GOT NOTHING | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1881

GOT NOTHING.

There was a poor woman who had one child, the joy of her heart, the one ewe-lamb of her household. She worked for it early and late. But there came a time, when one day it sickened. She watched it by day and carried it in her arms at night. But she could not keep the little heart beating or the body warm; so it was taken away and laid in the cold ground. She felt puzzled, crushed. It was a bright morning, the church-bells were ringing, and she thought, "I will go and hear what the preacher has to say." She crept in after the service had commenced, and took a retired seat. The organ was playing a soft, low tone; the hymn was soothing—some of our music is still devotional. The clergyman arose and announced his text. She lifted her veil and raised her eager, trembling face towards him. Did he tell her—that not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Father in Heaven, or did he tell how that heavenly Father pitieth his children, and gave his only-begotten Son for our sins and sorrows? No, he told her about Louis Napoleon! She waited till the congregation had passed out. There were among them happy mothers, leading dear little children. She grasped the gate-post at the side of the church-door, in the weakness of despair, and said, There is no God.—Christian Intelligencer.