An aged man was talking to a servant of the Lord.

"Sir, I am going to tell you how I, a white-headed sinner, was led to become a child of God. One day, as I was taking a walk, I met a little boy who stopped before me and politely bowing, said with his sweet voice: 'Please sir, will you accept this tract, and will you please read it?"

"To that day, I always hated Christian tracts and when someone dared to offer one to me I would get very angry and swear in a terrible manner. But this: 'If you please, Sir' went right to my heart. I couldn't have sworn in front of this little boy so well behaved and with his kind, 'if you please, Sir'! That I will never forget; oh! no, no! Contrary to my habit, I took the tract and thanking him I promised to read it. So I read it and the reading of it was blessed to my soul. I was led to see that I was a sinner and that Jesus Christ is my Saviour. This tract was the means of bringing me to Christ and this 'if you please, Sir' was the key used to open my hardened heart."

Is this story not encouraging for young people who desire to spread the Word of God and to be instruments in the hands of God to lead some soul to Jesus?

The Bible has its child heroes too! It was a child who secured the best possible nurse for Moses when he was in dire need of one (see Exodus 2).

It was a child who informed a field-marshal how he could be cleansed of his leprosy (see 2 Kings 5).

It was a child who brought the five barley loaves and two small fishes which the Lord used to feed the hungry multitude (see John 6).

It was children whom the Lord called to Him and said: "Of such is the kingdom of God" (see Luke 18).

It was a child to whom the Lord revealed His mind in the days of Israel's failure (see 2 Samuel 3).

It was a child who became king of Israel and purged the land of idolatry and repaired the house of the Lord (see 2 Chronicles 34 & 35).

It was a child whose mother and grandmother taught the Holy Scriptures which made him wise unto salvation through faith in Jesus Christ (see 2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15).