FINDING THE WAY |
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| Eight year old Alicea wanted very much to ask her mother
if she might go next door to play; but some ladies from the Missionary Society were
talking with her mother, and it would not be polite to interrupt the conversation. At last she slipped inside the door and softly crossed the room and stood behind her rnother's chair. One of the ladies was telling a story of her childhood. Alicea became so interested she forgot what she wanted to ask her mother, and listened to the story. This is what the lady said: "When I was a little girl, I wanted very much to be a Christian; but no one ever explained to me what I must do to be one, and for a long time my heart was hungry and thirsty to find out the way. Then one day an old man told in meeting how he found the way, even as a little boy. The old man said he went one day in real earnestness, and got down on his knees and asked God to forgive all his naughty doings, and make him God's own little boy, and from that day on he believed God had forgiven him and made him His child." "After I heard that old man," said the lady, "I also went and asked God to make me his little girl, and to forgive all my bad doings. And," she added smilingly, "I believe he did. I have thanked Him ever since." As Alicea listened to this talk, she thought, why that was just what she had wanted to know about—how to find God. She slipped out of the room and went to her little sleeping place. There she got down on her knees and asked God to forgive her for all the naughty things she had done, and for the cross words, and to make her His little girl, and to help her live to please Him. She also promised to read her Bible and learn how He wanted her to live. And into her heart came such sweetness and joy, she was sure God had heard her prayer for she really meant every word of it. (An old white haired lady told me this story, and she said she believed on Jesus from that day.)
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