God's Care

        A wild storm was raging round a prairie home one night.  The windows were blown in, and no lights could be kept burning.  It was only with difficulty that the doors could be braced against the blast.  The father was away from home, and the mother, grandmother, and three children sat in the darkness in a room on the sheltered side of the house, fearing that at any moment it might be swept from its foundation by the force of the wind.  Suddenly, eleven-year old Walter was missed.  He had been holding a whispered conversation with his grandmother only a few moments before.  Frantic with fear, the mother called him at the top of her voice, and receiving no reply, started to grope her way through the darkness of the house.  She found the missing boy in bed, fast asleep.  And when she asked him how he could go to sleep when they were all in danger of death, he sleepily replied, "Why, grandmother told me God would take care of us, so I thought I might as well go to bed again."

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