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Northern Illinois University
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New York Weekly
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v. 31 no. 22
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Poem |
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New York Weekly, v. XXXI, no. 22, April 17, 1876 (Issue) |
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Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905
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April 17, 1876 |
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I was urging this one time in a meeting in America, and an old man got up at the close and said: "I want to indorse every word that has been said. I believe in the conversion of little children. Sixteen years ago I was in a heathen country laboring as a missionary, and my wife died and left me with three little motherless children. On the Sabbath after her death my eldest girl, ten years old, came to me, and said: 'Pape, shall I take the children into the bedroom and pray with them as mother used to?' " That is the power of example; the mother was dead and gone, and little Nellie, ten years old, wanted to follow in her footsteps. The father said yes, she might if she liked, and she led them off to the chamber to pray. He said when they came out he noticed that they had all been weeping, and asked what they had been weeping about. "Well, father" said the little girl, "I prayed just as mother taught me to pray, and then"-naming her little brother-"he prayed the prayer that mother taught him to pray; but little Susie, she was too young; mother had not taught her a prayer, and so she made a prayer of her own, and I could not help but weep to hear her pray" "Why." said the father, "what did she say?" "Why, she put up her little hands, and closed her eyes, and said: 'Oh, God you have come and taken away my dear mamma, and I have no mamma to pray for me now; won't you please make me good just as my dear mamma was, for Jesus' sake, Amen;'" "and" said the old missionary, "God heard that prayer." - Mr. Moody's London Sermon |
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