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THE HEATHEN HAVE BEAT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 1, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 44.

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THE HEATHEN HAVE BEAT.

ROBBIE went to a missionary meeting, and heard for the first time about the poor heathen who bow down to wooden and stone images, and who do not know about God. The children were asked to bring in money to help missionaries go out and teach them about God.
Next day Robbie coaxed his mother to give him a penny.
"Now," said he, when the penny was in his hand, "I'll buy me a stick of candy; I've wanted some this long while."
"Is that the best use you can make of your penny?" asked his mother.
"Why, yes," said he, "because I wanted it very badly."
So off he ran to the candy store across the street. His mother watched him from the window, and saw him running quite fast. Then he stopped, and then ran on again. Then he stopped quite short again, and she thought he must have lost his penny; but he soon ran on again, never stopping until he reached the door of the candy store. There he stood still for a few minutes, his hand in his pocket holding his penny, and his eye on the candy in the window.
Was he choosing what kind he would buy? No; she was very much surprised to see him turn around from the store and run home as quickly as his little feet would carry him. Soon he rushed into the room shouting: "Mother, the heathen have beat! The heathen have beat!"
"What do you mean, Robbie?"
"Why, mother, as I went along I kept hearing the heathen say: 'Give us your penny to help send us missionaries. We want Bibles and tracts. Help us.'"
That is what his penny went for.—Anon.