A missionary doctor at Shanghai was lying one night in his bed
fast asleep, when he was awakened by a loud knocking at his
front door. Even Chinese grown men are very much afraid of the
dark, so he was very much surprized to see two little lads from
a village five miles distant standing at his door. They said
their school-teacher had been taken ill, and they had come for
some medicine to help him. “Why didn’t some men come on this
errand?” the missionary asked. “Because they were afraid,” said
the boys. “Why were not you afraid?” “We were,” said the boys,
“but we thought it was what Jesus Christ would like us to do, so
we came.” (Text.)
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