How Nyangandi Swam to Church
Nyangandi lived in west Africa, near the Ogowe River. She was going away from the missionary’s house one afternoon, where she had been to sell bunches of plantains to the missionary, when his wife said, “Now, you must not forget that you have promised to come tomorrow to church.”
“Yes,” the girl replied, “I will surely come if I am alive.”
The next morning she found that somebody had stolen her canoe, and no one would lend her one to go to church in. But she had promised to go, and she felt that she must. She swam all the way! The current was swift, the water deep, and the river fully a third of a mile wide, but by swimming diagonally she succeeded in crossing the river.
Remember this little girl of west Africa when you feel tempted to stay away from the house of God for some trivial reason.