The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1867-02-22

her there. TO come back TO India. and
teach YOU, and other children. who are
taught TO pray TO idol gods, who can do no
one any good, about The true Saviour.
And now this letter is from that dear
child away in America; and what do you
think she tOld me, that has made my
heart 80 full of JOY 1t Is that she has
giren her heart 10 the Savior and loves
him-loves him more than she loves her
darling brother YES, more than she loves
her father and mother whom she never
again expects to see in this world. L
could moi live away from them if | did
moi love YOU. Oh. Gunga, if YOU would
love this same Savior, pray &c him, ask
him very earnestly, with all your heart,
and he can give YOU, too, new heart
and YOU will make me cry again for ioy.
| will call Won then. ny child, YOU shall
have her lame, and | will rejoice that
could leave her 10 bring yen 10 Christ
Suddenly, without a word, Gunga
larted from the room. For days she
scarcely appeared again, and when she Was
about her usual task, caring for Naca,
there MIS- 4 strange look upon her iace-a
something which seemed almost Ike des-
pair.
Rut one morning she came into the
teachers room with that look all gone
There was a sweet earnest light in her exc,
ss she came up tremblingly. and bursting
INTO = flood of fears, exclaimed,
Il think / love I-izzie's Saviour
Had an arrow pierced the lady's heart
she would moi have itlt keener thrill,
but ii w;s a thrill of JOY, Gunga, The
all-bad, Was ii possible she had been
sitting at the Saviour'> feet, and had now
come-a repetition Of the old miracle
clothed, and in her right mind
.i'ity nv unboliet,,' was all she could
excllim, as with streaming eyes she en-
braced the wondering child
1t was happy evening in the Bamboo
cottage. Words cannot portray the sa-
credneS> OF that JOY. Songs of new praise
aScended from lis reed-ihaichcJl roof and
reached the ears OF linn who walked it.
And Gmga WAS changed indeed 9th
erS in their home school. had given eyi-
dence from time TO time OF a change of
heart-but in none WAS this 50 apparent
;ls in Gumga's case. The crimson had be-
come Ike snow
The whole energy of her nature was
ROW bent in an opposite direction TO her
past life. She lived Tor years in the mis-
>ionary's family, beautiful example OF
the Spirit ot Christ. She Wa> margiC1 hv
the missionary, TO a christian conleI: and
their home w;iS christian home The
family altar WAS set up. and cherished
with a sacrelnass which might put TO
blush many families who had never known
IN all-bad among their inmate,
The lady still lives. and her husband
also. Worn with the labor of more than
Il score ot years in India they have been
permitted 10 Return 10 their native land.
AMI embrace the children. once given mp.
As wa> Isaac wholly 10 the Lord The
Lord has provided ior ts,aa '-anoiher sac
riiice"
And ROW. a they look back over the
labor ami the CAIN OF their life OF toll. and
!aith, AMI sclt-,lcnial-upon The success of
MANY cfioIts-lhc unlocking for thousands
ot h,s.then. ihe priceless riches of the New
TeS;amcnt-ihe conversion of many and
the education of many more, Perhaps no
event ci those twenty wears brings a more
peculiar thrill oi pleasure in the recollec-
lion, than tlie wonderful change of Gunga,
the ,rsill-had;'' and there may come 10
.hem no ~weeter hope. when their labors
are all finished. than that OF meeting
among the welcoming ran>omed ones.
Gung;l, tie ',all-gool-~ And then, as
now, viii they give ali the praise ITO HIM
WHO alone Is able 10 prevent Us from fall
inc, and present us taulilcss before his
presence, with exceeding ioy-"