lOeelily gftemawa American " MAY 6, 1910. NO. 43 AH That He Needed Last summer it was my privilege to epend an afternoon at a dear little home in one of the suburbs of Boston. The house was dainty in all its furnishings and altogether charming in its setting of apple trees, shrubs, flower beds and kitchen garden Until a year previous to the time of our visit, the family had consisted only of a man and his wife. Soon after we took our seats under the apple trees, a boy about 12 years old, with handsome face and shining eyes, came bounding up from the strawberry patch holding in each hand a basket of large luscious berries which he left- with us after a few peasant words, find bound ed away again. It was no wonder that our hostess caught the look of inquirv on out faces, and before we could ask the ques tion, "Who is he?" she said, as her eves followed him lovingly, "I will tell you about him, and he is helpful and obed ient as he is handsome, although I could not have said that a year ago." Then she told us how they had taken him into their home a year before against the protest of every one who knew the boy's record He was considered in the town a hopeless case, dishonest, defiant, his hand against every man, and every man against him. He was always getting in to trouble himself and making trouble for somebody else. The rough people with whom he lived were in the habit of beat ing him like a dog, and he hardly knew the meaning of kindness for he had never experienced it But the brave woman who told the story saw something in the boy which nobody else had ever seen or even dreamed of, and she simply said, "All this boy needs is love." With her husband's consent she took him into their home. He was disorderly, deceitful, and noisy He had never even seen a bath tub, and all his tastes were pad ly pei verted. But the woman was not di.-courged, and held to her conviction that all he needed was love. She did not :irgue, "Oh this disorderly dirty boy will spoil my home and make a lot of extra work for ino." She did not think how much more cooking she would have to feed such a hungry . growing boy; she was not afraid that he would steal her money or set fire to the housv but she simply applied her understanding of divine love to the case, always knowing that Love never faileth. When he came into the home she told him that he would never be whipped