And of her it might be said, “O woman, great was thy faith; it was done unto thee even as thou wouldest.”
These things happened a few months ago. How do the characters in this little story fare now?
Truly, with pleasure can it be said, that there is not a dark thing to relate about any of them.
Jenks, partly through Miss Mary’s aid, and partly through his mother’s savings, is apprenticed to a carpenter, and his strict honesty, his earnestness of purpose, joined to his bright and funny ways, have already made him a favourite with his master. Humanly speaking, few are likely to do better in their calling and station than he, and his dream is some day wholly to support his beloved little mother.
Pick is still at the Reformatory School, but he promises to do well, and Miss Mary promises never to cease to look after him.
Even little Janey, through this brave woman’s influence, has been rescued, and picked out of the mire of sin and ignorance, and has learned something more of the true meaning of the Glory Song.
As for Miss Mary herself, she is still a sister—a true sister of the poor, going wherever sins need reproving, and misery comforting. Not joining any particular denomination, wearing no special badge, she yet goes about, as her Master left her an example, doing good—and in the last day, doubtless, many shall rise up and call her blessed.
And the widow—when her boy came home, when her boy became a Christian, she seemed to have no other earthly good thing to ask for. She is very happy, very bright, and very dear to all who know her.
Thus all are doing well.
But surely—the one in his unbroken sleep, the other in the sunshine of her Father’s House—there are none we can leave so contentedly, so certain that no future evil can befall them, as the two, whom the child always spoke of as