I believe they will carry him home, with songs of gladness; and oh what a welcome he will receive when he enters the gates of the Celestial City! for the Bible tells us 'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints;' and that 'He shall see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied.' It tells us that His love for his people exceeds in depth and tenderness that of a mother for her child.

Then how must he rejoice over each one of his ransomed ones as he takes them in his arms and bids them welcome to the blissful mansions he has prepared for them." "Yes; I shall be glad for papa; but O Aunt Elsie, what can I do without him ?" "God will help and comfort you, dear child; he will be your father," Elsie said with emotion.

"'A Father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.'" "It is a very sweet promise," said Evelyn.

"Aunt Elsie, I wish I knew that was a true, a real occurrence--that story of Dives and Lazarus; for then I should be quite sure that angels do come to carry home Christians when they die, and that they would come for papa; but some people say it is only a parable." "But the Bible does not say so," returned Elsie.

"Jesus narrates it as a real occurrence, and I believe it was.