God sometimes uses the children to touch the parents’ hearts, and thus encourages us to go on song the seed, not knowing where the gospel may be carried.
Among the Sioux Indians there was a chief who had a beautiful little daughter. He had, for a long time, watched the life of the missionaries, and one day he took his child to them, asking that she might be brought up like a white woman, and not like a wild Indian one. Of course, the missionaries very gladly undertook the charge, and taught her in their school among the other Indian children. There she heard of Jesus for the first time, and her young heart opened to Him, and she trusted Him as her own Saviour.
After a time she was taken ill, and the chief was sent for. As he sat by her side, she told him, “the old, old story, of Jesus and His love,” in her own simple language, and begged him to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as the One who had died for him, and soon after this she passed away.
The chief sorrowed much for his lovely flower, but he remembered her words, and sought to learn about Jesus from the missionaries.
His heart, now so soft, was easily won for Christ, and he was the first of the tribe to be baptized.
Thus a little child was used of God to lead her father to the Lord Jesus.
I trust this may encourage all my young readers, who can say, “I know the Lord Jesus is my Saviour,” to take every opportunity to speak of that blessed Saviour to others, and entreat them to accept Him now, while it is the day of salvation.
ML 06/18/1944