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BOSTON:

AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION.

1886.

Copyright, 1886, By American Unitarian Association.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

TO

POST-OFFICE MISSION WORKERS,

WEST AND EAST,

AND TO EARNEST PEOPLE

EVERYWHERE.

It was a very contemptible barley-loaf she had to offer, compared with your fine, white, wheaten cake of youth and riches and strength and learning; but remember she offered her best freely, willingly, faithfully; and when once a thing is offered, it is no longer the little barley-loaf in the lad's hand, but the miraculous satisfying Bread of Heaven in the hand of the Lord of the Harvest, more than sufficient for the hungry multitude."

"'And so there is an end of poor Miss Toosey and her Mission!'... Wait a bit! There is no waste in nature, science teaches us; neither is there any in grace, says faith. We cannot always see the results, but they are there as surely in grace as in nature."

Miss Toosey's Mission.