On the front steps of a plain little cottage, one of a number rented by humble but respectable laborers, three small girls could be seen of an evening peering into the pages of an old Bible with pictures.
The village doctor, who was an earnest Christian man, passed by one evening and saw the children sitting there with the big Book on their knees. Anxious to see what they were doing, he stopped and spoke to them a few minutes. He told the three little ones of some of his own children, of how they gained prizes for answering Bible Questions. These answers they found in a large old Bible just like the one the three had before them.
“I’ll tell you what,” said he; “I will give each of you a nice prize, if you will find me answers to three simple Bible Questions which I’ll give you.” The three small girls were delighted and promised to try their best to give the doctor the correct answers.
The next day the doctor handed each of them a paper on which were written three Bible Questions. The three of them set to work and in a very short time they might have been seen tripping up the sidewalk toward town to the doctor’s house with their answers. Faithful to his promise the doctor presented to each small searcher a nice book of “Stories and Pictures,” and many a happy evening they spent poring over the pages.
But this was not all. The doctor became much interested in his three young friends, and, finding there was no Sunday school nearby to which they could go, he told his daughter who was an earnest Christian girl. She gladly consented to begin a Sunday afternoon class for little boys and girls in that area. I need not tell you all that followed. There were many of the young folks of that small village who heard then for the first time of a Saviour’s love, and had their hearts won for Him.
Has your heart been won yet for the Saviour, dear reader?
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3:2020Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20).
ML 10/03/1965