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