WHAT A LITTLE GIRL DID.
By Methodist Recorder
A GOOD many years ago a little girl of twelve years of age was passing an old brick prison in the city of Chicago, on her way to school, when she saw a hand beckoning from behind a cell window, and heard a weary voice asking her to please bring him something to read. For many weeks after, she went to the prison every Sunday, carrying the poor prisoner a book to read from her father’s library. At last, one day, she was called to his deathbed. "Little girl," said he, "you have saved my soul. Promise me that you will do all your life for the poor people in prison what you have done for me." The little girl promised, and she kept her promise. Linda Gilbert has been all her life the steadfast friend of the prisoner. She has established good libraries in many prisons, and visited and helped hundreds of prisoners; and from the great number whom she has helped, six hundred are now, to her certain knowledge, leading honest lives. Prisoners from all parts of the country know and love her name, and surely the God of prisoners must look upon her work with interest. And all this because a little girl heard and heeded the call to help a suffering soul.—Methodist Recorder.