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Just then his mother entered, with her heart quite full of joy

And gratitude to God above, who had kept her darling boy;

She had been alone to thank him, and offer up a prayer

That God who had preserved her son, would keep him in his care.

“Dear mother, will you pray,” said he, “and read in God’s own Word

That story of the Prodigal, which I have often heard;

For I have wandered far away, but now desire to come

And love and serve that Being who hath safely brought me home?”

Her prayer was heard; and Alfred Bell is now a Christian man,

Serving his God with faithfulness, and doing all he can

That those who go to distant lands, to search for mines of gold,

May find within God’s holy Word a mine of wealth untold.

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Oh, Mother! said little Ruth Greenwood one day,

Please come to the window this moment, I pray,

For two little children are here, by the door,

They are weary and cold, and they look very poor.

The Pulsifer children, I see, said her mother,

’Tis dear little Ella, and Harry, her brother