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A lovely woman learned of a district in a great city whose people are ruled by the lowest passions. They live in wretchedness and degradation. Moved by a loving pity, she leaves her own happy home, and goes to live in the midst of these debased men and women. She moves in and out among them. She teaches their children. She visits their miserable abodes when they are sick, and ministers to their needs. It is a costly serving for her. She suffers terribly in her sensitive soul from their abject wickedness. But she makes not complaint, and continues to live out her sweet, pure life among them. Her goodness touches their vileness and begins to dispel it. Her love blesses their soiled lives.
There she stays, loving, patient, a ministering angel, giving out her life, until that spot of wretchedness had begun to change. The degradation yields to purity. Into the squalor of their homes come bits of beauty, hints of refinement. On the Sabbath you may see this fair angel-woman, with a company of restored lives about her which she has lifted up out of sin and debasement, by the mighty power of her pure, unselfish love. That is Christlike serving.