An incident.
--The following beautiful extract, from a New Orleans paper, will be read with interest.
Every child should be taught the same lesson.
Were this so, how grand in moral strength would the rising generation become:
A touching case was presented to the consideration and charity of one of the good
Samaritans who now take care of the sick, relieve the destitute, and feed the starving.
A boy was discovered in the morning lying in the grass of Claiborne street, evidently bright and intelligent, but sick.
A man, who has the feelings of kindness strongly developed, went to him, shook him by the shoulder, and asked, what he was doing there.--‘"
Walling for God to come for me,"’ said he, ‘"What do you mean?"’ said the gentleman, greatly touched by the pathetic tone of the answer and the condition of the boy, in whose eye and flushed face he saw the evidences of the fever.
‘"God sent for mother and father, and my little brother,"’ said he, ‘"and took them away to his home up in the sky, and mother told me when she was sick that God would take care of me. I have no home, nobody to give me anything, and so I came out here, and have been looking so long up in the sky for God to come and take care of me as mother said he would.
He will come, won't he?--Mother never told me a lie."’ ‘"Yes, my lad, "’ said the man, overcome with emotion, ‘"he has sent me to take care of you. "’ You should have seen his eyes flash, and the smile of triumph break over his face, as he said, ‘"Mother never told me a lie, sir; but you've been so long on the way." ’--What a lesson of trust, and how this incident shows the effect of never deceiving children with idle tales.
As the poor mother expected, when she told her son ‘"God would take care of him,"’ He did by touching the heart of this benevolent man with compassion and love to the little stranger.
