A little girl had been promised a handsome Bible for her
birthday. On hearing a missionary tell of the need of Bibles in
India, the child asked if she might not have two Bibles, each
half as handsome as the one her mother was planning to give her.
Her mother consented and the little girl wrote her name in one
of them and gave it to the missionary to send to India. Years
afterward a lady missionary was telling the story of the love of
Jesus to a few women, when one of them exclaimed: “Oh, I know
all about that. I have a book which tells me these things.” She
brought the book to the missionary, who, on opening it, saw
with astonishment her own name on the fly-leaf! It was the very
birthday Bible she had sent out years before as a little girl
and it had led to the conversion of its reader. (Text.)
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=Harvest-raising=--See COOPERATION WITH GOD.
=Haste=--See PAINSTAKING.