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Show TAKEN FROM THE STREET. Many a boy is ruined by bad company, who might have been saved by attention and hearty sympathy kind and hearty sympathy. A kind look at the right moment may shape an entire life. Nearly a century ago a warm-hearted Irish minister stopped in a village street to watch a group of boys play marbles. One of them, dirty and ragged, amused him by his ready wit. The minister talked with the boy and invited him to his house. In spite of dirt and rags, he felt drawn to him by admiration of his brightness. The boy had not been to school, and the minister agreed to give him private lessons. Progress was so rapid that he was soon sent to a neighboring school and held his own with the best scholars. Many years afterward, the boy, grown to manhood, and recognized as a brilliant lawyer and leader in parliament, found one day an old gentleman in his room. He recognized the friend of his boyhood, and rushing to his arms, said: "This room is yours; you gave me all these things; you made a man of me." The minister listened with delight to the brilliant conversation of his prot'g', but his tears flowed freely in the evening as he sat entranced by the eloquence of Carran in the House of Commons. He felt that boys were worth saving. <br><br> Selected. |