must come in the life of
a girl who said those words and meant them, for they had seen the faults
in her and they were many. She was undaunted by all they said she must
do, and answered in her uncouth fashion, "I'd die doin' them fur Him."

They wanted her to leave the mill but she said no, one of the girls was
leaving and she was to have her place with lighter work. She wanted to
go back and tell the girls some things, she said.

Not three years have passed but Mary D---- is a new girl. She is
attractive; one can scarcely believe unless he has seen it. She is
clean; she is happy. Her friends secured a position for her father
out-of-doors where he had loved to work as a boy. Mary took him to the
Mission and there he promised to begin the fight against his enemy. The
men in the Mission helped. Regular pay made a decent home possible. They
have begun to live.

Overcome by the effects of ignorance and sin, failures as citizens, as
individuals, as human souls, they met a _Person_ and life was
transformed. If it were possible to replace in every factory for Mary
D---- who assented to the facts but passed them by as having nothing to
do with her, Mary D---- who met a Person and loved Him what a world of
new moral forces we could create!

He was revealed to Mary D---- not in the abstract which could not
impress her but in the concrete which she understood. O if only we
_could_ grasp the significance of that!

Ruth M---- was a college junior with ancestry and wealth, brilliant,
sarcastic, selfish. She knew all the facts and accepted them. She was a
member of a church with which she had united at fourteen as had her
mother and grandmother before her. She did not think much about the
facts, they had not greatly impressed her. If questioned, she promptly
stated that she believed this and that, she thought such and such things
were probable though no one could prove them, and dismissed the subject
to talk of her own plans and interests.

Then her great sorrow came. In a moment she lost everything dear to her.
They called it an accident. She held God accountable and in bitterness
and anger turned her back upon all the facts. The months passed and her
health breaking she was obliged to leave college. At the beautiful
health resort to which she went she met a girl she had known well when a
little child. They renewed the friendship. Then the girl's sorrow came.
It was not death, it was far worse, scandal and disgrace in her famil