SHE WANTED TO GIVE ALL

In a Chinese School for Blind Children, there was one girl who seemed too dull and stupid to be taught anything. A lady visitor asked how she might help. The nurse said, “Give that poor little girl a piece of money. She has never possessed a coin of her own.” So the child received a five cent coin, to her great delight. Each day, she planned some fresh way of spending it, sometimes keeping it herself, and sometimes giving it to the nurse to take care of it for her. Now a meeting was to be held at Foochow for the Bible Society, and this child knew that it supplied the school with Chinese Gospels in embossed type for the blind. She was too ill to go to the meeting, but she asked the nurse to take her five-cent coin and put it in the collection box. The nurse said, “Half of it would be enough. It is all you have. Let me change it, and then you can give part and keep part.” But the blind girl insisted on giving all she had. She said, “No, I have never been able to give God anything before; I want to give it all.” - Christian Live Sunday School Paper, Knight’s Master Book of New Illustrations, WB Knight, Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1973.