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`` The reward God has given me ! '' She read aloud the contents of the letter , and there was a brief silence , broken at last by Mr. Hammond . `` Edna , my child , are you really happy ? '' `` So happy that I believe the wealth of California could not buy this sheet of paper , which assures me that I have been instrumental in bringing sunshine to a darkened household ; in calling the head of a family from haunts of vice and midnight orgies back to his wife and children ; back to the shrine of prayer at his own hearthstone ! I have not lived in vain , for through my work a human soul has been brought to Jesus , and I thank God that I am accounted worthy to labor in my Lord 's vineyard ! Oh ! I will wear that happy wife 's blessing in my inmost heart , and like those old bells in Cambridgeshire , inscribed , ` Pestem fungo !