HOW thankful we all ought to be for the “Rain from heaven”! I dare say you have known children who wished it might be always fine weather; but, if they had their wish, they would, be in want of food. I have read that there are parts of Australia where there has been no rain for about four years, and the land is becoming so barren that the sheep are dying. These children in our picture, live in a more favored land. They have been in the field when a shower came on, and they took refuge under the wheat-stack. Now they are looking out to see if the rain is over. Let us remember to give thanks to God for the rain, without which nothing would grow.
ML 10/05/1902