Boys -- Juvenile fiction; London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Siblings -- Juvenile fiction
the table, got a duster, and, tenderly removing its dust, opened it. It
was a large book--a book with a great, great deal of writing, and Faith
wondered how soon she could find this particular story that she longed
for. She could read very slowly, and very badly. She might be a long
time seeing the place where Jesus blessed the babies; but here
unlooked-for help was at hand. Faith's dead mother, too, had loved this
special story. The place opened at the very page, and, to help Faith
still further, the words were heavily marked with a pencil.
Yes, it was all there; all that the ragged girl had told her yesterday.
Faith had a vivid imagination, and she saw the whole picture--she saw
the waiting mothers and the lovely baby children. She saw the angry
disciples trying to send them away, and the face of the dear Saviour of
the whole world as, taking one after the other of these lambs in His
arms, He said, "Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid
them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
Faith read the story over and over until she really knew it all by
heart. Yes, it was all there, but one difficulty was not over. She had
read with her own eyes the story, but she saw nothing in the sacred
words to help her special need--nothing about where Jesus lived now,
nothing of how she, Faith, could go to Him, and ask Him to help her to
find her little brother. She had less doubt than ever in her own mind
of His perfect willingness to help her--of His perfect power to find Roy
again. But how could she find Him? In what part of vast London did
Jesus live now?
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