p. 566 | LITTLE TANGLES

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1880

LITTLE TANGLES.

ONCE there was a king who employed his people to weave for him. The silk and patterns were all given by the king. He told the workers that when any difficulty arose, they should send to him, and never to fear troubling him.

Among men and women busy at their looms was one little child whom the king did not think too young to work. Often alone at her work, cheerfully and patiently she labored. One day, when the men and women were distressed at the sight of their failures, the silks were tangled, and the weaving unlike the pattern, they gathered around the child and said: "Tell us how it is that you are so happy in your work. We are always in difficulties."

"Then why do you not send to the king?" said the little weaver; "he told us that we might do so."

"So we do, night and morning."

"Ah," said the child, "but I send directly on finding that I have a little tangle."

So let us take all our wants and troubles directly to the Lord in prayer. He invites us to do so, and promises to help us.—Selected.