A Child’s Prayer of Encouragement

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 30, 1915

A Child’s Prayer of Encouragement

How God uses apparently little things to encourage workers in our trying mission fields who labor under heavy burdens, is well illustrated by an incident related by Prof. H. R. Salisbury at the fall council. On leaving for India, a little girl of four years, the daughter of a friend in London, whispered something to him. As he did not understand, he coaxed her to whisper it to her papa. It was this: “You are going away off to India, but you must not be afraid; for I will pray to Jesus, and he will keep you safe.” Well, when Brother Salisbury was low with fever, away from home, and thought he might die, and lay thinking how he might send word home telling that the end might come any time, he remembered the words of the little child, and they comforted, encouraged, and somehow assured him that she had not forgotten to pray for him, and that he would be safe. The Lord does hear the prayers even of his little ones.