An Eye Witness Account from
New York City, on a cold day
in December: A
little boy about 10 years old was
standing before a shoe store
on the roadway, 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 at her, with tears his eyes, answered
the question with these
words: "Are you God's Wife?"