The story of Mary Jones and her Bible . , rejoined Mary, For six years I put by all my little earn-ings, and since then it has come natural. You did get your Bible, then ? Yes, indeed ; this is the very one, andrising from her seat Mary took the muchprized volume from the little table in thecottage, and put it into her visitors hands. Youthful Promise Fulfilled. 139 Betsy looked at it, inside and out, thenhanded it back saying, I really believe,Mary, that this Bible is one of the reasonswhy you are so different from all the rest ofus. Youve read and studied and learnt somuch of it, that your t
The story of Mary Jones and her Bible . , rejoined Mary, For six years I put by all my little earn-ings, and since then it has come natural. You did get your Bible, then ? Yes, indeed ; this is the very one, andrising from her seat Mary took the muchprized volume from the little table in thecottage, and put it into her visitors hands. Youthful Promise Fulfilled. 139 Betsy looked at it, inside and out, thenhanded it back saying, I really believe,Mary, that this Bible is one of the reasonswhy you are so different from all the rest ofus. Youve read and studied and learnt somuch of it, that your thoughts and wordsand life are full of it. And Mary turned her bright dark eyes,now full of happy tears, upon her companion,and answered in a broken voice— O Betsy dear, if there is a little, even alittle truth in what you kindly say of me, Ithank God that in His great mercy and loveHe suffers me, poor and weak and simpleas I am, to show forth in my small way Hisglory, and the truth of His blessed Word. NunqtiamFrustra. BW5BBWBSSSB5SB. ~& Never inVain. {From a Bible in the Societys Library.)
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