Sarah was just a poor girl, 19 years old, who made a living as a dressmaker. She loved the Lord Jesus and she longed that others might learn to love Him too.
One Sunday she went to the jail and asked the warden if she might visit the women there. Visiting was not usually allowed, but the warden’s heart was touched and he let the girl go into the jail.
Sarah went again and again. She talked and prayed with the poor women, wept with them too, and some of them came to know and love the Saviour.
Sarah grew to love this work so well, that she spent every Sunday afternoon visiting at the jail. Then, poor though she was, she gave up her sewing one day a week in order to have more time to work for her Saviour. Finally she left her dressmaking altogether and spent every day trying to help the poor women in the prison.
Sarah worked so hard that she didn’t live to be very old. Many women in the jail have cause to thank the Lord for her, through whom they came to know Him as the sinner’s Friend.
ML-08/13/1978