In days when Bibles were not so cheap or so plentiful as they now are, a fisherboy was very anxious to procure a Bible of his own. He went to a Sunday school, but he had no Bible at home, nor had he any money to buy one. But Pattie prayed to God to find him a Bible, and God heard his prayer.
One day while he was wading in the sea, gathering bait for his father’s fishing lines, he saw a book floating on the water: On picking it up, be found it was a Bible, which had evidently been lost from a passing ship. Pattie rejoiced in being the possessor of God’s blessed Book, and read it eagerly. He was saved, and became a true follower of Christ, and in his own native village, he tells to boys and girls in the village Sunday school, the story of Jesus and His love.
What a grand thing it is to be saved, and a lover of the Book of God while young. This is the only way to a holy, happy and useful life, and there is no other road to heaven and God.
ML 02/26/1939