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poor working girl about twenty years of age, Mrs. Sheldon ; an orphan with a younger sister and two younger brothers to support, and noth- ing but her two busy hands to depend upon. She is ft sewing-girl and a skilful workwoman, so that by incessant labor over her machine, day af- ter day, she is able to keep her little family to- gether, and, more than all, to send them to school. She realizes the disadvantages of her own ig^no- ranee, and she feels a noble ambition to educate those orphan children. Her faith is great ; it is like the faith of the primitive Christians who lived so near the times of the Lord Jesus, that, in their prayers, they asked for what they needed with childish confidence. It was her great faith which first drew me towards her ; she was a reg- ular attendant at the chapel service, and in the course of my visits, I went to see her in the little home she has made in the third story of a lodg- ing house at South End. It was Saturday, and I saw the three children, already showing eviden- ces of improved education in their words and