A HINDOO WIFE, AN EXILE FROM HER COUNTRY FOR HAVING ACCEPTED CHRISTIANITY.
He Chose the God That Could See Him
A CHILD in Burma was permitted by his parents to go to a mission school because they wished him to learn to read. By and by they found he was losing faith in the idols. This made them feel very sad. So the father took the lad to one of the gayest of the temples and showed him the idol, covered with gold and silver ornaments, surrounded with flowers and candles and fragrant incense.
“Here,” said the father, “is a god you can see; but the Christians cannot show you their God.”
“Yes,” said the child, “we can see your god, but he cannot see us. We cannot see the Christian’s God, but he sees us all the time.”
Was not this child wise in choosing the God from whom even the thoughts of the heart cannot be hid?
