The story of Mary Jones and her Bible . Let no one saythat what he can give is but as a drop in thebucket, and therefore of no value. It is bythe tiny rills, that like a thread of silver windadown the hill-side—by the silent night dews,by the softly-falling rains, by the quiet springsthat swell among the peaty uplands—it is bythese that the river is formed ; by these thatit is fed and sustained in its mighty flow, inthe force and depth of the current that bearsgreat ships on its bosom, down, down to theocean. Not a drop is lost, nothing is value-less ; all goes to make up an inestimablypreciou
The story of Mary Jones and her Bible . Let no one saythat what he can give is but as a drop in thebucket, and therefore of no value. It is bythe tiny rills, that like a thread of silver windadown the hill-side—by the silent night dews,by the softly-falling rains, by the quiet springsthat swell among the peaty uplands—it is bythese that the river is formed ; by these thatit is fed and sustained in its mighty flow, inthe force and depth of the current that bearsgreat ships on its bosom, down, down to theocean. Not a drop is lost, nothing is value-less ; all goes to make up an inestimablyprecious whole. And now, in conclusion, dear friends youngand old, if but one heart is moved by theperusal of these pages to more earnest work 166 Mary Jones. for the Master, to self-denial and loving ser-vice in the spread of His truth ; to a moreeager study of Gods Word, and a greaterzeal in circulating and making it knownamong others—then indeed this little storyof the poor Welsh girl and her Bible will nothave been written in Printed in Great Britain byMessrs Billing aud .Sons, Guildford.
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