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HE THOUGHT HE LOST HIS ARROWA young boy once shot an arrow in the air. Its flight was so high that he soon lost sight of it and failed to find where it had landed. He spent a long time looking for the arrow in the meadow, but in vain.Thirty years passed by. The boy was now a man and visited the haunts of his boyhood. Walking around the meadow, he gazed at an oak that frequently sheltered him from the sun rays in his younger days. He paused under the old tree and found a curious feather protruding from a hollow in the tree. As he drew out the “feather,” he realized it was the arrow he thought was lost many years ago.Is not this often true of the efforts of God’s children? They speak in the ears of sinners; they give a tract; they utter an exhortation, or tell someone about the things of God. They often do not see where their efforts’ “arrow” landed. It is impossible for them to track it as it enters the mysterious regions of one’s mind, and they too often deem it lost.Often, it is not lost. It has done its work. Either in future years or in eternity, that effort, like the long-lost arrow, shall come back to its owner bringing with it a blessing and even the reward of a duty faithfully performed.