p. 9 | HIS NAME by Susan Teall Perry

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 42.

HIS NAME.

By Susan Teall Perry

"My name? O, no matter for that, good child; Just run home to your mother now, And take her this fruit while it's cool and fresh"— The stranger passed on with a bow.

"But, sir, O, kind sir!" the little girl called; No heed did he give to the cry, And soon he was lost to sight in the crowd That was hurrying swiftly by.

Homeward she sped with the basket quite full Of oranges yellow and round. "Mother," she cried, as she came to the cot, "O, just see what treasures I've found!

" 'Twas the strangest thing; I stood by the stand, And I said to Tommy, 'Dear me, If I had money, I'd buy some of these For mother to eat with her tea.'

"It's most like a fairy story to tell— A gentleman standing quite near Stepped up and whispered, Is your mother ill? Would she like some oranges, dear?"

"I told him you had been ill a long time; I wished you could have just a few. He picked out the very best he could find, And told me to bring them to you.

"I asked for his name, but he would not tell; And you said, dear mother, we ought To always ask God to bless the kind ones Who help in our trouble have brought.

"Do you think that God knows the good man's name?" Then the mother looked up and smiled, As she whispered, "O, yes, God knows his name; It is written in heaven, my child!"

Susan Teall Perry.