MAY CHUNG was a little Chinese girl, just seven years old. Her father was an opium smoker and spent most of his money on the terrible habit. As a result his poor wife and family often did not have enough to eat nor proper clothes to wear. Then too the opium made the father cross and he often treated his wife and children very cruelly. So little May had a very sad home life.
One day a missionary found May Chung and invited her to come to the mission school. Her mother said she could go.
At the mission school the little girl learned many new things, but best of all she learned about Jesus. She found out that He loved her, that He had died to save boys and girls, and all people who will trust Him, and wants to make them happy. Little May Chung scarcely knew what it was to be happy but one day asked the Lord Jesus to come into her heart and take her sins away. She wanted to belong to Him.
Now the Lord Jesus never turned any one away and so May Chung came to know Him as her Saviour that day. What joy filled her heart! When she went home she told her brothers and sisters what had happened. They too wanted to know this wonderful Saviour and be happy. They were weary of their sins and wanted Jesus to take those sins away. The mother too got interested and then one day she accepted the Lord Jesus into her heart.
After that Mother and children prayed earnestly for poor father. He had long been weary of his sins and the dread opium habit, and the day came when he too came to Jesus and was wonderfully saved. The Lord took away his desire for opium and at last the home was a happy one. God had used little May Chung in blessing to the whole family.
ML-09/08/1974