Peggy was just a little girl, and her parents were very poor. A kind man, walking along the road near the cottage where she lived, gave her a New Testament, and asked her to read a few verses of it every day. Peggy was delighted, but her parents were angry and threatened to take the precious Book away from her.
However, Peggy was so interested in her Book and the wonderful things it told her, that she could not stop reading it; so she dug a hole in the garden, lined it with pieces of wood, and then put a wooden lid on top. She covered the lid with a light layer of dirt. Into this strange place she put her precious Testament, taking every opportunity she could to read it.
Dear Peggy learned from the Book the way of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and she came to trust Him as her Saviour and became a faithful follower of Him. Nor did it end there. Her parents, seeing the wonderful change in their little daughter’s life, gave her liberty to read her Testament in the house, and by this means they were both brought to know the Saviour as their own.
Dear reader, you may not have such hindrance placed in your way by those at home as Peggy did, but has your heart been won for Christ?
ML-03/13/1977