Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. LAST WORDS. KNOW that my story may be called unfinished. It is so because it is true. In a busy and thronged Lon don district, and in a busy and thronged house, a little maid-of-all-work is still trying to keep the chime going in her heart--is still trying to show forth praise not only with her lips, but in her life. And would not this busy and thronged world, this great lodging-house in which for a time we have our habitation, be to many who read these pages a happier and a better place could they have constantly in their minds the greatness of the "Unspeakable Gift," the belief in a real present, living, loving Saviour; could they, too, keep the chimes of joy and thanksgiving always ringing? Busy workers, in whatever station of life you may be placed, who have found time to read these words, shall not they sound in your hearts? There is room in them for the clang and uproar of the world's noise and tumult: is there not room for the sweet cadence of peace and thanksgiving which follows the admission of Jesus, and which rings in the true Christmas-tide of the soul? It may be that you are at the head of a family, and have calls and claims and interruptions on every side, and " many coming and going," so that sometimes you seem to have "no leisure to tarry so much as to eat." Or it may be that you are a servant, always busy, often tired, sometimes overtasked; or possibly you are a boy or girl at school, and have your time portioned out for you, and find that every moment is fully occupied. Still, let the chime ring in your hearts. Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to come to you Himself. Make time for Him, for whatever else you may find no leisure. "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?..".
