George was a little fellow and had been given a few pennies to spend all for himself. However, instead of spending it for a treat, George bought some gospel tracts. These he placed in a box of gifts to be sent to a friend who was a missionary in India.
When the box arrived, it so happened that the son of an Indian chief was visiting at the missionary’s home. The missionary’s wife had taught the boy to read, so she gave him one of George’s tracts.
The boy read the tract. God spoke to his heart, and he became a true Christian. When he left for his home up in the mountains in India, he took this tract and others with him and read them to his own people. Some of them turned to God and gave up their idols.
So like the little boy’s five loaves and two fishes that the Lord used to feed five thousand, so God took little George’s pennies and fed a multitude with the Bread of Life.
Boys and girls who know the Lord as their Saviour, no matter how young they are, can serve Him and be a blessing to others. Scripture says, “Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Cor. 15:5858Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:58).)
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