eased friend earnestly engaged
instead of taking a vacation in the hot summer months. In her diary we
find the following concerning one of these summer seasons:

"It has been a great privilege, during the summer months, to be
able to make so many poor mother's happy, by taking them and their
children to the sea-side for bathing and country air. There has
been much sickness in the tenement-houses. It is, indeed,
distressing often to see two sick in one bed, the others nearly
ready to be there, and the poor mothers, with but little means,
scarcely able to do their work and take care of the sick ones.

"It is then a happiness to obtain for them a little nourishment,
and to give them words of sympathy and encouragement. Many are
Roman Catholics, who seem surprised that I should take any interest
in them, as they said it was more than their own people will do.

"A poor woman whom I visited, said: 'I will never again think that
Protestants cannot be saved, as I have been taught; and since I
have read the Bible, I intend to go to a Protestant church and hear
for myself.'

"The Catholics say to me, 'How different your prayers are from
ours. Why do you not pray to the Blessed Virgin?' I tell them that
we only pray to the Lord Jesus Christ, as He is the only Saviour.
While visiting lately in some wretched houses of infamy and talking
to the poor women, they would shed tears, and say that they would
like to live different lives, but it is so hard to begin to do
better. It is surprising to see with what attention they listen to
the words of Scripture and promise to read the Bible themselves."

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A WONDERFUL WORK.

Still continuing the record of her work, she writes: "During last month
I made two hundred and fifty visits, read the Scriptures as often as I
had the opportunity; have given two Bibles to persons who were too poor
to pay for them, and sold one.

"Several Roman Catholic women have asked for Bibles, and are reading
them with pleasure. One woman, whose husband called her a 'turn-coat,'
said she did not care for that, but that nothing should persuade her to
give up her Bible.

"I have induced several persons to attend church, and have taken
children to the Sabbath-school, thus trying to sow the seed, and
looking to God for His blessing.

"A poor man, ill with consumption, i