Six pairs of little hands were
lifted up, as they said, "God knows we have not got them;" but this
only called forth the reply, "I think that God knows you have got
them," and she searched each one carefully, without finding them.
She then proposed to kneel down where they stood, and ask God to
show where they were, adding, "He may not see it best to show me
now, but he will do it some time." She laid the matter before the
Lord, and, just as they rose from their knees, remembered that she
had not examined their cloth caps. She now proposed to examine them,
and one pair of hands went right up to her cap. Of course she was
searched first, and there were the six pins, so nicely concealed in
its folds that nothing was visible but their heads. This incident
did much good. The pupils looked on the discovery as an answer to
prayer, and so did their teacher. They began to be afraid to steal
when God so exposed their thefts, and she was thankful for an answer
so immediate. The offender is now a pious, useful woman.
Yet some were so accustomed to falsehood, that, even after
conversion, it cost a struggle to be entirely truthful, and
missionaries could see, as Christians in our own land cannot see,
why an apostle should write to the regenerate, "Lie not one to
another.
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