A Godly Woman’s Work at Home
The following is quoted from the department of Woman’s Work in the Union Conference Record, published in Australia. This department is conducted by Mrs. V. J. Farnsworth, who is carrying on the work with the Australian sisters, with encouraging results:— One dear sister’s experience illustrates the simple, effectual way a godly woman may work for Christ in her own home. She says: “I don’t know why God saw fit to let me see this precious truth when so many good people, better than I am, can not see it. From the first, I have felt that my married daughter, and my sister, who is a Catholic, must experience the blessings that have come to me. I have other relatives and friends in whom I feel as much interest, especially my husband and my eldest son, who have not a Christian experience; but for some reason I have been led to pray more earnestly for my daughter Mary and for sister Jennie than for the others. I have formed the habit, though it may seem a foolish one, of talking to God when I am about my daily work. One morning I was washing, and must have been making considerable noise, and I was saying to the Lord, ‘O, joy! joy! what joy we shall have when we all are saved! Mary will be there, bringing her sheaves. Jennie will come bringing her sheaves; and I can say, Lord, here am I, and the children thou hast given me.’ I forgot everything else in my happiness while thinking about the reward of the righteous, and Mary came in without my seeing her, and heard all I was saying. She asked me who I was talking to, and so I told her all about it. She said very little, and after a time we went out to take a walk. On the street I told her how often I prayed for her and also for her husband. She simply answered, Yes, yes, to it all; but finally she said, ‘Mother, I have a confession to make to you now. Fred and I have talked much lately of our duty to obey God, and not long ago he said that he would do so sometime. I asked him why not now, and, mother, I want you to keep right on praying for us with all your might.’ I know God will bring my children to him in his own time, and I shall see his salvation.”