ust trusting. I
stumbled over it three years and found it all in trusting;" and the
three weeks I was there she led more souls to Christ than anybody else.
If I got a difficult case I would send it to her. Oh, my friends, won't
you trust Him? Let us put our trust in Him.
Mrs. Moody Teaching her Child.
There was a time when our little boy did not like to go to church, and
would get up in the morning and say to his mother, "What day is
to-morrow?" "Tuesday." "Next day?" "Wednesday." "Next day?" "Thursday;"
and so on, till he came to the answer, "Sunday." "Dear me," he said. I
said to the mother, "We cannot have our boy grow up to hate Sunday in
this way; that will never do. That is the way I used to feel when I was
a boy. I used to look upon Sunday with a certain amount of dread. Very
few kind words were associated with the day. I don't know that the
minister ever put his hand on my head. I don't know that the minister
even noticed me, unless it was when I was asleep in the gallery, and he
woke me up. This kind of thing won't do; we must make the Sunday the
most attractive day of the week; not a day to be dreaded; but a day of
pleasure." Well the mother took the work up with this boy. Bless those
mothers in their work with the children. Sometimes I feel as if I would
rather be the mother of John Wesley or Martin Luther or John Knox than
have all the glories in the world. Those mothers who are faithful with
the children God has given them will not go unrewarded. My wife went to
work and took those Bible stories and put those blessed truths in a
light that the child could comprehend, and soon the feeling of dread for
the Sabbath with the boy was the other way, "What day's to-morrow?" he
would ask, "Sunday." "I am glad." And if we make those Bible truths
interesting--break them up in some shape so that these children can get
at them, then they will begin to enjoy them.
WISDOM.
-- I remember a gentleman of Boston, a man high in life, a Congressman,
who was accustomed to carry with him little cards and distribute them
wherever he went, and on some of these cards were words like these: "I
expect to pass through this world but once, and therefore if there be
any kindness I can show, if there is anything I can do to make men
happy, I shall do it, for I may not pass this way again."
-- A man was asked what his persuasion was. He said it was the same as
Paul's. I don't know what Paul's persuasion was. All persuasi
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