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“I’m so glad to hear this, children,” said Mrs. Mason as she kissed them both. “You can begin your missiohary work this very afternoon.” “Now?” “Yes. I have just been to see Mrs. Slovinsky, a crippled old woman who Speaks very little English. She and Billy, an orphan boy, have just moved into Junk Town. Billy has to work hard to earn a living for both of them. And you know, dears, he wants an education' so much that I have offered to give him private lessons so that he may enter Junior High with you two' in the fall.” During the following months the three children became good friends. John and Joan often helped Billy with his work as well as with his lessons. The twins were able to save enough money to pay their way to camp, and how happy they were about their plans to go! Billy was eager to go, too, but of course he could hot think of it, for all the money he earned had to go to his mother so she could pay their bills. The afternoon before the children were to leave for camp, the twins were surprised to see their family doctor on their porch, waiting for them as they came up the walk.
“Joan and John,” he said kindly, “your moth«- is very ill, and she is going to need two strong young peo ple like you. I hope she will: be well soon, but I cannot promise that she will ever get well at all. With the hospitals so crowded, we are going to take care of her right here, and the nurse whom I’m sending will need both of you to help with the-house work and run errands. How about it? I can count on you, can’t I?” Joan’s eyes filled with hot tears, for she loved her mother very ’ dearly. Then she thought of the camp. “Why,” she safd to herself, “ that means we can’t go!” But she swallowed hard and prom ised, “I’ll do my best, Doctor.” “ Sure, Doctor,” mumbled John, his eyes on the floor. • .
f * ^HE MASON twins raced each other home from the Sunday- JL school p a r t y that Saturday afternoon. “Mother, Mother!” Joan called as she and John rushed through the liv ing room. “Where ar6 you? Some thing has happened.” “It was done at our party,” John added breathlessly. Mrs. Mason looked worried. “I hope that whatever you two did, it Was something that will make your father and me glad.” Mr. Mason was far away, helping to win the war. “Don’t worry,” exclaimed Joan. "It’s good news all right. Only it’s a long stbry. You see, there were special visitors at our party—boys and girls who went to camp last summer for. a whole week’s vacation.” “They’re going to have another camp just like it again- this summer,” John put in excitedly. “Mother,, we want to go! May we?” A Before Mrs. Mason could answer, John continued, “They went hiking and swimming and horseback riding. And they had lots of good eats, and campfire meetings, and stories. Some1 of the children accepted Jesus as their Saviour, and some—-well, some even gave their lives to God, to be come missionaries.” “Mother,” Joan added, “John and I gave our hearts to JesuS this after noon to be missionaries, too. That’s our good news.” *Mrs. Dundas is the .author of a number of helpful devotional books among which is “ Leadings o f a Prayer Answering God”—a testimony of her experience with the Lord. 32 pages . The Gospel Press, P. O. Box 6059, Cleveland, Ohio, or the Biola Book Room, 560 So. Hope St„ Los Angeles 13, Calif. Price 15 cents. «
The twins tiptoed into their mother’s room. “We’re going to be the nurse’s helpers,” t h e y whispered cheerily. They must be brave, they told them selves, for had they not given then- hearts to the Lord Jesus? Had they not told Him they were ready to be missionaries? And missionaries were always ready to do, the Lord’s bid ding, even if it meant that they had to set aside their own plans. • Junior King's Business By MAR THA S. HOOKER
Member of Faculty Bible Institute of Los Angeles
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