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Work, dear Christian mothers, with this end in view, and Godwill in due time show that your labor has not been in vain, in theLord. Humble and obscure though you may seem, you have ablessed mission to fulfill. God bless you all and give youwisdom, and patience, and constancy, and prudence, and faith,and hope, and love, and grace in every way sufficient to actnobly your part, while you walk humbly with God casting yourcare upon him knowing that he careth for you and yoursspecially, for your sake.MRS. C. T. R.====================R1098 : page 7THE POWER OF THE TRUTH.The Lord seems to lay hold by his truth upon a variety ofcharacters, in his call to joint-heirship. The following letters allshowing excellent spirit, represent some of these. They serve toshow that the power of the truth extends to all classes and thatthe Lord accepts of and is willing to bless and use all who acceptof his righteousness and desire to render him service.The first is from an ex-convict, recently released from the Houseof Correction in Detroit, where he served a long term forhighway-robbery. We know not how the truth reached himthere, but it made him free from his old master Sin. Since hisrelease he has started into what he says shall be his life-work,preaching the truth by selling DAWN, and he meets with goodsuccess. The TOWER goes to three other convicts, one in Joliet,Ills., one in Detroit and one in Allegheny.The other letters explain themselves.House of Correction, Detroit, Mich.DEAR BROTHER:--...When I got into trouble, I did not wish tohave my people exposed to the disgrace that a knowledge of mysituation would be sure to bring upon them; and I adopted anassumed name and have not written to them nor heard fromthem since.This pride that prevented me from writing to my people, andreceiving of their assistance, would also hinder me from goinghome, if I did not have suitable clothing, and sufficient money tosatisfy it. But I was thinking, if my parents are still living, theystill have affection for me, and how much greater their joywould be to have me come home clothed in the rich robes ofChrist's righteousness, than to come clothed in the scarlet andpurple of sin, or soft raiment of my own provision, which wouldbe but as filthy rags in comparison. Besides, if I am seeking notmy own glory, but the glory of my Master, and if His

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