The author's purpose-"This story has been written to show, as in a picture, what ministering children are. There is no child upon Earth, who may not be a ministering child; because the Holy Spirit of God, even the blessed Comforter Himself, will come to every one who asks for Him. Even the beloved Son of God, when He came down from Heaven to Earth, came to minister to those who were in need-He Himself tells us so." This book was written from twenty years of first-hand experience of making cottage visitations with her father who was a rector. The characters in the narrative visited the sick,...