands and said some strange words.
Their visitor knew at once that the little fellow must have been brought up in a Christian home. Then she suddenly remembered that she had seen an ad telling of a lost boy in the Lost and Found column of a Christian paper. The parents of the boy lived in a town many miles away.
They made inquiries and soon it was determined that the little boy in the home where she visited was the lost child belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Wong. He had been stolen and sold.
When his new parents learned the truth, they took the little fellow back to Mr. and Mrs. Wong. What joy and happiness there was in their hearts when they received back their lost little son. How they thanked God for His goodness!
But it was because of the little boy’s faithfulness to his early Christian training — his giving thanks for the food that was used of God to bring about this happy reunion.
ML-01/18/1976