MANY, if not most of the little readers of this magazine, can go to Sunday School without fear of displeasing their parents. Probably very few fear that they will be punished for going.
But there are some children who do not have the wonderful privilege that is yours. Their parents do not love Jesus and they do not want their children to hear anything about Him. Let me tell you about one of these.
She was a little girl nine years old, and lived in a country called Southern Rhodesia, which is far away in the Southern part of Africa.
Some missionaries had gone down there from America and started a school for the native children.
The little girl in our story went to this school to learn to read and write and spell. But she was taught about Jesus, too, and she learned to love Him and believe on Him.
This made her mother angry and she took the child out of school. Still she slipped away to school whenever she could. Her mother did all in her power to destroy the child's faith in Jesus, but all her efforts failed.
Finally she took her out in the woods and tied her to a tree and left her there all night.
Next morning a school boy came past, and seeing her tied, asked if she had been there all night.
"Yes", she said.
"Were you not afraid of the wild beasts?" he asked.
"No", she said, "I saw their eyes in the darkness, but I remembered how God saved Daniel from the lions, and so I was not afraid."
And when the boy looked he found tracks, where a lion had gone round and round her, but could not touch her.
We should thank God very often for giving His beloved Son to die for us, and we should thank Him also that we are allowed to read and learn more about Jesus, both at home and in the Sunday School.
Messages of God’s Love 1/3/1932