The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-20
The Magic Power Of Love.

Two or three years ago the Superinten
dent of the Little Wanderers Home in
Boston received one morning a reques
from the judge that he would come up t.
the courtroom. He complied directly
and found there group of seven LITTLE
girls, ragged, dirty and forlorn beyon6
even what he was accustomed to see. The
judge pointed to them and said:
MIR. T, can you take any of these p
Certainly; I'll take them ALL" was the
prompt reply.
"All! What in the world can you dc
with them all?"
IN make women of them"
The Judge singled out one, even verse
in appearance than all the rest, and asked
again:
"What can you do with this onew
"I'll make q woman of her." Mr.. -
repeated, firmly and hopefully.
He took them all home. They were
washed and dressed, and provided with q
good supper and beds. The next morning
they went into the school-room with the
rest of the children. Mary was the name
of the little girl whose chance for better
things the judge thought was small.
During the afternoon the teacher said to
Mr.. T in reference to her:
II never saw child like that. have
tried for an hour to get single smile
and failed"
Mr.. T. said afterward himself tha
her face was the saddest he had ever seen
sorrowful beyond expression; yet she
was very little girl-only seven or eigh'
After school he called ne into his office
and said, pleasantly: MARY, I've lost nv
little pet. l used to have a little girl here
that would wait on me, and sit on my
knee, and loved her very much. A kind
lady and gentleman adopted her, and she
went to live with them. l miss her, and !
should like you to take her place, and be
my little pet; will your!
A CLEAN of light fitted over the poor
child's face as she began to understand
him. He gave her ten cents, and told her
that she might go to store near by and
buy some candy. While she was gone he
took two or three newspapers, tore them
in pieces, and scattered them about the
room. When she returned, in a few min.
utes, he said to her: MARY, will you
clean up my Office for me? pick up them
papers, and make it look real NICE"
She went to work with will. A little
more of this sort of management-treat.
ing her just like kind father would
wrought the desired change. She went
into the school-room after dinner with 81
changed q look and bearing that the
teacher was astonished. The child's face
was absolutely radiant; and half fearful
of some mental wandering, she went up
to her and said: "Mary, what is it?
What makes you look so happy"
"Oh! I've got somebody to love me ~
the child answered earnestly, as if it were
heaven come down on earth.
That was all the secret For want of
love that poor little ones life had been so
cold and desolate that she had lost child
hoods faith and hope. She could not at
first believe in the reality of joy or kind
ness for her. 1t was this certainty that
some one loved her and desired her ahec-
ton that lighted the child's soul and glo'
rified her face! .
Mary has since been adopted by wealthy
people, and lives in a beautiful home IN
New England; but more than all its COM
forts and beauty, running like golden
thread through it all, she finds the love OF
her father and mother.
Shall we who have many to love, and to
love us, refuse to be comforted, to see any
value and use in life, any work for our
hands to do, because one of our treasures
may be removed from our sight-from our
home and care to better?
And, oh! shall we let any of these little
ones go hungering for atfection-go up
even unto Gods land, before they find
somebody to love them:"