She was a little orphan far away in India. She was greatly afraid of being sold into slavery and fall into the hands of bad people.
Therefore, she begged the missionary, who was just at the place, to take her along to the mission station. But the missionary was sorry to have to tell her,
“We have neither room to take you in, nor money to enlarge our building.”
Kara looked very sad, she was too proud to cry. Upon leaving, the missionary said, hoping to comfort her, “Pray to God that He may give us a place for you, and I will do the same.”
“Upon reaching his home, he found a letter with a sum of money enclosed. This encouraged him so much that he sent a messenger to fetch little Kara. The distance he had to go was great, but he returned already in the afternoon with Kara. The missionary was greatly surprised, but simply said,
“Ay, we both prayed to God, and so I started out right away,” and that was the reason the servant returned so soon.
Does not the faith of this child, whose parents had been idolaters, put us to shame? The Lord loves to have little ones tell Him everything, and come to Him with all their troubles, be they ever so small, whether it is a big dog on the way to school that makes you afraid, or baby brother is sick, or a piece of money is lost. The Lord Jesus says,
ML 02/10/1946