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As the girl becaed fro sorrow, Mrs Arnot led her, as it were, to the very feet of Jesus of Nazareth, and left her there with these words: "He came to seek and save just such as you are--the lost He is reaching down his rescuing hand of love to you, and when you grasp it in si trust you are saved"

Before the week closed, the poor creature forever turned her face away from the world in which she had so deeply sinned and suffered: but before she departed on the long journey, he who alone can grant to the huiven; go in peace"

As Mrs Arnot held her dying head she whispered, "Tell hiave e had a vital influence over Haldane's subsequent life Indeed these words of the poor dying ere potent enough to shape all his future career He was taught by thenetic power of sympathy, and that he who in the depths of his heart feels for his fellow-creatures, can help them He had once hoped that he would dazzlesince concluded that hethe lowly paths of life Until his visit to the prison and its results the thought had scarcely occurred to him that he could help others He had felt that he had been too sorely wounded himself ever to be an to learn that his very sin and suffering enabled him to approach nearer to those ere, as he was once, on the brink of despair or in the apathy of utter discouragement, and to aid them more effectively because of his kindred experience

The truth that he, in the hue in the noble work for which he revered Mrs Arnot, caht into his shadowed life, and his visits to the prison were looked forward to with increasing zest

Fro the chapter merely he came to venture on a few comments Then questions were asked, and he tried to answer some, and frankly said he could not answer others But these questions sti To his own agreeable surprise, as well as that of his prison class, he occasionally was able to bring, on the following Sabbath, a very satisfactory answer to soested the truth that all questions could be answered if only tiht to bear upon them