That's Me | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1865

That's Me.

A POOR Hottentot in Southern Africa lived with a good Dutchman who kept up family prayer daily. One day he read, "Two men went into the temple to pray." The poor savage, whose heart was already awakened, looked earnestly at the reader, and whispered, "Now I'll learn how to pray." The Dutchman read on.—"God I thank thee I am not as other men."

"No, I am not; but am worse," whispered the Hottentot.

Again the Dutchman read, "I fast twice in a week. I give tithes of all I possess."

"I can't do that, I don't pray in that manner. What shall I do?" said the distracted savage.

The good man read on until he came to the publican, who "would not lift so much as his eyes to Heav-en"

"That's me," cried his hearer.

"Stood afar off," read the other.

"That's where I am," said the Hottentot.

"But smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner."

"That's me; that's my prayer," cried the poor creature: and smiting on his dark breast, he prayed, 'God be merciful to me a sinner,' until like the poor publican he went down to his house a saved and happy man.