CHILDREN’S PAGE by Vera Chilton

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

CHILDREN’S PAGE

By Vera Chilton

Out of the Mouth of Babes

As a rule, Mohammedans in this city are not kindly disposed toward the teaching of the gospel in their homes, and often at the first two or three visits it is difficult to make a beginning. As far as possible I prefer to wait for them to ask me to read; they take it so much better than when they feel it is being forced upon them. In such cases, after the first few kindly greetings, I sit very quietly, gazing earnestly at my book, praying that God may move by his Spirit on their hearts to ask me to read. Very often I find this seems to touch a chord in their hearts, and they are given up to the Spirit’s working.

THE SAME CHILDREN (WHAT A DIFFERENCE CLOTHES MAKE)

It was in such a house one day I sat. The women’s faces seemed so hard and indifferent, and time was passing swiftly; still no one asked me to read, and my heart was yearning over them. As earnest prayer was ascending for an opening for the precious seed to be sown, the baby of the house, a tiny mite scarcely able to walk, leaving his mother’s arms, came to my side, and patting my book with one little hand and looking up into my face, with his sweet little baby lisp, said, “Parhiye,” which is Urdu for “Please read.” It was as if an angel spoke. Silence fell upon those assembled there, as the Word, the true bread of life, was broken to them at the child’s bidding.

Verily, “out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.”

VERA CHILTON.

Lucknow, India.