MUCHUMA A Martha L. Muir UCHUMA was just a little, skinny, black boy. At least he was black in the spots where he was not a dirty white from rolling in the sand. Perhaps he was ten years old, perhaps less; but that does not matter. Age does not count for much in Africa. On tH|s particular day his eyes were shining with excitement, for the “red” missionary lady had come to his village. Her hut was near by, and though he could not hear a word she said, he could see her and he thought she was very queer looking, and interesting to watch. The old cracked drum was beaten in a rolling call, and soon the boys and girls gathered under the low, round, grass roof, for their siicola (school). They were all there; all except Senda; “She had to go on a journey,” someone explained. The missionary looked at the six boys, and four girls gathered in her hut, an average class for Africa. She was happy that they had come, .and soon she began to teach them the words to a lovely chorus, A nji zema Yesu cm (Jesus Loves Me). Among the bright eager faces, she saw one that looked even more eager than the rest; his eyes shone a little brighter, and his expression was more intent than the others were. She noticed that his lips did not move quite like the rest; somehow he seemed to look at the mouths of the other boys and girls, before he quite knew what to do with his own. His wide appealing eyes were so wistful! He watched the missionary’s face very closely. One of the larger boys, glancing in Muchuma’s direction, arid seeing his queer attempts to say the words the missionary was teaching, gig gled, and then gave him a poke in the ribs to stop his efforts, for how could a boy who had “no ears and no voice” sing? Looking very hurt and puzzled, Muchuma stopped try ing. The missionary decided that the little black boy with the shiny eyes was deaf. Pobr Muchuma! For all of his life he had never heard the birds sing, nor his mother’s or fath er’s voice, nor the happy chatter of his playmates, nor the village drum calls, nor anything else for that matter. The missionary lady was worried. If Muchuma was deaf, how could she tell him of the precious Lord Jesus who loved him enough to die on the cross for him? She wanted him to know about the Saviour who said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Oh, how could the PAGE TWENTY-FOUR
A Iiilie> Poem For Christian Boys and Girls
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Muchuma wished that he could hear what the missionary lady was saying. black boy be made to understand this! Big tears came into the mis sionary’s pretty brown eyes as she quickly and silently asked the heav enly Father to help her to find a way to let Muchuma know about Jesus. In the meantime, she smiled at him, nodded her head, trying to tell him that he could sing even though his mouth did go funny, and only queer noises came out. How could she tell him of the Saviour? Presently the heavenly Father an swered her prayer, and helped her to know how to bring the message of salvation to the black boy. The missionary touched her heart, point ed upward, then stretched out her arms, wide apart, telling Muchuma something like this: “I have given my heart to Jesus who lives up in heaven". He is my Saviour and he loves me and everybody else very much.” The other boys and girls, seeing the missionary trying to make Muchuma understand, helped her. One of the older boys, who had ac cepted Jesus as his Saviour the night before, pointed to his own heart, then upward, and then to the other boys and girls, finally touched the deaf boy’s heart, and then pointed upward again. A bright smile swept over Muchuma’s face, and the mis sionary, and the black boys and girls in the class all knew that he had learned that the Lord Jesus loved him, and had given his heart to the Saviour. Deaf Muchuma had become a Christian!
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