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Jessie Finding Jesus
A little girl in a wretched tenement in New York stood by her mother’s death-bed, and heard her last words: “Jessie, find Jesus.” When...


Translation of Bishop Haven
On Saturday morning, January 3, 1880, in Malden, Massachusetts, Bishop Gilbert Haven’s physician said that his last day had come, and...


“Kiss Me, Mamma.”
The child was so sensitive, so like that little shrinking plant that curls at the breath, and shuts its heart from the light. The only...


The Young Martyr
On the afternoon of August 9, 1853, a little Norwegian boy, named Kund Iverson, who lived in the city of Chicago, Ill., was going to the...


John Byers' Prevailing Prayer
Maggie, an Irish girl of about twenty years, burned herself by lighting the morning fire with kerosene. Dr. Benjamin, the leader of the...


Awful Providences
The following are selected from a list of incidents recorded by Thomas Graham, the noted revivalist preacher, of the Erie Conference of...


Does this Railroad Lead to Heaven?
In traveling we often meet with persons of different nationalities and languages; we also meet with incidents of various character, some...


Dying Children and Youth
The grasp of the mind of childhood upon the great truths of religion is frequently felt most perceptibly when the little sufferers are...


Charlie Coulson, The Christian Drummer Boy
Two or three times in my life God in His mercy touched my heart, and twice before my conversion I was under deep conviction. During the...


I’ll Never Steal Again - If Father Kills Me For It
A friend of mine, seeking for objects of charity, got into the room of a tenement house. It was vacant. He saw a ladder pushed through...


And Dying is but Going Home
Wending her way every Sabbath to a school in the west end of London, might have been seen a young girl, named Mary Jane Howes. Attached...


A Man Who Lacked Moral Courage
A few years ago I went to close a meeting, and said: “Are there any here who would like to have me remember them in prayer? I would like...


Death of a Soul-Sleeper
Mrs. Mattie Campbell relates the happy death of her sister, a soul-sleeper, which occurred last May. It seems that her views were changed...
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