His text was from the words, 'Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

'What happier women might have thought of his sermon I cannot say; there was not a dry eye among us at the Refuge.

As for me, he touched my heart as no man has touched it before or since.

The hard despair melted in me at the sound of his voice; the weary round of my life showed its nobler side again while he spoke.

From that time I have accepted my hard lot, I have been a patient woman.