.tS- ■^- \^!^ ^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ,.«*> {■^ <5> V- 1.0 no lit I.I 125 iu 14.0 1^8 |Z5 ■ 2.2 1 2.0 1.8 1.6 150mm '^W / >»PPLIED ^ J IIVMGE . Inc ^ 1653 East Main street s*^ I .V Chester, NY 14609 USA ^ Phone: 716/482-0300 = Fax: 716/288-5989 e 1993, Applied Image, Inc., All Rights Reserved |\ « ' ■- To be had at Grafton and Drysdale's, Price 10 cents. Montreal, 1894. GETH8EMANE. REMINISCENCES CONNECTED WITH THE GENERAL HOSPITAL. About twenty years ago the General Hospital was a very different institution to what it is to-day in many ways— the wards were smaller, the nurses totally different, in age, dress and training, more of the Sarah Gamp style, and there was no regular visitation to cheer and brighten the lives of the patients. Now the different sects have their ** Chaplains" appointed and paid to visit, while a number of free lances interest themselves about those who have no one to specially care for them as regards either the body or the soul. The special circumstance that brought about this change in visitation happened in this wise — A young Scotchman lay dying. He was engaged to be married to an Irish girl, a devout R.C., who was devotedly attached to the dying lad, and believing as she did that there was no salvation outside of the Roman Catholic Church, she entreated him to change from his Protestantism and become a Roman Catholic. To please the girl he consented to do so, and^a priest was brought, the screeas were put round the bed, and he was first baptized and then received 2 extreme unction, dying shortly afterwards and buried Rn/ on. 5r™^^''^ ""'^^ ^^^ "'^^^ °^ the church. f«i r • i ^"'l"'"^ P'P^"' g^t ^^o^d of the story and they raised such a hullabaloo and made capital out of the case that the whole community was moved at wi '^''?^^"^ disgrace" of a Presbyterian from Scotland being unattended in his dying hours by a minister of that sect and thus left to the designing priest of Rome— whereas the priest of Rome had nothmg to do with it, one of them was simply called m to attend a dying young man for whom none of his own denomination seemed to care, but the Suoerin tendent of the Hospital for the ^ime beS was severely blamed for allowing it, and feeling ran very high. The outcome of it all was that a score at least of visitors, male and female, volunteered to go reeu- larly to visit the sick and watch that such a case 'r^^^/j^l .r^"/- '^^^"- ^ ^"' °"^ ^f them, recom. mended to the directors as a suitable person by two clergymen of the city. A month or so elapsed, and I r^AT ''/^^"''u''*f ""^ ^t. George's, now the Bishop of Montreal, who had recommended me, telling him that It was no use my going, there were such a num- ber who went, and that without system or arrangement .'fT,f^^^'"'"^-~His pleasant smile broke out as he said. Wait for a month or two, you may see a chanee " h^^^' T '?' ^^ *^^ '"^ ^^ ^'^ '"^^ths the novluy naa diea out. and nnlir a -.r^r'' 'Vw r :- - 4 J r many years I remain alone of those who then volun- teered. But after a time the churches, as such, took up the matter. The Episcopal appointed a "chaplain," the Presbyterian a city missionary, now also called a "chaplain," while the Methodist and other sects mcluding the Jews, the P. B., and the S. A. visit more or less regularly, while the Y. M. C. A. holds a service for the convalescent patients at 9.30 to 10.30 a.m., and the Church of England at 4 p.m. every Sabbath, so that it cannot be said that any one is overlooked. Of course, it goes without saying that the R.C. patients are most carefully looked after by a regularly appointed priest, as well as kindly, pleasant faced nuns. During so long a period as twenty years, of course there have been a great many interesting cases come under my immediate notice, which will be read with sympathetic interest by those who love ne General Hospital, and as what I shall relate from memory (for I have kept no record of the work) breaks no confi- dence, nor disturbs the sanctity of either family or individual life from what I state, no harm can follow. I met a young Scotchman from the Isle of Sky. He had come from California, where he had worked as an engineer and lost his right hand from an accident. His name was Donald McKenzie. He was both an intelligent and godly young fellow, a Baptist by deno- mination. The medical men could not find out what was the matter with him, his lungs were all right, yet he wasted away to a mere skeleton. I took him the biographies of great Scotchmen to read, like Dr. •Chalmers, William Arnot, or Murray McCheyne. He ♦hanked me but said, **I only \^ant my Bible and Spurgeon's Sermons, which are the next best thing to •the Bible — these satisfy my longings as nothing else "Can do." One day when I called he was so weak his voice was gone. I said, '* Donald, I want to write to your father when you are gone, give me his address, for I am leaving town for a few days and you may be gone before I return.