A LITTLE girl asked her mother one day to be allowed to go out and play in the fresh fallen snow. The permission was given and the child ran out into the open air. Sometime after, she came in again, and said, “Mother, I had to pray while I was outside.”
“Really! What did you pray?”
“When I saw the pure, white snow all around me, I remembered the snow prayer that I learned in the Sunday-school.”
“The snow prayer?” asked the mother smiling. “What do you mean by that?”
“O, mother, do you not know the beautiful snow prayer in the Bible? Surely you must know it. It is in the Psalms, and says, ‘WASH ME AND I SHALL BE WHITER THAN SNOW.’” (Psa. 51:77Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. (Psalm 51:7).)
The mother did not smile any more, but with a thankful heart, she pressed her child to her.
Have my dear young friends also prayed this prayer from the heart?
ML 04/28/1912