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REDEMPTION.

84 the priest will not come. Father is poor and been sick a long time, and we have no money left, and the priest will not come unless we pay him." So the minister went, and she led him to one of those poor miserable kind of cabins that the Roman Catholic Irish live in. There he found the sick man. The little girl went up to him and said, “Fa- ther, I have brought a priest. Come, sir, and save my father's soul." "I cannot save your father's soul," he said, "but there is one who can." "Then tell me quick where he lives, and I will go fifty miles to fetch him." He then spoke to REDEMPTION. Digitized by Google