What is the name of the country where you see many windmills, and where boys and girls wear wooden shoes? Holland. I want to tell you of something that happened in that country many years ago.
The ground is so flat and low that at times the sea has rushed in over part of it, and destroyed whole towns. In one of these floods, which occurred about two hundred and fifty years ago, more than twenty thousand people were drowned. Many brave people rushed about in boats, trying to save as many others as they could. On a little bit of high land, left standing from an island, what do you think they found? An old cradle, with a baby asleep in it, and a cat curled up at her feet, all safe and sound.
Where the little baby came from, and to whom she belonged, no one could find out. But in her memory, the island was called “Kinderclyde” which means “Child Dyke” and it goes by that strange name to this day.
Dear children, your young lives are surrounded too by danger and death on all sides. But God is watching over you and He loves you. If you will take the Lord Jesus as your Saviour, when the storms of judgment, sweep over this world, you will he forever safe. “Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.” Psalm 2:1212Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. (Psalm 2:12).
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