Help in Time of Need

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 22, 1879

Help in Time of Need.

A LITTLE heathen maid was received into a Christian family to attend to the children, and take them out, as she was well acquainted with the people and the surrounding country. She was kind and gentle with the children, and the family liked her. They extended their walk one day farther than usual, gathering wild flowers, and being tired, they all sat down on the grass. One of the little ones strayed away, and not returning immediately, the maid said she would go and look after her, and told the children not to stir from that spot till she returned. She ran off, calling the child by name as she went. At last she heard the child's voice answering. Soon they met, but her horror was great on seeing her followed by a leopard. She ran to her rescue, and stood between the two. In a moment it rushed into her mind, I will try my master's God. She threw herself on her knees in an agony, and uttered loudly, "O, my master's God, save my master's child!" The leopard looked at the maid and the child, then turned around and ran into the thicket, the child looking after it.