The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher

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om the words and actions of the sinful people with whom he was forced to associate had opened his understanding sufficien

ely and sad. Many times in the silent hours of the night as he repeated the words softly to himself and realized the waves of strength and courage sweeping over him, he was made to wonder, but he never thought o

any sins until some of the crimes traced to his door were of the blackest hue. He had already been tried for various crimes, but the latest trial was for his having promised to marry a young girl, when he had already a living wife and child in another part of the city. "Why," do you ask? "could this difference be?" Take a look into the heart and life of each, and you w

dvise him of his danger and to see to it that he obeyed them while he was young; for it is very plainly stated in the Bible that the child should be trai

, sums of money, and other things too numerous to mention. He had also been guilty of forging

shortcomings, went occasionally to see her. In answer to those who questioned how he could respect or visit his mother after all that she had caused him to suffer, he would say: "She is still my mother, just as though she had always been good to me, and I s

disgrace. He can scarcely get out of one trouble until he is in another, and he even sets the other children up to do things that are bad. Now, how is it that you, whom I never gave credit for knowing anything, have ne

y for him to slip in behind the counters at the stores to help himself, for you always took his part and shielded him; and you never taught him that he must be true to his wife. You told me I must never speak to you of these things, and I did not before, for I knew that it

our pocket could make him a thief or amount to this,

talk will bear a great many blossoms, and every blossom will have an abundant crop of seeds. The little thistle-seed is very small and perfectly harmless if watched and destroyed before

of the wrongs that she had done the growing boys when they were under her care had gone; but had she known it, the

idable. The stories of ghosts and superstitious sayings had opened up avenues for thought, and he reasoned that if everything must die, and if there is a

it to his satisfaction. Taking note of his mother's friendly attitude toward him, he ventured to ask if she could give him an

ad decided that since the good place and the bad had been made for a purpose and since the good and the bad must inhabit th

le-but no! Had he listened, he could not have understood

ey may have right to the tree of life, and may ente