WHERE are these children? Look carefully at the picture and you will see that they are in a carpenter’s shop, picking up shavings. I think the man who is standing near the bench, likes to have them come, for he has stopped his work to talk to them.
The little colored, girl’s name is Alma. She met the children on the way to the shop and asked them if she could go too.
They told her she could, for she is a good girl and they have lots of fun with her.
Do you see what she has done? To the tight little twists of her curly black hair she has fastened long white shavings, so that they hang down on either side of her face. Then she looks at them as much as to say, “How do you like my new curls”? She is laughing, so I suppose she is saying many funny things to them. The little boy does not know whether to laugh or not, for he does not know Alma as well as his sister does; but he is watching her closely.
How happy Alma seems. Do you think she has as much in this life to make her happy as you have? Do you think those who have riches are the happy ones? No, but all those who believe in the Lord Jesus, and put their trust in Him should be happy, for they have something far better than anything this world could give them. In Psalms 146:5, 65Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: 6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: (Psalm 146:5‑6), we read: “HAPPY IS HE THAT HATH- THE GOD OF JACOB FOR HIS HELP, WHOSE HOPE IS IN THE LORD HIS GOD: Which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth forever.”
ML 04/18/1909