** He smiled and motioned he wanted my pencil to write, which I gave him. He wrote, *' There is one who knows," and so, thinking some one else had visited him to whom he had given the address, I bade him a tender farewell, and another occupied his bed on my return, he was gone. I asked the nurse who had been visiting him. ** No one but yourself," she said. So I drew a bow at a venture, and wrote to the Free Church Minister of the Isle of Sky, not knowing there were quite a number of parishes on the island ; but my letter hit the mark, for immediately a letter was received from his father — a niost interesting letter, telling mt the family history. The young man's name was Donald McKimmon, McKenzie was his mother's name. When he was 13 years of age his father had married again (his mother having died when Donald was a baby) and the lad was so mad about it he took his mother's name and went off to Glasgow and learned to be an engineer on the Clyde. When 19 years of age he was converted to God in a Baptist meeting, and at once wrote to his father asking his forgiveness for the rude way he had spoken to him and his step-mother, that he was leav-- ing his native land to seek his fortune abroad. The father had heard that he had lost his right hand, but all the circumstances taken together assured him he was his son, and how eager they all were to learn the particulars of his illness and death. But as Henry Kirke-White wrote, " He sank as sinks the stranger in the busy streets of crowded London — a short com- motion caused, a few enquiries made, the crowd pass on and all, forgotten," so it was with Donald McKenzie. The next case I will describe has an absurd and laughable side to it, revealing what poor creatures we are at the best, when reason even to a slight degree is dethroned, and shows the difficulty of ministering to a mind diseased. About eight years ago a young man connected with an evening paper came to the Hospital and gradually got worse. The doctors kindly told him his case was hopeless and if he wanted to die in his own bed he had better leave while strength remained. He went to his home in the town- ships and shortly afterwards I received a letter from his mother, telling me of his death, and his parting 6 message to me, to which of course I replied. She sent me his photo and seemed most grateful for the blessed hope of eternal life her son had received while in the Hospital, and for a year or more her letters were most admirable, intelligent and such as an educated person would write. Then to my astonish- ment she began to address me as her "dear husband" and to sign herself as my "affectionate wife ! " It was evident that the poor woman's mind was off its balance. Every effort has been made to induce her to stop writing her long weekly registered letter, cost- mg 8c. Still they come, and for four or five years they have been re-stamped, re-addressed and sent back to her, so that the poor creature knows they are not read, yet still they come, always weekly and some- times twice a week. Dr. Burgess was shown one of the letters, but he advised to let her write on, as this was the only phase of the disease, otherwise she was a good mother, housewife, and active Christian woman, but the idiosyncracy in its development was and is most peculiar. The next little sketch is a very blessed one first to last. I have great pleasure in describing it. There came to the Hospital one day a tall, handsome young fellow, 19 years of age. He had been out in his fathers woods in the Eastern Townships felling trees, when a billet struck him in the eyes. He came to town and Dr. Buller at once removed one eve. the other from inflammation was almost sightless. He went hack home a blind young