When we got home I asked him
for the story, and he said, "All that family were won by a smile."
"Why," said I, "how's that?" "Well," said he, "as I was walking down a
street one day I saw a child at a window; it smiled, and I smiled, and
we bowed. So it was the second time; I bowed, she bowed. It was not long
before there was another child, and I had got in a habit of looking and
bowing, and pretty soon the group grew, and at last, as I went by, a
lady was with them. I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to bow to
her, but I knew the children expected it, and so I bowed to them all.
And the mother saw I was a minister, because I carried a Bible every
Sunday morning. So the children followed me the next Sunday and found I
was a minister. And they thought I was the greatest preacher, and their
parents must hear me. A minister who is kind to a child and gives him a
pat on the head, why the children will think he is the greatest preacher
in the world. Kindness goes a great way. And to make a long story short,
the father and mother and five children were converted, and they are
going to join our church next Sunday."

Won to Christ by a smile! We must get the wrinkles out of our brows, and
we must have smiling faces.

A Little Boy's Experience.

One day as a young lady was walking up the street, she saw a little boy
running out of a shoemaker's shop, and behind him was the old shoemaker
chasing him with a wooden last in his hand. He had not run far until the
last was thrown at him, and he was struck in the back. The boy stopped
and began to cry. The Spirit of the Lord touched that young lady's
heart, and she went to where he was. She stepped up to him, and asked
him if he was hurt. He told her it was none of her business. She went to
work then to win that boy's confidence. She asked him if he went to
school. He said, "No." "Well, why don't you go to school?" "Don't want
to." She asked him if he would not like to go to Sunday school. "If you
will come," she said, "I will tell you beautiful stories and read nice
books." She coaxed and pleaded with him, and at last said that if he
would consent to go, she would meet him on the corner of a street which
they should agree upon. He at last consented, and the next Sunday, true
to his promise, he waited for her at the place designated. She took him
by the hand and led him into the Sabbath-school "Can you give me a place
to teach this little boy?" she asked of the superintenden