Is any little girl or boy who reads this, wondering how a child can do good? I can tell you one way which I learned from a little girl. A friend told me that when he was preaching he was struck by the attention of a child whose eye was fixed upon his lips, except now and then when she looked up to her mother with a smile, as if something pleased her. The next Lord’s Day he found her in the same spot, ready to catch every word of his discourse; and he was so delighted with her apparent desire “to hear of heaven, and learn the way” that he waited at the close to tell her mother how it gratified him to have such an interested listener. From the mother he learned that this little girl had no pleasure equal to that of treasuring up what she heard for an old and infirm grandmother, to whom she carried so much instruction that the poor woman would say it was almost as good as going herself.
Was not this a very pleasant and a very easy way of “doing good”? Is there any child who cannot do as much good. Have not each of you some sick friend, or some old friend, deprived of the privilege of hearing the gospel preached, to whom you might carry what you hear, if you would only take the pains to remember?
If you will hear all the preacher says you will find, as that little girl did, a great deal to do the young good as well as an aged grandmother.