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The Faithful TeacherA 75-year-old woman had a Sunday school class two miles away in the mountains. One Sunday, there was a terrible rainstorm, and she considered not going that day, but she thought, “What if someone should go and not find me there?” She then put on her waterproof coat, umbrella, overshoes and went to her ministry.When she got there, she found only one young man and taught him the best she knew how. She never saw him again, but perhaps thought her class had been a failure that day. That week, the young man enlisted in the army. A year or two later, the teacher got a letter from the soldier thanking her for going through the storm that Sunday. The young man thought that stormy day he would go and see if the teacher was in earnest, and if she cared enough about souls to go through the rain. He found she came and taught him as carefully as if she were teaching a large class, and won the young man to Christ. When he lay dying in a field hospital, he sent the message to the teacher that he would meet her in Heaven. Was it not a glorious thing that she did not get discouraged because she had but one Sunday-school student? Be willing to work with one. You will never know this side of eternity what God will do with your efforts.