Forty Eight Bernard Street Moody Colportage Library 134

Forty Eight Bernard Street by Mrs. Susan Rebecca Graham Clark
Moody Colportage Library number 134

Forty Eight Bernard Street
Mrs. S.R. Graham Clark, author
Moody Colportage Library number 134
Chicago: Moody Press. No publication date.
128 pages. 6.75 x 4.75 inches, 18 cm.

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Synopsis
Jean Myers is a pale faced little girl with a cruel hump on her back who has not been able to walk since she was two years old. Though bound to her wheelchair and not being able to leave her home, Jean has a sunny, contagious spirit because she lives through Jesus Christ. Jean's widowed mother must work six days a week at a tailor shop to support them but she is not lonely, for she has a dog named Squirrel and the many friends who visit along with the silent relationships she was formed with people who pass by her window.

Dr. Prescott, Jean's physician, is the first to find the light of Christ through her simple yet profound understanding of the difference between knowing intellectually that Jesus is the Son of God and having Christ's living light in one's own heart. God uses Dr. Prescott to witness to Ned Manton and to the new Pastor at Old Stone Church, leading them to accept Christ as their personal Savior. In turn, Ned and the Rev. Waller through Christ bring Ned's basketball team, Miss Daniel and her Sunday School class to saving faith while Old Stone Church experiences a revival.

The story ends with the basketball team bringing Jean to the church on Easter Sunday. It is the first time she has been able to go to church. Jean is overjoyed to see her friends baptized. In the last chapter Ned goes off to college where he witnesses his faith to classmates.