A Christian mother, whose husband was an unbeliever, was in the habit of teaching her two little children a text of Scripture, which they repeated every night before going to bed. Then they knelt at her knee, and clasping their hands, prayed that God would watch over them during the night, and that He would bless their father and mother.
While the children were thus engaged one evening, their father came home, and attracted by the sound of his children’s voices, he listened at their bedroom door while they repeated their evening text, which that night was,
The words fixed themselves in the man’s memory; they were kept alive in his rembrance all the next day, and when he returned home the next evening, he clasped his wife and children to his bosom, and said,
“God, who so loved the world as to give His Son, has saved my soul, and sent me home to join with you in reading His Word, and thanking Him for the gift of everlasting life.”
From that day, he has gone on, a true disciple of the Lord, following Him and testifying of Him. His delight is to gather his little ones around the Sacred Word, and teach them the way of life through Jesus Christ alone. He preaches Christ to his fellows, and is esteemed by all as a true believer. The texts learned and repeated by his own children, were the means used in his conversion.
Let parents and teachers be encouraged in this good work. There is a power in the Word of God, which can never fail to bring those to whom it comes, into the presence of God, its Divine Author. Le free use be made of it everywhere, anti at all times, God will look after it.
ML 07/11/1943