A TOUCHING STORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2

A TOUCHING STORY.

The following touching incident was related to me a" short time since by a dear' friend for whose veracity I can vouch with my life, and who was an eye-witness of the occurrence. It took place in the great city of New York on one of the coldest days of February last, A little hoy about ten years old standing before a shoe store in Broadway, barefooted, peering through the window and shivering with cold. A lady riding up the street in a beautiful carriage, drawn by horses finely caparisoned, observed the little fellow in his forlorn condition, and immediately ordered the driver to stop at tbe store, The lady, richly dressed in silk, alighted from her carriage went quietly to tho boy, and said i " My little fellow, why are you looking bo earnestly in that window ?" " I was just asking God to give mo a pair of shoes." ma the reply. The lady took him by the hand, and went into the store and asked the proprietor if he would allow one of his clerks to go and buy her halt a dozon pairs of stockings for tho boy, She then asked him if he could give her a basin of water and a towel and ho replied " Certainly" and quickly brought them to her, She took the little fellow to the stove, and removed her gloves washed those little feet, and dried them with the towel. By this time the young man had returned with tho stockings. Placing a pair on the boy, she purchased and gave him a pair of shoes, and tying up the remaining pairs gave them to him, and patting him on tho head said : "2. hope my little fellow that you now feel iH comfortable." As she turned to go, \m astonished lad caught her hand, and looking up into her face with tears in his eyes, answered her question with those -words j V, " Are you God's wife ?"—Parish Register, J