A HEARTLESS Hindu father placed his motherless baby girl on the side of the road and abandoned her. The helpless little thing was picked up and tenderly cared for by a Christian lady in a home where rescued children are taught the sweet story of the Saviour’s love. Now she is fourteen, a bright Christian girl.
During the recent famine in India, a number of sick and starved little girls were brought to that place. The mother of the home appealed to the older girls, asking each of them to adopt as their special care one of the famine stricken children. Among the first to respond to the call was the gentle Christian girl who was once herself a perishing outcast child. She did not choose a pretty attractive baby, but a poor emaciated one. Some of the other girls thoughtlessly said: “Why did you choose one like that? She looks like a monkey.”
The noble girl at once replied: “To take a poor sad-looking little child, instead of a pretty and attractive one, is love.”
Noble words! So like the love of the Lord Jesus who did not seek out the lovable, but the vile; not the righteous, but sinners. Think of this happy little foster mother with her little charge upon her knee, and of God’s beautiful words: “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us.” 1 John 4:1010Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10). When we were not good, not worthy of being loved or wanting to be loved, still He loved us. “While we were vet sinners. Christ died for us.” Rom. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
ML-11/13/1966