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'What was the use when the poor dear was only seven year old? What

call was there for him to come to a blessed innocent like that? I

did tell him to look in when my husband was took, for I know as

before ere al

Sanders He never would own up to yman, and, if he did, it would ease his mind and make

it a bit better for him afterwards; but, Lord! it warn't no use, for

he went off and we didn't so much as hear her name, not even when he

was a-wandering I says toyou?"'

Mrs Caffyn was a Christian, but she was a disciple of St James rather

than of St Paul She believed, of course, the doctrines of the

Catechism, in the sense that she denied none, and would have assented

to all if she had been questioned thereon; but her belief that

'faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone,' was so

very vivid and very practical

Her estimate, too, of the relative values of the virtues and of the

relative sinfulness of sins was original, and the rector therefore