The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-03-01
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Tried and Proved.

Jessie'S grandfather is sick ma am"
said one of my little scholars, as l inquired
after the absent Jessie.
" | am very sorry" said and, to prove
that | was sorry, l started bright and early
the next morning to visit Jessie and her
grandfather. knocked at the door of one
of their two rooms, and the grand father 8
voice said, "Come in" l found only old
Mr. Fuller in the room he said he felt bet
ter, and that Jessie had gone with her math-
es as usual.
Mr.. Fuller was a shoe member, and near
his work bench stood little table that held
all the books he and Jessie owned between
them. | noticed that from one of them a
number of threads we're hanging, and said,
" Does your Bible need binding?"
"No, Miss, said he; those threads all
tell me something. l will tell you, he add.
ed, as he saw my puzzled look: "when |
was young man was very bad and wild,
and did not care for God or Bible; but when
my poor old mother died, she had nothing to
leave her hayward son but her Bible-her
marriage Bible. | didn't care for it any
more then than did before. But one day
| found tract that was headed, Come unto
me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and will give you rest. l could not get
chose words out Of my head, and as | went
to my work everything seemed to say, Come,
and rest. | WASH tired and didn't want
rest, and therefore tried to get the words out
of my head. But God wanted me to come,
and so he took His own way to bring me. A
few weeks after l had found the tract, Jes-
sizes mother died, and then her father went
off to Australia and left little Jessie for me
to take care of.
"Then l was hurt so that l couldn' walk.
and still came the word, "Come.' At last
thought, maybe God will give me rest from
my pain, if l try Him. So took the old
Bible and, strange to say, l opened Just al
the very words; SO | thought, { L will try
God and see.
"But you see, Miss, wasn't used to the
Bible, because l had wasted all the best
years of my life, and it took long time to
find the places. So one day, as l was sew
ing an old shoe, 1 thought, I'll just put q
thread in at my verse, so that can find il
when l want to read it and think if God
really wants me to come to Him., for by
that time had begun to think of my sins
and wasted life. So put the thread in, and
after that found many other verses, and al
each one put thread.
CAT last I really came to God with my
sins and found that He was waiting for me-
And so l tried first and then proved that the
Come was for me; then l put knot in
the end of the thread, to show that it was
proved. For my eyesight is poor, and
can't read very well, and the thread saves
time and eyes. l have found many other
verses to try, and at each l put thread
and, as they become clear, and l can use
them and prove them, as l call it, | put ii
the knots that you see.
"And God has been very good to me and
has not thrown me off, for l have tried anG
proved Him, through His Word. There are
many others just as good: Seek and "
shall find has knot too. p"
Old Mr.. Fuller'S way was not entirely
new to me. "Tried and proved" thought
as l walked home soon after, thinking of how
he had found Gods words so kind that they
can be tried and proved.-New York Oh
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