Ried, and heard of those boys? They interested me
from the first, and what he told me about his sister increased the
interest. Then when I saw them!--Evan, if ever boys were in the power of
Satan they are; and to think that they may have an inheritance among
them which are sanctified! This morning when I saw where some some of
them lived, and imagined how they lived, I fell stunned for a moment. It
seemed to me impossible. What means could possibly be found of
sufficient power to fit them for such an inheritance? And then directly
came the closing words of the commission: 'Through faith that is in me.'
Evan, God will save them; and I think he will let me help."
"Amen!" said Mr. Roberts, and his voice was husky. When his wife was in
one of her exalted moods he always admired her with a sort of reverence.
He had been for years an earnest worker. He carried business plans and
business principles into the work; he studied cause and effect, and
calculated and expected certain results to follow certain causes, like a
mathematical problem; not that he by any means forgot the power of
faith, or in any sense attempted to do his work alone. He was a
Christian who spent much time on his knees; but little Flossy brought
so much of the childlike, unquestioning spirit into her work, that
sometimes he stood in awe, not knowing whether he could follow her.
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