Will you try to do more than pray for my uncle and Black Thompson?
Will you try to love them.

Will you try for Christ's sake ?' 'Oh, Miss Anne, how can I ?' he asked.
'It may not be all at once,' she answered tenderly; 'but if you ask God to help you, His Holy Spirit will work within you.

Only set this before you as your aim, and resist every other feeling that will creep in; remembering that the Lord Jesus Himself, who died for us, said to us, "Love your enemies." He can feel for you, for "He was tempted in all points as we are."' As she spoke the last words, they heard the master's voice calling loudly for Miss Anne, and Stephen watched her run swiftly up the shrubbery and disappear through the door.

There was a great bolting and locking and barring to be heard within, for it was rumoured that Mr.Wyley kept large sums of money in his house, and no place in the whole country-side was more securely fastened up by day or night.

But Stephen thought of him pacing up and down his room through the sleepless night, praying God to have mercy upon him, yet not willing to give up his sin; and as he turned away to the poor little cabin on the cinder-hill, there was more pity than revenge in the boy's heart..