In China one often sees the men l pushing wheelbarrows laden with bamboo. Bamboo is very useful and. countless things are made out of it, such as furniture and all sorts of household articles. I would like to tell you of the little daughter of a bamboo-maker. Her father had a little shop on the street of a large town, far away in the interior of China. Day by day he spent his time making baskets and other useful things out of bamboo. He was getting older and so was his wife, and their faces looked sad. Of all their many children, only the youngest one, this little daughter, was left at home. She used to sit in her father’s shop all day long without moving, for although she was seven years old, she could not walk.
But the Lord in His mercy sent light into their darkness. One day a gospel work was begun by a missionary next to the bamboo shop. The poor basket-maker listened night after night to the wonderful glad tidings about the Saviour of the world. The Lord opened his heart and he put his trust in the Lord Jesus. Soon the missionary’s young wife arrived and had classes for women and children in their home, which was quite a distance from the bamboo shop. But the bamboomaker made a basket for Fuh-mei, for this was the name of his little girl, and the mother carried the daughter in that basket on her back to all the meetings.
There was little Fuh-mei sitting and listening to all that was said. has soon memorized Scripture verses and hymns and learned to read. When the women could not answer a question, Fuh-mei always could. She gave her heart to the Lord Jesus and trusted in Him. The Lord strengthened her little body too and she was soon able to walk, and grew up to love and serve the Lord Jesus.
ML 12/19/1950