Article February 26, 1979 Issue

A little maid who loved much

Carolyn Haywood

Long ago, in Bible times, after a war between nations, the winning army would take some of the people they had conquered home with them as slaves. This happened to a little girl of Israel when the Syrians made war on her country. The Bible tells us about this in II Kings, Chapter 5.

There she is referred to as "a little maid" who was taken as a slave into the home of Naaman, captain of the Syrian army, to wait upon his wife. This captain had a disease called leprosy. But he was a good man, and the little maid wanted to help him.

Instead of resenting and hating her master because she had been captured and separated from her people, she wanted her captor to be healed. She knew God could heal, and she knew about Elisha, the prophet who was in Samaria. He had brought a boy who had died back to life and had done other wonderful things, because he was a holy man. So the girl told Naaman's wife that Elisha could heal her husband.

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