THE CHOCOLATE BOX
In a Sunday-school in New South Wales the children were very keen about
their missionary duty. They were specially interested in the
chocolate-coloured people of New Guinea, a very large island to the
North of Australia, and determined to do all they could to help them.
Among other things they had a chocolate-coloured box made and they put
in it all they could. During the season of Lent they all gave up
chocolates and other sweets and gave the pennies thus saved to what had
come to be known as "The Chocolate Box."
You have been reading in this little book about another people with
chocolate skins, and one result of your reading ought to be a strong
desire to make better known among them the redeeming love of our Lord
Jesus Christ. For some of them "He has done great things already whereof
we rejoice," but if He had only more money He could do much more. We can
all help Him by means of a chocolate box.
We can help Him, too, by our prayers. This little book, if you have read
it carefully, will have suggested much to you to pray about. Just to
tell the Lord Jesus about the poor little children of wild Australia and
their needs is to do much to help those needs to be supplied. Call up in
your mind what happened at Cana of Galilee where Jesus made the water
wine. His mother came to Him and laid before Him the need, and He in His
own good time supplied it. So we can all lay before Him the needs of
these dear little children and we can trust Him at His own time to do
what is best. Perhaps some day some may hear the call to personal
service, to go out and make their homes among the children there and
teach them, as others have been taught, to know and love the Children's
King.
End of Project Gutenberg's Children of Wild Australia, by Herbert Pitts