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BLIND MICE AND MEN
By Doris Coffin Aldrich
Martha S. Hooker
HREE blind mouse: Three blind mouse,” sang Annette as she put her dolly to bed. “ Rat,” suggested Timmie, who was building blocks near by. “No, mice,” corrected Becky who goes to kindergarten. “ Three blind mouse,” continued Net, carefully tucking in the blankets. “ But Net, it isn’t mouse!” said Becky. “ It’s mice and you shouldn’t say it that way!” “I don’t care,” answered Annette, “ I like it that way.” “ But it’s wrong that way. Make her say it, right, Mommie.” Mommie looked at the twins and Net and then at Becky’s worried little face. She laughed to herself because they were so upset over the mouse . . . rat . . . no, mice! “ The thing is,” she said, “ that it doesn’t really matter what you call them.” Becky opened her mouth, and so Mommie hurried on. “ The thing that really mattered was that they were all blind, poor things.” “An’ they got their tails cut off?” added Timmie, nodding his head wisely.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER By Elizabeth Killough M OTHER always kept her Bible beside her bed so that in the morning she could look up a little verse to memorize for that day. Small Mary would often run in early, asking eagerly, “What did you find today, Mamma?” One morning Mother said, “Mary, I have found something especially for you today. Listen carefully and repeat it after me: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.’ This is a command, Mary; you must love and keep on loving, no matter what happens. Jesus said this was very important.” Mary was very quiet, for she knew what Mother meant. She had been the only child in the home and had never had to share or put herself out for anyone before, but now with little Janice sharing her room, her toys and her friends, things had become very upsetting. Mother had brought Janice from a “Home” to be company for Mary, but Janice was mean; she broke Mary’s dolls and she just spoiled everything. Mary was very unhappy and often wished it was time for Janice to go back to the “Home.” Mary walked thoughtfully back to her room. There sat Janice with Mary’s new dress and a pair of scissors in her hands! Yes, Janice was actually cutting holes in Mary’s dress. Mary stood in the doorway, horrified. Janice, seeing her, laughed, and then grew silent. Mary would have run forward and hit her, but her mother’s words were still ring ing in her ears: “ This means, Mary, that we must love our friends and keep on loving them, no matter what.” Mary found herself saying, “ Janice, I don’t care what you do. I still love you.” Janice suddenly sat down on the floor and sobbed and sobbed. Mary had never heard her cry before. She hurried for ward and sat down beside her; then, putting her arms around her, she cried too. Then just as suddenly they both began to laugh, and that too was the first time they had really laughed together, although they had often laughed at one another. Janice never did go back to the “ Home.” Love saw to that. BIBLE MOTHERS Match the following by -placing the correct number before the name of the Bible Mother suggested by the following quotations: 1. “ My soul doth magnify the Lord” .............................Eunice 2. “ 0 Lord of hosts . . . give unto thine handmaid a man child” ..............................................................Hagar 3. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God” ........................................................................ Sarah 4. She “bare a son: and when she saw that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months” ..........Rebekah 5. “ When I call to remembrance the . . . faith which dwelt first in thy grandmother . . . and thy mother” ............................................................. Elisabeth 6. “And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come tome” ................................................. Eve 7. “ Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed . . . [she] shall have a son” ..........Jochebed 8. “ The mother of all living” . ........................................ Ruth* 9. “ Thou God seest me” ..................... Mary 10. “ Behold, the eamels werecoming” ............................ Hannah
“Yes, they did,” answered Mommie. “ Poor blind things, running in all directions because they couldn’t see. The name wasn’t the main thing . . . but the blindness.” “ And it’s like that with people, too,” thought Mommie. “ Some say, ‘Oh, I believe this, and I go to that church.’ Others pride themselves on doing this good thing and be longing to a group called by another name. “ But if they are not really Christians, and do not know thè Lord, it doesn’t matter what they are called—they’re blind. The important thing is to see, and we can’t see until our eyes have been opened by the Lord Jesus Christ. We can’t know God until we’ve seen Jesus as our Saviour.” Years ago there was a blind beggar named Bartimaeus. One day, the Lord Jesus Christ came by. Bartimaeus called out, “Jesus . . . have mercy on me.” The Lord heard him, and asked what he wanted and Bar timaeus answered. “ That I might receive my sight.” What did the Lord do? Why, He healed his blindness and Bartimaeus could see! Bartimaeus got right up and followed Jesus. Not only his blind eyes, but his blind heart had been made to see. The poor blind mice had no one to help them; they scur ried wildly in all directions. Bartimaeus had the Lord to heal his blind eyes, and more—his blind heart. And we need not scurry in darkness, not knowing which way to turn. The Lord Jesus Christ said, “ I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” And He opened our eyes to see the light, that wonderful light which He can be to every dark and blinded heart which will yet Him shine in.
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