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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 7, 1902

What Does It Mean?

By Mrs. A. C. A.

MRS. A. C. A.

Not long ago there appeared in one of our State papers a notice of a “home wanted for a bright, pretty little boy four years old.” After some correspondence with the author of the notice, she said that mine was the only response she had received to the notice. The query at once presented to my mind was this, What does it mean? Surely among hundreds of our people there is more than one home. I wonder, if Christ should come to these homes, asking for a place to lay his weary head, if there would be just one home open to him. Yet he said, “Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.” Matt. 25:45.

Some say to me, “I do not see how you can tie yourself up with a lot of somebody else’s babies.” I answer, I do not see how you can dare think of

sharing the home Christ is preparing, when you refuse to shelter him in the form of homeless, friendless children. Others say, “It is such a great responsibility to raise children.” True! but did you ever think that perhaps God will hold you responsible for allowing them to grow up after Satan’s own mind instead of training them for the Lord yourself? These are God-given opportunities to be co-workers with him.

There are many homes which might be opened to the friendless, but alas! the heart is locked up tight. Will the Saviour force an entrance?—No, never! Will you open your heart and home to him? “Whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.” Matt. 18: 5.