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Some years
ago, a little Jewish girl in Russia learned large
portions of the New Testament from a boy who had committed them to memory.
One day, upon the arrival of her father, after an absence, she ran to meet
him, and said, "I do love Jesus; He loved little children." This
angered the father, and he forbade her to speak on the subject again. Soon
the child was stricken with scarlet fever, and the medical attendant gave no
hope for her recovery. A gentile woman was called to nurse the child, as the
Jews feared the fever. The woman quoted the verse of a hymn; and the father
of little Deborah offered the deathbed prayer of the Jews. Then the child
opened her eyes and repeated accurately the story of Jairus' daughter. When
she finished her head fell back, and to all appearance she was gone. In an
agony of mind the father fell down at the feet of Jesus and besought him,
saying, "O Jesus, thou who didst raise up the daughter of Jairus, raise
up little Deborah, and I will believe in thee as Israel's
Messiah." That cry of agony was heard, and the child rose from her couch
of death, and the Jewish family was converted to Christianity. -- The
Illustrator
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