Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
Nelly suddenly exclaimed, "Who is that stranger-boy
coming this way with a bundle hanging by a stick over his shoulder?"
THE
ADOPTED SON
OR,
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LORD'S PRAYER.
BY
A. L. O. E.
AUTHOR OF "NED FRANKS," "PICTURES OF ST PAUL,"
"THE WHITE BEAR'S DEN," ETC.
GALL & INGLIS.
London: Edinburgh:
25 PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 20 BERNARD TERRACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
I. OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN
IV. THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
V. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
VI. FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE FORGIVE THEM THAT TRESPASS AGAINST US
VII. LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION
IX. FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER, AND THE GLORY
THE ADOPTED SON.
CHAPTER I.
"Our Father, which art in heaven."
"Oh! As I said before, it's all a matter of opinion. I think it a man'sduty to attend to his business, and get his children well on in theworld," observed Goldie, the fruiterer, as the baker's wife handed tohim a bag of captain's biscuits from behind her counter. "We must lookto our advantage in this life, Mrs. Winter."
"Ay, and in the next also," replied the woman quietly. Then bendingover the counter to a little flaxen-haired girl who had just enteredthe shop, "And what do you want, my dear?" she said.
"Please for twopenny-worth of sweet biscuits, three for a penny,"answered the child.
Mrs. Winter slowly plunged her hand into one of the neat glass jarswhich, carefully labelled with their various contents, adorned thefront of her window.
Mrs. Winter was a pattern of neatness, even to precision, her cap wasever of faultless white, her panes were as clean as hands could makethem, not a crumb was ever suffered to rest on her counter, and hername over the door shone in bright gilt letters that might have beenworthy of a shop in London. Precise and formal as some people deemedher, Mrs. Winter was a kind-hearted woman, too; much warm feeling layunder a stiff, cold manner; combined with a large sha