On a cold day in
December, a little boy, about 10 years, old was standing before a shoe store on
the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A
lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking
so earnestly in that window?”
"I was asking God to
give me a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply. The lady took him by the
hand and went into the store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of
socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a
towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back
part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet,
and dried them with a towel.
By this time the clerk
had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased
him a pair of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to
him. She patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, my little fellow, you
feel more comfortable now?" .As she turned to go, the astonished lad
caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears his eyes,
answered the question with these words: "Are you God's Wife?"
