She was unknown to us all, except that, as I since found out, her regularity and abstinence from the sins and follies of her young equals in age and station brought upon her many taunts and jeers from others, which she bore very meekly; but at that time I knew it not.
I was young myself in the ministry, and younger in Christian experience.
My parochial plans had not as yet assumed such a principle of practical order and inquiry as to make me acquainted with the character and conduct of each family and individual in my flock.
I was then quite a learner, and had much to learn.
And what am I now?
A learner still; and if I have learned anything, it is this, that I have every day more and more yet to learn.

Of this I am certain, that my young scholar soon became my teacher.

I _first_ saw what true religion could accomplish in witnessing her experience of it.
The Lord once "called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of his disciples" as an emblem and an illustration of his doctrine.

But the Lord did more in the case of little Jane.

He not only called _her_ as a child to show, by a similitude, what conversion means, but he also called her by his grace to be a vessel of mercy, and a living witness of that almighty power and love by which her own heart was turned to God..