The broken chain Author:A. L. O. E. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It was with a thankful and joyful heart that Grace Milner wended her way through the crowded streets of London. She had just been granted her heart's desire: she... more » had been accepted as a female teacher by a missionary society for the conversion of the Jews, and a life which few, perhaps, would covet, but which to her appeared one of delight, was opening before the clergyman's orphan. It was a life of independence, and Grace had an honest pleasure in earning her own bread, and having the means even to assist others : it was a life of usefulness, and Grace longed to be able to do some good in the world. And the teacher was young, and of an ardent spirit; to her the very journey offered great attractions: travelling gave her exquisite pleasure, all the greater, perhaps, because shehad hitherto seldom enjoyed opportunities of travelling. Grace had not a single relative from whom it would be a pain to part — she stood lonely in the world, except so far as she belonged to the family of God. She was full of hope, that she might be made a blessing where she was going. Grace had a great talent for learning foreign languages, and what to many is a weary task, tocher was only an amusement. She felt that she was peculiarly suited for the position in which Providence had placed her, and would not have exchanged her lot for that of any queen in the world. " Oh! to think of visiting the land in which my Saviour lived and died!" was the reflection of the young teacher as she threaded her way, careless of all that was passing around her ; " to think of gazing upon Jerusalem, the guilty yet sacred city, of standing in the garden of Geth- semane, where the Holy One knelt and prayed ! And then to be permitted to lead the little ones of Israel to the footstool of the Saviour! To besurrounded by young...« less