Our Brothers and Sisters Over the Sea

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 13, 1913

Our Brothers and Sisters Over the Sea

Lesson for the Children — No. 4

Our Brothers and Sisters Over the Sea

MEMORY TEXT: “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Matt. 7:12.

Describe how we all try to help and care for one in the family who is ill or helpless. If we have a brother or a sister who is afflicted, the tenderest care, the best things, are given the weaker one.

So it should be with the blessings given us of God. There are so many who do not know Jesus. They would love him if they knew him. In heathen countries little children are taught to pray to ugly-looking images, not because they love them, but because they are afraid they will do them harm.

One father came to our missionary after he had been taught the right way and said, “Sir, my little girl should study this way of salvation.” Poor child! Who will go to teach her?

Not only this little girl, but many, many others should be taught. In India there are 400 little baby girls only one year old who are widows before they can talk. There are over 7,000 little widows less than five years old, and 35,000 child-widows from five and under ten years of age. These poor children are abused, starved, cursed, and beaten because they live in a heathen land and are blamed for things they never did.

In the sunny South Sea live a multitude of little brown people. Were they to meet you, they would say softly, “Talofa,” which means, “Love to you.” Many would love Jesus if they heard how he came to save them, and they would also love the teacher who taught them.

If you were a little heathen boy or girl, what should you think Christian children ought to do for you?

Not so long ago Christian teachers could not go to heathen countries as they can now. To-day they call for us to help them, and this is another sign that Jesus will soon come.

(The leader may relate incidents

gleaned from missionaries in other lands, or tell of conditions, as time will permit.)

Let us pray today for the little boys and girls in other countries, that they may be taught to be Christians, and let us think of what we can do to help them.