It was in the early days of our country when the Indians fought savage battles with the white man. On a Sunday morning a large congregation consisting of fathers, mothers and children, were gathered for prayer in a little chapel in a town in Florida. A band of Indians might have been seen stealing through the woods in the direction of the little building. They had planned a surprise attack on the people and almost had them at their mercy.
One of the Indians, however, crept forward and peeped in through a window. There he saw all the people on their knees praying to God. He heard them ask Him to protect and watch over them.
Silently the warrior crept back to the rest of the band and this is what he told them. “The white men are talking to the Great Spirit, and asking Him to help them and protect them. If we kill the white people, the Great Spirit will be very angry with us,” he said. His brother Indians agreed, and they all quietly disappeared into the forests.
The white men learned from one of those Indians who was captured later what they had planned to do that Sunday morning. Everyone knew that God had watched over and protected them that day.
ML 02/11/1968