man. Some months afterwards, meeting the doctor, he asked how Levi was getting on, could he see at all ? *' Yes," I replied. *' He sees a window when entering a room, but no individual article of furniture." " Tell him to come up to town again. I was successful with a similar case lately. I will try again." So the dear fellow was brought back to town, but the General Hospital bemg full, he had to go to Strong's. Alas ! it was no use— the sight was irrevocably gone. But a truly blessed event took place that shines out in my memory with singular brightness. In Strong's Hospital at that time were two other patients, one a lady very deaf and almost blind, but a devoted Christian, the other also a believer, suffering from a most peculiar disease. The ligaments that sustain the neck were powerless on one side, so that his head always turned with the face looking over the left shoulder, a wooden frame kept it in its place. Now, can you picture these three patients ? The lady, I think it was, suggested as they had all three been brought to the Lord, it would be delightful before parting if we had the Lord's Supper. I spoke of it to beloved Dean Baldwin, now Bishop of Huron, and he was most happy to come. But it was found that Levi had never been baptized. Shall I ever forget the rapt look on that dear lad's nnfnmAH fon*> > Th-* }'C3 8 closed for ever, yet the spiritual sight revealed for evermore. Then the service of the supper — I must not try to describe it, words would fail me, for the Dean had to go quite close to the deaf and nearly blind lady and shout so she could hear his words, the gentleman, stuck up, as it were, in his frame, made it altogether most peculiar. Again and again I have visited dear Levi at his home, though blind he is not inactive, raising poultry and bees, and otherwise, through the greater development of his other senses, a useful man. ' I must now give a sketch of a wholly different character, yet one full of sad instruction to the soul winner not to despair of even what seems the most hopeless case, but still to hear the Lord saying "Only believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." The thief on the cross shows us none need despair if they cry to Jesus, but it is the only such instance given in Scripture, so that none may presume. I met in a small, miserable cell in the jail, a young man of 28, a pure wreck, wasted with dissipation and dying of consumption— not only so as regards health, but his conscience had awoke and " the terrors of hell had got hold of him," his tears flowed as I spoke to him, but he said with sobs he was past redemption, never had lived one so guilty as he. Application was made to the judge and permission given to remove him to the General Hospital. When settled in his com- 9 fortable bed and tenderly cared for, he told me his blighted h'story. He belonged to Plattsburg, N.Y. His father had been killed in the American war, leav- ing a sister and himself with his widowed mother. They attended the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Hall. He was a member of his Bible Class and the family were on the most intimate terms at the Manse. When 1 8 years of age he broke away from home and its restraint, and for ten vears had lived the life of a vagabond, wandering to almost every state in the Union, but always downward. In Montreal he was living in concubinage with a fallen woman, who one night got hold of a stranger and robbed him of $500, which she brought to their wretched room. He gave it for safe keeping to the saloon keeper where they got their whiskey. The stranger reported his loss to the police, the woman was found, the money restored, and he got 18 months in jail, the woman 12. Although ten years had elapsed since he ran away from his mother and home, I concluded to try and verify his story by writing to the Rev. Mr. Hall and make enquiry as to its truth. Immediately the answer came back. Yes, it was quite true, every word of it. His sister married and left with her husband for a distant territory of the U.S. His mother accompanied her, but he had telegraphed to her that her lost son was found. How^ eagerly the poor dying fellow looked forliis mother's letter, but an event meantime occurred /■ 10 which drove it into the background for the tlm^ There was living that winter for his health atr.' r:::f''" ^Z'"^ ^ '■^^"'^^ omcer of H M irmv Captain Robertson. He used to attenH fh» ^' defunct noon day prayer m'eeti^g TtU, Y M cT and one day I asked him if he would eo t„ th7 Wn. htrorhLtn'ofTdP°T'^' ^ '-- - s ^^she°'^s^r:rVed:tVe\^^eT^^^ take and receive the gift of eternal Hf?i^- , act of faith on Je.us tie Cruc fi 3 Shew'as'aHd' grey.ha.red woman, unable to travel buTdav fnA n.ght she prayed for her dear boy as she had^nn^ o me'dnTLrin' th' It' '"' T 'he anllctatio"n glory i took thl u\f^ """""S °^ *^ redeemed in aside his mother's letter, he said, "Oh Mr -_ thaf was a boss gentleman you sent to' see me on Wednes a,uu rtbKea iKc lO read a verse, which 11 I did* T wnHH !•!:' ^°^ '^ ''"^ i' "gain, he said, and did Wh^H 'I' yo" to read it a third time, and I did. What does it say ? he asked. * The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin.' What is the flash of lightning I saw that the word took in me You have again and again repeated the verse, but mv spiritual eyes were blind, I did not see the app7^ cation of It to me. 1 believed the words and parTn and peace have followed. Oh, if it were no? for dis- hon'f"f^ other patients I feel as if I would like to shout, Glory to God, glory to God, glory to God for saving a sinner like me." He li^ed a^ month afe that, but his joy, and hope, and peace never for a moment was obscured. 1 wrote to Mr. Hall and he and his wife came up to Montreal to see for them- selves. It was most touching to witness the meeting death and sm were swallowed up in victory " This is the victory that overcometh, even your faith " I John, V 4. '' Dear Willie." said Mrs. Hall "is here anything I could send you } - His wasted face lit up and he said, - I remember when I used to take tea at the Manse how nice the apple pies were I would like to taste one again." In a few days a box with pie, cake and other delicacies came bv exnreq.; ^l\?\\'f ^^"^ ^'^ ^^^^- '' ^^^cameTruei'D^esTre snail tail, tor man croeth tr» hie i/^r,{r \.r.^^ »» tt . ^ 1 1 i ' - o — i- -" --..^ *^'"o iiv/mc. lie lust '^L^:l^^ ^""^ ''''' "^^•^-"•- -^>'. 'hey x' 12 thj [Imera'nn' Z"T .^' ^'' ^"^ ^^^^ '^ ^^^^"ge for ine rtineral m the best manner, and brin^ the hnH„ llr num?er'r?». "'''^'' ' '«^- At the' sfa'tion^'r large number of the congregation were awpmhl^H w.th floral offerings, which they laid on the coffinTth^n all march' d to the church. Four voices two m/u and two female sang « Rock of Ages " a'n^ « Je"u over of my soul," and Mr. Hall made a most touch^ this prodigal son, formerly a bright member of his Bible C ass, who hid broken his mother's heart vet a the eleventh hour restored and accepted througl the sovereign grace of a sin-pardoning God The tre"::dm:afifrhad'r """^^>^ "^'"^ '^e'^ ireaiea me as if I had been a prmce, or rather I shoulri say, an ambassador, according as it is written ° Ye are the ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us, be ye reconciled to God," ,, Cor v^ ao. It was at the Easter tide when he died, aid fj; many years after, on Easter morning, there came to me by post a truly beautiful book, photo or oth" "fnZ'lf''^ ""' "'^ r^'y' f^°- h'is'cousin Ca Jfe m grateful memory of Cousin Will." One of the photos, lUustrat ve of " He is ri^en " ic k ° •., shown. To God be all thf praTse ' ''"''''"' ! Jge for ; body tion a mbled I, then male Jesus, ouch- ling," »f his •t, yet rough The they liould "Ve 1 did Cor. d for le to Dther arrie, the iwith HE IS UISEN. 14 iJ: OUT AND INTO. ''He has brought us out from thence, that he might bring us IN."— (DeiU. vi. . 23.) Out of Out of Out of Out of Out of Out of I. the distance and darkness so deep the settled and perilous sleep ; the region and shadow of death Its foul and pestilent breath ; ' the bondage and wearying chains companionship ever with stains :-^ Into the light and the glory of God Into the holiest, mad- clean by blood : Into his arms— the embrace and the kiss- Into the scene of ineffable bliss • Into the quiet, the infinite calm, ' Into the place of the song and the psalm. Wonderful love that has wrought all for me ' Wonderfu work that has thus set me free ' ' Wonderfu ground upon which I have come ! Wonderful tenderness, welcoming home » 1 16 ht II. Out of disaster and ruin complete, Ou of the struggle and dreary defeat • Onf nf !