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Show A kind missionary lady returning to the capital, kept her friendly wing over him all the long way, until she landed him safely with the blindman's best friend, dear Mr. Murray, in Peking. Seldom has the school had a brighter pupil. A great wave of prayer followed him from Pang Chuang. Thus helped in both directions, he prospered. He found in the school twenty-two pupils, varying in age from ten years to fifty. Some, working away for three months h a d not learned t o read. One had failed after a whole year of trial, but his heart was not in it. Some, who h a d done hard manual l a b o r at home, found their fingers too callous. Our shopkeeper h ad dainty hands. He had intense longing and earnest purpose. He prayed with passionate desire, and worked with all his might. At the end of the month he read well. Punching the Braille dots had great fascination for him. In time, he had copied nearly the whole Bible, and most of the four hundred hymns in the hymn book. AVhen a winsome soul is in the baby robin THE CABY ORGAN IS HIS BELL TO CALL PEOPLE TOGETHER. |