If you have got a child go and point the way. I
challenge any man to speak of heaven without speaking of children. "For
of such is the kingdom of heaven."
A Sad and Singular Story.
When I was a young boy--before I was a Christian--I was in a field one
day with a man who was hoeing. He was weeping, and he told me a strange
story, which I have never forgotten. When he left home his mother gave
him this text: "Seek first the kingdom of God." But he paid no heed to
it. He said when he got settled in life, and his ambition to get money
was gratified, it would be time enough then to seek the kingdom of God.
He went from one village to another and got nothing to do. When Sunday
came he went into a village church, and what was his great surprise to
hear the minister give out the text, "Seek first the kingdom of God." He
said the text went down to the bottom of his heart. He thought that it
was but his mother's prayer following him, and that some one must have
written to that minister about him. He felt very uncomfortable, and when
the meeting was over he could not get that sermon out of his mind. He
went away from that town, and at the end of a week went into another
church and he heard the minister give out the same text, "Seek first the
kingdom of God.
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