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THE SAME GOD

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 30.

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THE SAME GOD.

A LADY was once visiting her friends in Boston, and as she was making arrangements to return home, a friend asked if she would take her little boy with her, as she wanted to send him to visit his grandparents, near whose house the lady was going on her way home.
She readily consented to take charge of him, and found him to be a bright little fellow, and a very pleasant companion.
It was before railroads were made, and they went in a stage; and as it was quite a distance, they had to stop one night on the way. The little boy was tired; and when the lady took him up-stairs, she thought as the room was cold she would not ask him to say his prayers till he was in bed.
When he was snugly tucked up, she asked him if he did not want to pray.
"No," he replied.
She was surprised, and asked, "What, don't you want to say your prayers?" "No," was his decided answer.
"Why," said she, "Papa prayed this morning that the Lord would take care of us, and he has taken care of us; and now don't you want to thank him?"
He started up, and asked earnestly, "Is it the same God here that my papa prays to at home?"
Being assured that it was, he seemed to feel quite at home, said his prayers, and thanked the Lord for taking care of them on their journey, and then wanted his friend to pray, "Because," said he, "it is the same God we have at home."
When the lady went down, he told her she might take the light, for he was not afraid since God was there.
Our little friend was not the first person who supposed that in leaving home he had left his father's God. Even Jacob, when departing from the tents of Isaac, was astonished at the visions of Bethel, and said, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not." Gen. 28:16. And older persons who have seen in a clearer light the glory of the omnipresent God, often act when on a journey as if God was left behind. Blessed are they who, in every condition, are assured of the presence of "the same God," and who "pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting,"
"Well knowing that Jesus resides everywhere, And can in all places give answers to prayer."