hose children had
all been early taught to love and serve Jesus, was asked the secret
of her success in bringing up her children. This was her
answer:--"While my children were infants on my lap, as I washed them
day by day, I raised my heart to God that he would wash them in that
blood which cleanseth from all sin; as I clothed them in the morning,
I asked my heavenly Father to clothe them with the robe of Christ's
righteousness; as I provided them food I prayed that God would feed
their souls with the bread of heaven, and give them to drink of the
water of life. When I prepared them for the house of God I pleaded
that their bodies might be made fit temples for the Holy Ghost to
dwell in. When they left me daily for the week-day school, I followed
their youthful footsteps with the prayer that their path through life
might be like that of the just, which shineth more and more unto the
perfect day. And night after night, as I committed them to rest, the
silent breathing of my soul has been, that their heavenly Father
would take them under his tender care and fold them in his loving,
everlasting arms."

Let Christian mothers follow this example and they will not fail to
bring the angel out from every block of living marble that God has
given them.

"The Best Time for Doing This." A faithful minister of Christ had a
dear only daughter. She had been a thoughtful praying child. When
only twelve years old she had joined her father's church. She now lay
on her dying bed. "As I sat by her bedside," says her father, "among
the things she said which I shall never forget were these:--'Father
you know I joined the church when I was young--very young. Some of
our friends thought that I was too young. But, oh! how I wish I could
tell everybody what a comfort it is to me now to think of it.' Then
reaching out her hand--the fingers were already cold--and grasping
mine, she said with great earnestness:--'Father, you are at work for
the young. Do all you can for them while they are young. It's the
best time--the best time. Oh! I see it now as I never did before. It
is the best time--while they are young--the younger the better. Do
all you can for them while they are very young.' And then she fell
asleep in Jesus."

This is the lesson about the work we are to do for him on earth, that
Jesus taught in what he said concerning the children.

But when we think of those sweet words of Jesus--"Of such is the
kingdom of heaven," we are _tau