Dear Little Ones: I want to tell you a true story of a very little girl, only two and a half years old; who, though so young had learned what Jesus meant when He said “Ask and ye shall receive.” E.’s mother had received a letter, one day, saying that an express package was coming with a dress in it for the little girl.
When E. knelt by her bed that night, her mamma asked her if she would like to thank God for putting it into the heart of her kind aunt to send her a new dress. She did so, and then of her own accord, added this prayer, “O Dod, div me some little shoes, my shoes dot holes in.” After she had gone to sleep, the package came, and in it, with the dress, was a nice pair of shoes. In the morning her mamma asked her if she remembered asking God for shoes, and if she believed that God was going to send them? She said very decidedly, “Yes, nim, He is.” When her mamma handed her the shoes, she was very much plead but not at all surprised. “According to your faith be it unto you.”
ML 05/28/1899