You children probably know that public teaching of the Bible is something that should be done by men.
So you are probably wondering what children, and most of all, girls, can do to help out a Bible reading. Now if you will read the second chapter of Exodus you will find in the first part of the chapter, a story that should help you to understand how this can be done.
Here we have a little baby crying. And why was he crying? No doubt it was because he was hungry; he wanted milk. Now turn to the second chapter of 1 Peter and find the words:
“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”
This is what the baby Moses was doing: desiring milk. So if you are saved; if you have had the leprosy of sin cleansed away by Jesus, you should desire the Word in order to grow. A newly converted person must feed on the Bible, or he will licit grow. The Bible reading is a meeting intended to provide believers with Bible truth in order that they may grow. If you children are saved, you should have a desire to be at Sunday school or the Bible reading where teaching is given out.
Now let’s notice what Miriam did that made it possible for the baby Moses to get the milk he needed and wanted. First she watched, to see what would happen to him. Second, she asked the princess if she should go and call a nurse for the baby. Notice how she kept her place. She did not try to urge the princess to let her do this; she asked. Neither did she pretend to be able to take charge of the baby herself. She knew where there was someone who could feed the baby as he was supposed to be fed, and she did something; that brought the two together. Later on we read: “the child grew”.
Now suppose you children know someone who is saved and wants to know more about the Bible; what can you do to help them? You realize that you could not teach them. You might testify of the saving power of Jesus, but you could not teach the Bible. However, there is something you can and should do. That is to try to get them to come to the Sunday school and reading meeting where they can be taught.
You will notice that the princess told Moses’ mother “I will give thee thy wages.” So in a future day many women and mothers will be rewarded for teaching children in the Sunday school and the home. You children, too, may help. Christians to grow, by doing what you can to get them to come to Sunday school and the reading meeting.
ML 06/11/1939