AN IDOL THAT COULD NOT GET OUT OF BED.
A LITTLE lassie from a heathen home had been for a short time attending a missionary school. The idols in her home had been regilded. One day the “Goddess of Mercy” was missing from her place. After some searching it was found in the schoolgirl’s bed. When asked how it came there, she explained that she had heard at school that idols were pieces of wood; so she thought she would try for herself if this were so, and she took down the idol to sleep with her, in order that she might see whether it was wise enough to get up out of bed in the morning when she got up. It was rather clever of a little mite of eight years of age, at least so her grandfather thought, and he saved her from the beating her mother was going to give her. But her strange act, and the reason she gave for it, was the subject of talk in the home, and the next Sunday the whole family came to church.—Selected.