Hang on Like a Beaver by Young Pilgrim

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 8, 1882

Hang on Like a Beaver.

By Young Pilgrim

When our Tom was six years old, he went into the forest one afternoon to meet the hired man, who was coming home with a load of wood. The man placed Master Tommy on the top of the load, and drove homeward. Just before reaching the farm, the team went pretty briskly down a steep hill. When Tommy entered the house, his mother said, "Tommy, my dear, were you not frightened when the horses went trotting so swiftly down Crow Hill?" "Yes, mother, a little," replied Tom, honestly; "I asked the Lord to help me, and hung on like a beaver." Sensible Tom! Why sensible? Because he joined working to praying. Let his words teach this life-lesson: in all troubles, pray and hang on like a beaver; by which I mean, that, while you ask God to help you, you must help yourself with all your might.

—Young Pilgrim.