A missionary told a story of four young African girls who had come to know and love the Lord Jesus as their Saviour. Now they wanted others to know and love Him, too. All alone they had built a little mud hut with a thatched roof where they could have gospel meetings.
During one service the missionary noticed with horror that the four girls were sitting close to an old woman who was a leper. The missionary knew the girls were in great danger of contracting the dread disease, so after the service he spoke to the four girls and explained to them the danger in sitting too near the old leper lady.
“Sir, we know,” said one, “but no one wants Sisi to be near them, so we asked her to sit with us. We thought it would be what Jesus would have done.”
ML-11/28/1976