Sometimes it is so still--so still, and sometimes so joyous, that I long for wings to fly up to God, and thank Him!" "O friend," said the parson, "this is the true sympathy between life and nature, and thus we should feel ever, did we take more care to preserve the health and innocence of a child.

We are told that we must become as children to enter into the kingdom of Heaven; methinks we should also become as children to know what delight there is in our heritage of earth!".