across the lake. The songs and the beauty moved Mary's soul. She wanted
something with all her heart that she had never wanted before. She did
not know what it (the great change) was at first, but before she slept
she turned to another girl in the tent and expressed it as best she
could--"I want to be _good_," she said.

Through the weeks that followed she saw in the faces, in the kindness
and courtesy, in the good times she had never known, in the women who
planned them and in the songs and talks at sunset a _Person_. She heard
His name often. He represented all of the happiness and comfort she had
ever known and one day with all the eagerness of an awakened soul she
said, "I love Him." They told her what changes must come in the life of
a girl who said those words and meant them, for they had seen the faults
in her and they were many. She was undaunted by all they said she must
do, and answered in her uncouth fashion, "I'd die doin' them fur Him."

They wanted her to leave the mill but she said no, one of the girls was
leaving and she was to have her place with lighter work. She wanted to
go back and tell the girls some things, she said.

Not three years have passed but Mary D---- is a new girl. She is
attractive; one can scarcely believe unless he has seen it. She is
clean; she is happy. Her friends secured a position for her father
out-of-doors where he had loved to work as a boy. Mary took him to the
Mission and there he promised to begin the fight against his enemy. The
men in the Mission helped. Regular pay made a decent home possible. They
have begun to live.

Overcome by the effects of ignorance and sin, failures as citizens, as
individuals, as human souls, they met a _Person_ and life was