An Answer Given

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 2, 1912

AN infidel was walking in the country when he met a little boy with a New Testament under his arm. He stopped the boy and said, “My little man, what book is that you have?”

“It is a New Testament, sir,” said the boy.

“Do you believe there is a God?” asked the man.

“Yes,” replied the lad, looking up with surprise in his face. “I know there is a God!”

“Well,” said the man, who wanted to make fun of the boy and his religion, “will you tell me if your God is a little God or a great God?”

Looking up again, the boy said, “Well, sir, he is both.”

“Ah,” said the man, “how can that be?”

“Why, sir, he is so little that he can come and dwell in my heart, and he is so big that the whole world can’t hold him!”—Selected.