A MOTHER in Brazil had bought a Bible and began to teach her children some of the sacred truths in the blessed Book. However, her husband forbade her to read it. But she had become so much interested that she only hid it away while he was about the house. He learned from the servants and the children that she was still reading the book, and several times he treated her roughly and even beat her for disobeying him.
The poor mother then conceived the idea of reading at night when all were asleep. She hid her Bible along with a box of matches and candle cut into small pieces, under her pillow. She would then wait until her husband and all the household were sound asleep and then she would light one of the bits of candle and hold it close down by her side so that the light might not awaken her sleeping husband. Thus in this way she spent many nights seeking out of God’s Book His messages for her soul.
The children of this godly woman have grown up now, each having a fine Christian character, and they too have brought up their own little ones in the knowledge and fear of the Lord.
ML-10/12/1969