Her little girl whom she had
taught to pray in faith (but it is more difficult to practice than to
preach), came up to her, and said, "What makes you cry, mamma? I will
pray to God to give us a little house, and won't He?" What could the
mother say? So the little child went into the next room and began to
pray. The door was open, and the mother could hear every word. "O God,
you have come and taken away father, and mamma has got no money, and the
landlord will turn us out because we can't pay, and we will have to sit
on the doorstep, and mamma will catch cold. Give us a little home." Then
she waited, as if for an answer, and then added, "Won't you, please,
God?" She came out of that room quite happy, expecting a house to be
given them. The mother felt reproved. I can tell you, however, she has
never paid any rent since, for God heard the prayer of that little one,
and touched the heart of the cruel landlord. God give us the faith of
that little child, that we may likewise expect an answer, "nothing
wavering."
The Orphan's Prayer.
A little child whose father and mother had died, was taken into another
family. The first night she asked if she could pray, as she used to do.
They said "Oh yes." So she knelt down, and prayed as her mother taught
her; and when that was ended she added a little prayer of her own: "Oh
God, make these people as kind to me as father and mother were.
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