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Updated: May 15, 2025
It ain't no goodness of mine, I'm well aware of that. It's the Lord's doing, and his blessing on Thomas Bradly's kindness and care for a poor, wretched, ruined sinner like me.
I can't help feeling with you that, somehow or other, poor Jane's getting near the end of the wood, and will come out into the sunshine afore so very long." A few days after the disclosure of Jane Bradly's trouble to the vicar, he met her brother Thomas in the evening hurrying away from his house. "Nothing amiss at home, I hope, Thomas?" he inquired.
Not that there was anything grand or ambitious in its outward appearance, nor sufficiently peculiar to draw any special attention to it. It was rather wider in front than the ordinary working-men's cottages, and had a stone parapet above the upper windows, running the whole length of the building, on which were painted, in large black letters, the words, "Bradly's Temperance Hospital."
Then she opened it, and, as she turned over leaf after leaf, her eye fell on many a well-known underlined text, and the cloud had given place to sunshine on her gentle features as her brother left the house and returned to William Foster's. "You are satisfied that we know nothing about the bag or the bracelet, I hope?" asked Foster anxiously on Bradly's return.
"No," was Bradly's reply; "I mend broken hearts, and put drunkards' homes into their proper places when they've got out of joint." "Indeed! You'll be clever to do that, Tommy." "Ah! You don't know, Bill. P'raps you'll come and try my skill yourself afore long." The other turned away with a scornful laugh and a gibe; but the arrow had hit its mark. But, indeed, what Thomas Bradly said was true.
The vicar opened it; it was signed TB, and was as follows: "All right I have got it hurrah! Tell Jane." An hour later found the vicar in Thomas Bradly's comfortable kitchen, and seated by his sister. "Jane," he began, "I have often brought you the best of all good news, the gospel's glad tidings; perhaps you won't be sorry to hear a little of this world's good news from me."
Ay, and there's many of the old lot as knows the change, and what the Lord's done for me, and they're very mad, some on 'em; but that don't matter, so long as they don't make a madman of me. "But just a word or two for you boys and girls of the Band of Hope afore I sit down. Now, I've brought with me, by Mr Bradly's leave, something to show you."
Jane, whose quick eye marked every change in her brother's countenance, was persuaded that there was something more than usually amiss, for the light on Bradly's habitually cheerful face to be clouded, and gently asked the cause. "To tell you the truth, dear Jane," he replied, "I am troubled, spite of myself, about your matter." "What, Thomas! Have you heard anything fresh?"
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