LITTLE Bobby was only five years old, but he had learned about the Lord, and how God answers prayer. Bobby had a brother who was very sick. The doctor came to see him, and said he must stay in bed for several days until he was well. Mother thought best to send little Bobby to Grandma’s home, so that the house could be kept perfectly quiet for the little sick brother. Bobbie did not forget to pray for him each day, and said he knew that God would make him well again. It was not long before the little brother was able to be out in the yard again playing with Bobbie.
Bobbie prayed for many things especially when he was in trouble. One morning Aunt Celia went into the kitchen after breakfast and found Bobbie on his knees praying.
“Why, Bobbie, what are you doing? You have already said your prayers.”
Holding up a pencil case, into which the lead had slipped too far to allow him to write with it, he said,
“I was asking God to help me to get this out.”
Thinking the little one’s faith might be shaken in the Lord, Aunt Celia remarked,
“Yes, but dear, you can’t expect God to come down from heaven to do those things for you. He expects little boys to use means to help themselves.”
“I know,” he replied, “but I was just asking God to show me a way to get it out myself.”
I need hardly say, Bobbie soon found a way, by means of a little piece of stick being pushed through the other end of the pencil-case, and Bobbie was soon happily writing again.
This story is quite true, and is written to teach little children to trust in the Lord at all times, for He is always near and ready to help us in time of trouble.
If you want to know any more about Bobbie, you will have to go to Denver, Colo., for that is where he lives.
ML 07/07/1918