^^ '""m^^' ^"^ ^"'•^^^ and shkme. Out of the evils too fearful to name ; ' Out of the dreadmg, the terror, the gloom :- Into the sense of forgiveness and rest. Into mheritance with all the blest, Into a righteous and permanent pkce Into the grandest and fullest release ; Into the comfort without an allov Into a perfect and confident joy. Wonderful holiness, bringing to light » Woni'f ^•'^"' Pitting lll^out of s ght f Wonderful wisdom, devising the way f * Wonderful power that nothing could stay ! III. Out of the horror of being alone, Out of my-se7^':;T;f aUrcXd ?iff l*' 16 Into communion with Father and Son Into the sharing of all that Christ won • Into the ecstacies full to the brim, * Into the having of all things with Him; Into Christ Jesus, there ever to dwell. Into more blessings than words e'er can tell. Wonderful lowliness, draining my cup » Wonderful purpose that ne'er gave me up » Wonderful patience that waited so long ' Wonderful glory, to which I belong ' IV. Out of my poverty, into His wealth ; Out of my sickness, into pure health ; Out of the false, and into the true ; Out of the old man, into the New ; Out of what measures the full depth of " lost ' '* Out of it all, and at infinite cost ! Into what must with that cost correspond, Into that which there is nothing beyond ; Into the union which nothing can part, Into what satisfies His and my heart! Into the deepest of joys ever had— Into the gladness of making God glad ! f I r I tell. f »» 17 Wonderful Person, whose face I'll behold ' Wonderful story, then all to be told ' Wonderful all the dread way that he trod ! Wonderful end, He has brought me to God ! on^ »°,»It'*" r"' ^S° ^y°""8 brakesman on one of despondent when ready to go out. "It was hard wi.rtlv olfiT'-Vf ^-.'^g'-what wo^fd itt wWi, ?^ A-\ A.'iaPPy thought occurred to me Tpoeal toThe R r""^ °"'- ^"^'^^'^ of writing a^ appeal to the R.R. corporation to help him I toot him with me to the head office and sought an btert?ew with one of the great men. We were shown nto h^ jfcWl^L"^fh-f"« ?*.''■■' ^^'"^ towa'r"ds u! hfs cructTii on. ^^ was eaning against the wall on nis cructhes, one leg of his trousers haneine emntv He was a singularly good looking younf Wlow though now pale from confinement. The gfeat man looked at him steadily, then turned his eyes to me cairTlufdh.' ^"'"^ '^^^ •'^ '"« obje'ct of our can. Could he procure him a gate keeper's olace or lZm^n^'''"lZ:T''^ "f «"'"« in'hi/ Sidled conaition ? Does he know telegraphy ? " " No " Without another word he turned to his desk took a slip of paper and wrote something on it " Take thit 18 to the head operator— good morning." On eettin? outside we looked at the paper and grinned '^Teach hLT'!^ '"^" telegraphy with pay sufficient for his Doard, then give him a station when proficient " Years passed, and I lost sight of my one-legged friend t.ll one day when in a Craig Street car a^ gentleman nitfn^n'*^ r/"?*^ *°f ^'' '""' ''"''^^ ™«. smiling ecog" mt.on I d,d not know him, then it dawned upon me Good heavens, Jack" we will call him) I said. "Is hat you ? Why, I thought you had only one leg " If you go to New York, and have money they fix vou up wonderfully," said he. " I went, and they gave "u'wh ch I' 'l:?'--'''' =° P^fectl'y that S Ian' "Wh Jl^*^ "°' *'■' ^^ you are prospering " some^[iL'e-an?r' ^''" ^'""^ °^ " P^^'-'e ^'^'^A some time and have saved money, but I am leaving r^nS" " ° W i,''".^ '^"' •'" <^°»''-tion""wlth"Sf railway ? \Vell no," hesitating and looking sheepish «V« i?'""'^ college!" "What, Theology'"- course „f ^t?H "^'''f *• u"^'' *° '^"'y ™« through the to succeed ■'''' * "^ """""^ """^ ^'""^ ^ ^^P«" Another turn of the kaleidoscope, called the course ^o h^ V'^"''i *?^ '"?' ^''" '"••""i" Patient is brought for kcl o?'^t ; '*"' *7' * ''°""uS Englishman, wfo shi.ntfnt , 5*1", ^-nploy-nent, had engaged in ca^ shunting, and before a week was over had his r.Vhf J i 1 I 19 fJ^IT i^'^"*"!^ l"'° P"'P ^"d amputated from the b^^htZ *' a' ^?""'" "°^P'""- H« ^as one of he brightest and joUiest young fellows I ever met with Nothmg couid depress Ton? (we will call h n^ "Oh he would get along, no fear, the railroad was sure to He'Zl 7° ^-^ '''■"•" ^f "^^''^ I '^^^ not so sure He healed up m a marvellously short time and ore sented h.mself at the headquarters of Thl railway voul could'n^f .'"^'^ '''""^ '".'