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282 notices o:f books.
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"I ¦* The Domestic Mission. 1. The B Mis...
elements , we cannot _ielp citing * a short passage from . Bagged ? Homesand how to mend them" descriptive of the unfortunate
mistake made , by a lady , a visitor , to the mothers' meeting . A poor : woman had brought her _Tbalby with her—it was afflicted "b y a
distressing complaint—and the lady thoughtlessly asked the mother * what she had deen doing to the child ' s head . —
" ' What did you say , ma ' am ?* answered the mother , hoping , I suppose , that slie angry had and mistaken replied the 4 1 hav question 'n ' t been . It doing was repeated of nothing . with The moth it . I er looked very rich
, , suppose people ' s babies get bad heads , sometimes , as well as poor people ' s ?' " Many in the room sympathised with her , as I plainly saw , when looking up
from amongst my account us , and -book taken ; possession it seemed as of us if all an ; evil for sp eveiy irit had countenance suddenly ali looked ghted more or less angry . Such is the wonderful power of a few words . _TYTtien
shall we ever duiy estimate the omnipotence of words ? I had finished my thing accounts that , so I did I rose not from want my ; and seat , as , and I passed went the across offendi the ng room head to , I fetch stroked some the - ¦•
little " fc Poor pale face bab , y and I how said— sad it is that it _mxist begin to suffer so soon , and give its poor mother so many anxious nihts and weary days . '
g " The baby smiled upon me its accustomed smile ; and , by the time I was back to my seat , I saw the mother ' s head bent over the child ; the quiet tears were dropping _iipon its face , and the evil spirit was gone .
66 . Now , this lady was by _nomeans of an unkind disposition ; she would have * given us money if we had asked for it , and would have exerted herself farmore said— than many , to render us any real service . She might truly
have" 'And yet it was never in my soul But To evil play is so wroug ill a ht part hy ; want of thought ,
As well as want of heart . ' " The most beautiful and touching lessons on this subject are to be found in
the life of our Saviour ! Of course , a word or a message from Him could have conveyed the miraculous healing power ; but in most cases He chose to touch the sihtless eyeto put His finger into the deaf earand to take her that was
, dead g by the hand , . Even the poor leper , whom no one , would scarcely pass on the " what road must —who that had touch ' sat have apart been ' for to years him , ! a Jesus stranger knew to that all human a double symp healing athy- — '
¦ was wounded required by long here , neg not lect only and for the estrangement body covered . Each with must sores , be but heale for the d , before spirit ,, the feelings of a man and a brother could return . A word or a message
could have effected the first , but the touch accomplished both . " Mrs . Bayly has brought her influence to bear upon the men as
" well as the women . She reaches them through their better affections . Tne tidy wifethe orderly childrenthe well-dressed supper
were eloquent tokens , of improvement . The , husband or the father , was unconsciously touchedand the way paved for his reformation
also . The drunkard or the , spendthrift could not withstand these silent monitors ; and when brought Into immediate contact with
Mrs . Bayly his stern nature was influenced by her persuasive eloquence ; and God ' s graceworking through meanschanged and
softened his heart and influenced , his future conduct . , We can do
no more than allude to the author's last work , " Workmen and
282 Notices O:F Books.
282 _notices o : f books .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/66/
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