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C oco, as the missionaries called him, was a little African boy. His home was a mud hut in a dark forest in Africa. He did not know and love the Lord Jesus and so did many naughty things. Sad to relate he loved to steal and to m in other people’s things. He did this again and again and really seemed to enjoy it. He didn’t use the things he stole but just threw them away. One day he saw Kokawaita playing with he favorite stick doll. She had made it herself. When she wasn’t looking, Coco snatched it and ran through the forest to his mud hut. He decided that instead of tearing it up and throwing it away he would hang it in a high tree. What a dreadful thing to do with Kokawaita’s doll! After the doll was hoisted up into a tree, Coco went back to see what Kokawaita was doing. He found her with her mother and heard her say, “Mama, Mama, I can’t find my doll anywhere.” “You’ll have to make an other one,” replied her mother. Kokawaita, always obedient, made another doll, but she still loved the first one better and longed to hold her in her arms again. Although Coco knew of Kokawaita’s sorrow and long ing, he made no effort to return her much loved doll. Two days later something wonder ful happened to make Coco1a new boy. He saw a lady with a white face. She spoke to him so kindly and asked in his own language, “What is your name?” “ Coco,” he answered. The white lady asked, “W ill you come with me?” Of course Coco said, “Yes,” because he wanted to see what this strange lady with the white face would do and say. This lady was a missionary who loved little boys like Coco. She took him to her own African home where many African children were already waiting for her return. Soon after Coco found a place to sit among the other children, the white faced lady began to speak of a man named Jesus. She said He died on a cross for all the people in the world — that He died for all the bad things they did called sins. She also told them that Jesus not only died but rose from the tomb on the third day and is now alive forevermore longing to save boys and girls. Coco listened to every word. After the meeting closed he asked the white lady, “How can I get rid of my sins?” She gladly explained to him what APRIL, 1959
have stolen.” The very next day Coco rescued Kokawaita’s stick doll from the tree and gave it to her. How happy she was to see her beloved doll again! When Coco returned the doll, he told Kokawaita about the white-faced missionary lady and invited her to the white lady’s house for the children’s meeting. Kokawaita must have seen a real change in Coco for she accepted the invitation at once. At the chil dren’s meeting, she too heard the white lady tell the wonderful story of the Lord Jesus and of His love for little children. Like Coco, she asked the Lord Jesus to come into her heart, and another African child was bom again. Coco had become a missionary!
it meant to believe on the Lord Jesus Who died for him and rose from the dead. Then she read the lovely verse in Revelation 3:20, “ Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man (boy or girl) will ask me to come in, I will come in.” Coco asked the Lord Jesus to come into his heart and wash away his sins; and the Lord Jesus came into Coco’s heart and washed away his sins just as He said He would. From that moment, Coco became a new boy. He was bom again and became a mem ber of God’s family. “What shall I do about all the bad things I have done, like taking things that have not belonged to me?” the new Coco asked. The missionary lady said, “ Give back all the things you
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