^ sympathetic, anSs'^ pome, could not be more so, but-ah, there was the rub-no openmg at present-call agdn. This was ht^H ff '^'T '""■''' '"""'in-e, Tom was ea?i„g his head off and runnmg up a bill at his boarding house so he came to me and another happy thought Sccurred rltT K ^ "'°'^ °"' '^' "" °f J«=k just as nar rated above and sent it to the big man of the corapany, telling him if he would examinTthe ?egs of the c. y clergymen he would find that one of tliem hln J f^H^vlf °^ ''"" ^P""g' ^"d one of flesh and blood, and if he was asked the question he would tell you, yes. he was once a brakesman and a telegrlp operator, now a soul saver and a successfu S anH .Tl k''^'^ of time had wrought a marvellous change and all because a kmd Scotchman had given the opDor- wis do^eTor ZTi, ^° ^°" '^' ^^""^ ^°' ^om tha was aone tor Jack, he is m everv w^v pn„ai f^ u:_ :_ v.m and snap, all he wants is the opportu'nit'y." Whet"he; case, I done know, but Tom was requested to rail again this time to see the Boss, who, doubt ess struck with the open, honest English fkce of the dear fellow as well as by the fitness of things sent him^ff I ' distant station to learn teleg aphy whh h^ left hlL'' Tom has no ambition to " wag his hdd in a m.nit " the Scotch say, but he is det^ermined to emXe Sir °°"^'d O' Sir Josejjh and become a first-ratSoader and do credit to the position in life in which i° has pleased God to call hin^. Hallelujah ' - 1 September a young gentleman came to the Ho pital from Nova Scotia to be treated for a d^sefse al. ost invariably fatal, not more than two per cent of the operations were successful. This he was tX His near death was certain any way, and there was he slight peradventure of his case being one of The Zr.'f'^'A Tu'- ."" '°°^ " "^^J' 'o consider of it to solemni.e Z mt."^ iholgt^rd" iHarS^t heed he had given to ought beyond the things of time sTbHitrf.'; W "°^.^'"""y "ith all its unknown p"! sibility lay before him, he was inclined to listen rt. operation was performed successfully, and he lav .or tu't^on'^f"" J'''= ""•^- ^^^"'- ^^' his ^excellent const' ?rCth n*^ ■*" '"TP''' ^^ '"^ ^'^'''y recovered strength. On /ovember ,8th, the dav set anar. h° •s- "J 81 Government as a dav nf fhn«i,„ • • » bedside talt;n« ^r Tu^ thanksgiving, I sat at his move occasion ,o retu/nthanks thl; I ""iTd no! tl's ITlTolT,'" "^ '"" ^•g'"fi-n"ce of his words purthe question rJT"""^*^ "^""^ ""»' ">"de m^ Saviour' The ears filL^' '"'P''^ C""'' ^» his «i,»r„f il- V , ""*<^ "'S «yes and ran dowr eaph side of his face as he humbly said, " Yes I bd Ive I have passed through deatli intn i;f» •• /a "*"'-^? '■ said theyalways dre^adedl dr^^ed tnvirlT?"- I'l stre^.^H-=J;^^^^^^^ l^ir/sTdl'^^^al^eV'rdTad^^^^^^^ him when you. arrive^/^o'u^'migh'f Ce"lfe°d".^: Ske a Irtcl 'T'^'"""'' y^' '''^ •' " ^^'s too true r^ur'A^e%ti^Voltto°ar&^^^^^ marble monument at his head j\l? ^ ^^^ ^ where my brother .s buried. X am married "and s^ttl^J 22 in the far West, and am on my way East to visit my home, but have lain off a day to visit my brother's grave." *' What was your brother's name ? " Walter C ." "By a peculiar coincidence I am Mr. , and after dinner we will together visit the cemetery, for I alone know his place of rest." Her heart was very full as she knelt at the grave and wept, reading as she was able, the comforting words engraved on the marble. — " We would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others who have no hope, for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. — Wherefore comfort one another with these words." — I Thess. iv. : 13, 14, 18. Many, many other instances might be adduced, the difficulty is where to choose, but the above will show how graciously God works, and how beneficent in all its operations is the work carried on in the old and increasingly valued General Hospital of Montreal. Visitor. ,1 \ 23 if ki MINISTRY. The memory of a kindly word. For long gone by ; The fragrance of a fading flower, Sent lovingly ; The gleaming of a sudden smile Or sudden tear ; The warmer pressure of the hand, The tone of cheer ; The hush that means *' I cannot speak. But I have heard ! " The note that only bears a verse From God's own word ; — Such tiny things we scarcely count As ministry ; The givers deeming they have shown Scant sympathy. But when the heart is overwrought, Oh who can tell The power of such little things To make it well ! Fratices Ridley HavergaL