p. 24 | A Little Child Shall Lead Them by P. TUNHEIM

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

By P. TUNHEIM

A Chinese heathen woman has been coming for some time to our meetings. Her husband has been very prejudiced and forbade her to come. One of the great evils among the women of Java is that of gambling. This woman spent whole days and weeks at it, until she forgot everything else. Her husband has done his utmost to earn enough money to keep his wife well supplied, and then he has sent her away to gamble so that she should not attend the meetings. Since she has learned the evil of this, she will not go any more, and this has made her husband still more furious.

Their smallest boy, a little lad about four years of age, seems really to be moved in a special way by the Spirit of God. He always pleads with his mother to take him to the meetings. He comes and sits for one hour without moving, and listens like an old man. He often speaks to his father and shows him by example how he must kneel down and pray to the God who made all things, and tells him that their dead gods cannot help them. Whenever the father sees him kneeling down and praying the Lord's Prayer, which he has learned from us, the father whips him with a big stick; but the boy does not seem to mind in the least, and goes right on worshiping the true God. One day this little lad took the stick and hit the long candles and joss-sticks, which are used in worshiping the idols, and broke them all to pieces. God is able in these last days to raise up children who will become witnesses for him.

P. TUNHEIM.

Java, East Indies.