Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Her Best. [ARTICLE]

Her Best.

Mrs. Molesworth, who writes a moving article in the volume entitled “Woman’s Work,” concerning the necessity of obtaining “fun, food and fresh air” for all classes of children, says that there are among London’s poor thousands of little ones who never had a toy. Yet still the child’s instinct to “make believe” surmounts every practical obstacle, and there is a true story of one little sufferer from a chronic disease whose only playthings were the spots of damp on the wall beside her bed. She played they were real and alive; she gave them names and imaginary qualities. Another true story shows how far the little candle of a wise and loving word may throw its beams. A teacher at a Sunday school for London’s poor was trying to impress upon her little pupils some Idea of the real meaning of giving. “Whatever it may be,” she said, “our offering to God should be of our best, of what we prize most.” In one baby heart her words found ready response. Next day a little creature confided her offering to the teacher; it was a carefully tied package, containing a few grains of rice. This was her mostprecious and perhaps her only treasure.