Mother Reunited with Daughter after Ten Years Apart

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Mother Reunited with Daughter After Ten Years Apart

We will tell you a story that really happened in the distant past about a poor German family. Together with love and the spirit of unity, the mother returned with her daughter after ten years of separation. I am alone, but I am not alone.

God’s true promises

Around the year 1754, when the flames of war broke out between the English and the French in Canada, the Indians sided with the French. One night, a group of Indians attacked a poor family coming from Germany, and neither the mother nor the eldest son was in the house.

The Indians killed the man, and took his ten-year-old daughters, Barbara, and nine-year-old Rogina, with a group of children. It is not known where they took Barbara, but they gave Rogina to an old widow who was very cruel and very ill-treated and humiliated.

I Am Alone, But I Am Not Alone!

Rogina was chanting a hymn she had learned from her mother: I am alone, but I am not alone. You are near me in this isolation of mine. My Savior is always near me. In moments of distress, he gives me joy. I am with him, and he is with me! Even here I can’t be alone without him!” Rogina prayed morning and night, trying to recite verses from the Bible that she had memorized, and found her comfort in biblical phrases, God’s true promises, and the hymn she learned from her mother.

The sight of her church, home, and friends did not leave her, and she hoped with faith that she would return. Her hope was never interrupted. In 1764, when Rogina reached the age of nineteen, an English military leader discovered the camp of the Indians, attacked it and freed more than 400 people who had been captured by the Indians, and brought them to the city of Carlisle.

The news spread, and the mothers came to the city, hoping to find their captive children. It was not easy for many of them to get to know their children, as the children forgot their language, and their appearance changed.

They met each other with love and a spirit of unity.

Regina’s mother was walking among the liberated captives, perhaps glimpsing Barbara and Rogina, and if she could not, she wept bitterly. In vain did the officials try to console her. Finally, someone said to her: “Do you remember anything with which you discover your daughters?” All I can remember is that we sang a hymn together: “I am alone, but I am not alone.”

The official asked her to stand among the libertines and sing the same hymn. Indeed, the mother stood chanting, and then she found a girl running towards her and sharing the same melody with her. The mother threw herself on Rogina’s neck and kissed her. They met together with love and the spirit of unity through God’s sincere promises and the living faith emanating from their hearts together!

The mother returned to her home with her missing daughter ten years ago, and she was repeating in her heart the words of the Apostle Paul: And that from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).