Wash day is always a toilsome one, and well it is if strength and endurance are possessed, so that its labors can be gone through without too much exhaustion.
The temper is often tried on such occions, and the Christian needs mercy and grace for the time of need, when this work has to be undertaken; But with Christ there is a full supply, as the following story shows.
Susie W—had lost her father. Her mother was quite an invalid, and as Susie was the eldest daughter of a large family, the burden of responsibility and work fell almost entirely upon her.
I was visiting her mother one day. Susie had been brought to know and trust the Saviour only a few months previously.
Mrs. W—showed me some lines that her daughter had written, referring to a hard wash-day. I asked permission to copy them and pass them on. Remember, that they were written by one who was but “a babe” in the family of God, only a few months old!
This “looking away to Jesus” is a wonderful thing if it enables a poor tired girl with a headache to finish up a hard day’s’s washing with “a glad and grateful song,” it must be well worth trying! And so it is. Heart occupation with Christ in glory is a real thing; and it works.
ML 03/30/1941