Faith

(hildlike, The first summer the war broke out I heard in the fall of that same year something that touched my heart. A poor woman had been made a widow by the war. In mid-winter time she heard that her husband had been cut down. She had two little children, and she did not know what would become of her; her health was not very good, and she had no money.

A few days after the landlord came around for his rent. He was a poor, heartless wretch, and when she told him her husband was dead and she could not pay her rent, he said, with an oath, that he would not have any one in his house who could not pay.

After he had gone she threw herself in the rocking-chair and wept; her little girl came to her and said: ‘“‘Mamma, does not God answer prayer?” “Yes, my child.” And the child wanted to put in practice what she had heard her mother preach. She said: “Then won’t he take care of us if we ask him?”

“I suppose he will.” “Then may I go and ask him to take care of us?”

“Yes, my child, you may if you want to.” The lady told me ef it the next day, and she said the child never looked so sweet to her as when she went into the room where her mother had taught her to pray.

The door was open a little way, and she could see her; she put up her hands and her curls lay back from her face and she said, “Oh, Father! you came and took away my dear papa; he was killed in the war; my mamma has no money to pay the landlord the rent, and he is going to turn us out doors. We will sit on the doorstep and catch cold and die unless you lend us a little house to live in.”

Then she went to her mother and said, “Jesua will take care of us, because I have asked him.” There is faith for you! They did not have te pay any rent, a house was soon provided, and that widow and her children were taken care . Moody.