A man had a large Sunday school and he would not turn a boy out on account of bad conduct.  He considered that those boys did not have the advantages of a good bringing up and for that very reason they should not be thrown out. 

Then he had a boy come along that tested his belief.  He would put this boy under one teacher after another and nothing could be done with him.  Finally, after several teachers, he decided to expel him from the school.  He was going to do it publicly as an example to all the other boys.  But there was a lady teacher who came to the superintendent and said, “I wish you would let me have that boy.”  The man said, “But he is such a bad boy; he uses such vulgar language.  All those men can’t do anything with him, and I think, I am sure you can’t.”  The lady responded, “ I am not doing much for Christ, and it may be that I can win him.”  She was a lady of refined society, and the man thought, “Surely, she won’t be willing to have patience with that boy.”  Well the man went ahead and gave her that boy.

He behaved well for a few Sundays and then on Sunday he behaved badly.  The lady corrected him and the boy then spat in her face.  She quietly took her handkerchief and wiped her face.  The lady said, “I wish you would go home with me.  I want to talk with you.”  “Well, I won’t.  I won’t be seen on the street with you, and what’s more, I won’t ever come to this Sunday school any more.”  The lady then said, “Well if you won’t walk home with me, let me walk home with you.”  “No” the boy said.  This boy was not going to come to that old dirty Sunday school anymore.

The lady knew that if she was going to reach that boy it must be now.  She then decided to appeal to his curiosity.  She said, “If you will come to my house, next Tuesday morning, I shan’t be there; but if you will go there and ring the front door bell, and tell the servant there is a little bundle on the bureau for you, she will give it to you.”  The little boy said that he would not come.  The boy thought it over and over.  He wanted to know what was in that bundle.  So Tuesday morning he went to the house and as promised the bundle was handed to him.  Inside there was a little vest in it, and a little necktie that she had made with her own hands, and a kind note stating that ever since he had been in her class she had been praying for him every morning and every evening, and she told him how she loved him and cared for him. 

Early Wednesday morning he came to the house.  The lady came down and found the boy weeping on the sofa.  She said, “ What is the trouble?”  The boy responded, “ O teacher, I have had no peace since I got that not from you.”  The lady got down and prayed with the little boy.  Later the superintendent said, “There is not a better boy in the school.  Love conquered him.”