Year: 1860

anger SurpaSSeS week ana errlng crea-
ture of earth"


"Grieye no morer' said the heavenly
being, IS she came to me. "I have not
taken this innocent one from you in an
ger or cruelty, but in love-love for the
mother, and child. As for him, he is
safe in his celestial home forever, and is
and will be blessed far above anything
you could ask-for it hath not entered
into the heart of even a mother to con-
ceiye what transcendant delights are in
store for those who are born into heaven.
Is it not therefore better for our child?
Were Ito say, take him again into the
cold, dark world of sorrow, sin and suf-
fering, would you bear him back? No,
grieving mother, moi You love this
precious one too we'll. But how is it
better for you to lose the child in whom
your heart was so bound up? l see the
question on your lips. That is always
best which lifts the spirit nearest to God
is it not so? Think! Not with a
heavenly, but with an earthly and sell
fish affection, did you love your child
such an affection could not truly bless
either you or your babe. 1t is now in
heaven, and as your heart follows it
there, it will come into heavenly asso-
Citations, and thus be filled with aspira-
tions for that higher life which descends
from and bears back its recipient into
heaven. Grieying one I came to you
in mercy, and though tears have followed
my visit, they are falling on good seeds
planted in your heart,


"Thus spoke to me that angel-mother
of my child, and ever since her words
have been my stay and comfort. Such
an angel come to you last night, griev-
ing friend. The visit was in love, not in
anger. Then lift your eyes upward, and
no longer permit them to rest on the cold
earth form and the gloomy grave. The
spirit of your child has already arisen
more beautiful in form, and is with an
gels appointed for its guardianship
The wiser love of our good Father has
removed it. Be thankful, then, dear
friend. Oh, be thankfuR-but weep
not!'' ss H..s.s.
And the heart, which no words Of
consolation had been able to reach, felt
itself swelling with a deep emotion, and
lifting itself upward toward the All
Merciful. -..
| 81 will believe that it was an angel
who came here last night and bore away
my child" she whispered, as with shut
eyes, fringed by -gemmed lashes,
she bowed her head upon the bosom OF
her consoler. "Oh, if anything can
soothe the anguishment of this bereave-
ment, it is to think thatmy precious babe,
for whom [ have cared so tenderly,
passed from my arms to those OF an
angel, and that he was thus borne safely
across the dark valley into which |
looked down with such heart-shudder,
bless you for speaking such words of
consolation


Not alone in misfortune or bereave-
ment do angels visit us. They do not
always make the way rough, nor al.
ways darken the earth-fres around
which we gather. Daily they come to
us, hourly they seek to draw nearer and
quicken our better impulses. A thou.
sand evils; soul destroying eyils--are
warded off by them, even thoug h we are
unconscious of their presence, and, it
tmay be, resist the very influences by
which such priceless benefits are CON
Iferred


'sAh! if we could but open our eyes
and see; if the scales that obstruct oul
Inner vision could be removed; if We
could know our celestial visitors when
they come!" ~


| We may know them; and we may per.
lceiye their presence. Whether we are
in prosperity or adversely, in joy or in
sorrow, angel-visitors are with us when.
ever the thought goes upward and the
heart yearns for better life. Then
mission to the sons of men is to draw
them heavenward; and if sorrow, saflic,
ton or adversity, is needed for the ac-
complishment Of the great end, they are


made subservient in the good work.


But when in their high mission, they
bow a thirsty soul. to the bitter waters


of Marah, their hands hold not bach
the healing leaves, and a song of re
joicing is soon heard instead of lamenta


ton. Happy is that spirit to which
the angels come not on their errand O
mercy in vain!- Gleason s Pictorial. 2sa