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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 5, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 6

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OUR FATHER.

A GOOD woman, searching out the children of want, one cold day last winter tried to open a door in the third story of a wretched house, when she heard a little voice say, “Pull the string up high! Pull the string up high!” She looked up and saw a string, which, on being pulled, lifted a latch; and she opened the door upon two little half-naked children, all alone. Very cold and pitiful they looked.
“Do you take care of yourselves, little ones?” asked the good woman.
“God takes care of us,” said the oldest.
“And are you not very cold? No fire on a day like this!”
“Oh, when we are very cold, we creep under the quilt, and I put my arms around Tommy, and Tommy puts his arms around me, and we say, ‘Now I lay me;’ then we get warm,” said the little girl.
“And what have you to eat, pray?”
“When granny comes home, she fetches us something. Granny says God has got enough. Granny calls us God’s sparrows; and we say ‘Our Father’ and ‘daily bread’ every day. God is our Father.”
Tears came into the good woman’s eyes. She had a mistrusting spirit herself; but these two little “sparrows,” perched in that cold upper chamber, taught her a sweet lesson of faith and trust, which she will never forget,—Selected.