Now, when we want a
lawyer's counsel, our young friend is glad to give it us, and already
has done us good service. Sweet thank-offerings!
"My past birthday in June was spent in taking two little fellows to
their homes. After travelling nearly one hundred miles, as we neared
our destination very tired, we wondered to ourselves whether it would
be in a log hut, farmhouse, or mansion we should find a welcome with
our little charges. It proved to be the last.
"The Lord had put it into the heart of a young married lady to rear
an orphan boy, and thus fulfil a long-cherished idea. She had also
induced another Christian lady to do the same. It was a sweet reward
to His wearied servant, to know that two orphans would be so well
cared for."
CHAPTER VII
1877-1879.
"They helped every one his neighbour"--Miss Child, a fellow-labourer
--The work in Ratcliff Highway--Strangers' Rest for Sailors--"Welcome
Home"--"Bridge of Hope"--Miss Macpherson's twenty-first voyage to
Canada--Explosion on board the "Sardinian"--Child life in the Galt
Home--The Galt Home now devoted to children from London, Knowlton to
those from Liverpool, and Marchmont to Scottish Emigrants.
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