68 BIBLE CHILD LIFE.

The king then asked the woman if that was true which
Gehazi had been telling him, and she said it was. The
king was so much affected by the story that he told an
officer to give the woman all that belonged to her, and all
the ‘‘fruits of the field” which had grown on her land
from the time she left until then.

Do you not see how the Lord cared for this woman and
her family all the time after she began to work for him
by providing for his servant? He has said, ‘Give, and it
shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, and
shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your
bosom.” And the Lord is just as ready to take care of
every one of us as he was of that Shunammite woman, if
we too will only work for him.