LITTLE boy of about eight years old, the son of a poor Indian, whose father feared the Lord, and who lived near Folisca in Mexico, was one day in the street of a village, when a procession passed by. Every one knelt down and bared their heads, except the little boy who remained standing immovable.
“Kneel down child!” shouted a man who was near him.
“I won’t do it,” answered the child.
“Kneel, I tell you, don’t you see that God is passing by?” continued the man.
“I won’t kneel;” answered the child again, “that is not God; it is only an idol,” the little hero said. “My God is not made of wood; He is a Spirit, and He tells us that we must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
The procession passed by, and the man came to the boy, and said “Who taught you such things?”
“God’s Word,” said he.
“Well, I would like to read that,” said the man.
“I will give you a book,” said the boy. “Come here next week and I’ll bring it with me.”
The following week the boy took with him some gospels that an Englishman had left at his father’s house some time before. Several men were there punctually. Each of them took a gospel; and they had a long talk with the little boy, with the result that they came regularly from that time, to the meetings at his father’s house.
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.” Exo. 20:4, 54Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Exodus 20:4‑5).
ML-12/26/1920