ave ever seen. I said to
her, "I don't understand it." She says, "I want to tell you about that
boy. That boy is the son of a missionary. His father and mother were
missionaries in India, but they found they had got to bring their
children back to this country to educate them. So they gave up their
mission field and came back to educate their children and to find some
missionary work to do in this country. But they were not prospered here
as they had been in India, and the father said, "I will go back to
India;" and the mother said, "If God has called you to go I am sure it
will be my duty to go and my privilege to go, and I will go with you."
The father said, "you have never been separated from the children, and
it will be hard for you to be separated from them; perhaps you had
better stay and take care of them."

But after prayer they decided to leave their children to be educated,
and they left for India. This lady heard of it and sent a letter to the
parents, in which she stated if they left one child at her house she
would treat it like one of her own children. She said the mother came
and spent a few days at her house, and being satisfied that her boy
would receive proper care, consented to leave him, and the night before
she was to leave him, the missionary said to the Western lady: "I want
to leave my boy tomorrow morning without a tear;" said she, "I may never
see him again." But she didn't want him to think she was weeping for
anything she was doing for the Master. The lady said to herself, "She
won't leave that boy without a tear." But the next day when the carriage
drove up to the door, the lady went up stairs and she heard the mother
in prayer, crying, "Oh God, give me strength for this hour. Help me to
go away from my boy without a tear." When she came down there was a
smile upon her face. She hugged him and she kissed him, but she smiled
as she did it. She gave up all her five or six children without shedding
a tear, went back to India and in about a year there came a voice, "Come
up hither." Do you think she would be a stranger in the Lord's world?
Don't you think she will be known there as a mother that loved her
child?

"Emma, this is Papa's Friend."

A gentleman one day came to my office for the purpose of getting me
interested in a young man who had just got out of the penitentiary. "He
says," said the gentleman, "he don't want to go to the office, but I
want your permission to bring him in an