CHILDREN are sometimes afraid of the dark. Jimmy was four years old, and so much afraid in the dark, he always wanted a light to be left in his room on going to bed.
One night, as he was about to retire, his mamma said, “Jimmy, you have nothing to fear, for God takes care of His little ones in the dark as well as in the “I know it,” said Jimmy, “but I can’t help being afraid.”
“Do you ask God to help you, so that you may not be afraid?”
“No,” was his serious reply.
“Then I would: He hears prayer.”
A little time after this he asked his mother for an apple. She told him he could have it if he would go and get it himself. A few moments after, she saw him go into another room and kneel behind the door. Then she heard this little prayer: “Lord, don’t let me he afraid.”
Then he arose from his knees, went down into a dark cellar, and bravely got an apple from a barrel in the darkest corner.
His mother said, “Were you not afraid?”
Jimmy replied, “No; God did not let me be afraid.”
ML 11/26/1899