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Show ing in the strength of its early love, had answered, "Yes." Ah! but should he send this, his first and only dime? It was his own, bis very own; he had toiled so hard to earn it, surely he could not be expected to part with it thus. Then came the remembrance of the pastor's words, and the thought, "Christ died for these little boys and girls, and they do not know it." He was generous and impulsive, and in a moment his heart was all astir with pity and love. " Yes, I will do i t " he cried. "I will take my precious dime and send a Testament to one of those boys.-" He bought it, a neat little Testament; and on the fiy-leaf the pastor wrote the words, '' From Willie Gray, to a little boy who has never heard of Jesus," and beneath it the words, "For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another." Out in a rude settlement in Dakota lived a herdsman and his little son. Years before, he had settled there, and the bright-eyed boy, his only companion, had never heard the name of Jesus. In his baby-hood the mother had died, and the father, never a Christian, had |