The Right Key

KATHERINE ENGLISH

Suppose one had a big box which had many beautiful treasures inside, and yet one could not take out a single thing because the box was locked. One might be told about the things which were in it, but could never use them until he had found the right key, fitted it into the right place, and opened the box. Then he could have what had been there all the time waiting to be used.

The Bible is like a great treasure chest, but the treasures, the jewels, it holds for us are not things, but thoughts and promises, expressed in beautiful words, which are as clear as crystal, as bright as diamonds, as precious as pure gold. Many years after Jesus was seen on earth the people lost the use of the master key, and while many knew that the Bible was full of wonderful things, its treasures were as if locked up, because no one knew how properly to use this key—spiritual understanding; and so it was neither understood nor enjoyed as it might have been.

But there came a time when a little girl, who loved to be good and obedient, grew up to be a good and loving woman, having thought a great deal about the treasures in the Bible of which her mother had told her when she was a little girl. She thought about Jesus' healing sick people, comforting sad and fearful ones, loving little children. She wondered what it was he knew about God that made him able to help them so much, and she wished that she could know it too. And she prayed to God, whom she knew as her heavenly Father, to teach her how to help children and grown-up people in trouble, for she loved them.

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