A noble army; a short study book for juniors . epressible,yearning to be a missionary. Nevertheless, continued the letter, will younot come to Manchester and let me place you in asituation near by, that I may examine you as to yourfitness for missionary work? With his future prospects a blank before him,Robert set out for Manchester to trust his fortunesin the hands of the man to whom he had been sosingularly guided. After a days fruitless search fora vacant position, they were near discouragementwhen Mr. Roby thought of a friend of his who had alarge nursery garden a few miles outside the cit
A noble army; a short study book for juniors . epressible,yearning to be a missionary. Nevertheless, continued the letter, will younot come to Manchester and let me place you in asituation near by, that I may examine you as to yourfitness for missionary work? With his future prospects a blank before him,Robert set out for Manchester to trust his fortunesin the hands of the man to whom he had been sosingularly guided. After a days fruitless search fora vacant position, they were near discouragementwhen Mr. Roby thought of a friend of his who had alarge nursery garden a few miles outside the , Mr. James Smith of Dukinfield haddriven to town that very day, and, when approached,readily consented to give Robert employment. Now in the comfortable homestead at Dukinfieldthere lived a blue-eyed girl, the idol of her fathershouse and the moving spirit in the neighborhood the hearth those winter nights Robert MofTatglanced furtively at Mary Smith as she sat by herwork table, fingers flying and eyes dancing with a. CROSSING THE RIVERIn Canoe Hollowed out of a Tree The Smoke of a Thousand Villages 13 merry light. Mary had the gift of nimble speech,while Roberts tongue was slow and shy. But in thespringtime when daffodils blossomed in the meadows,he had found words to tell the girl how precious shehad become, more than all the world beside. Theyhad long talks together in the garden and under thehawthorn trees in the lane, when Mary told of herboarding school days at Fairfield in the Moraviansettlement there, and Robert spoke of the stories hismother used to read about the brave Moravian mis-sionaries. Both had caught the spell of those heroiclives and wished themselves missionaries, Mary aswell as Robert, and even before Robert had come in-to her life with such awakening power. Could theynot go together to some foreign land whenever thesociety in London should decide to accept them? On a day in early summer came the exciting mes-sage that Robert Moffa
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