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season, among the poorer classes, many
of whom sicken and die from hunger
and cold. In some parts of Scotland,
also, a great many families sometimes
suffer for want of food.

The story I have to tell you is re-
specting a family who lived in the

Highlands of Scotland. They were
- wretchedly poor. They could not get
enough to eat to make them comforta-
ble. The father and mother were good,
pious people. They loved their Heav-
enly Father; and when other help
‘failed, they looked to him for help.
They lifted up their voices to .him, and