Some young Christians are timid and self-conscious, and can not
help it; what is to be done then? We once knew a child who was
so painfully bashful that anything that called attention to
herself was a positive torture to her. So simple an act as to
step across the aisle and hand a hymn-book made her heart beat
wildly. Then one day she saw a report of an organization which
was called “A Bridge from the Island of Supply to the Island of
Want.” Her mother, who saw that her little girl’s usefulness in
life would be greatly curtailed if she yielded to her foolish
fear, talked to her seriously and said: “Don’t think of yourself
as yourself, but think of yourself as God’s bridge. Whenever
He gives you an opportunity to do anything that would help any
one, or a thought that would make any one happy for you to tell
it, just say, ‘Now, I’m not anybody in myself; I’m just God’s
bridge, and I must let Him pass over me to this service.’ If you
see the need and have the supply, no matter what it is, then
you are God’s bridge, and you must be a strong bridge so that
His path may not be broken.” She soon learned to forget all
about herself in her own personality, and forgetting herself,
forgot her fear. (Text.)--MAY F. MCKEAN, _Zion’s
Advocate_.
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