thrones. The holy influence of their love touches, not single hearts, but the hearts of parents, grand-parents, brothers, sisters, and near favorite friends, of which little children always have many! Think, too, that their memories speak no uncertain language - they point those left behind only to Heaven, and they point direct to Heaven. All know and believe that there is their home.

They exert their influence, too, at the most favorable time. Immediately after bereavement, when the hearts of those left behind are yet tender from the wound. Afterwards, in every lonely and distressful hour, they woo the heart silently and sweetly away toward that land where there is no more sorrow. Often, too, over a long period of years, does the influence of their attractive love follow those who are sad for their early removal from their hearts and homes. For

'Tis a work

Of many a dark hour, and of many a prayer,
To bring the heart back from an infant gone!

Still more tenderly is their influence felt when one' or other of the parents, brothers, or sisters, draws down toward the gate of death; how strong and pleasant is the allurement from the other side! Oh! how like a ray from Heaven, in that hour, is the thought of the dying one: "I shall go to them!"

Besides, does not every object in the house, and around us, bring to us thoughts of our infants in Heaven? We see them again, when a hasty search-errand to the drawer, exposes to our view the clothes and play-things which they have left behind. We close it,

and weep as we go away! We miss them everywhere. We see them everywhere; and, yet again, they are not there but in Heaven! Thither they direct our thoughts, and then fill them with their own loved image.

We never look up with a vow to the sky,

But a light, like their beauty, is there;
And we hear a low murmur, like theirs, in reply,
When we pour out our spirit in prayer.

"Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.” Oh, blessed Saviour! what words are these! What a motive to resignation!—there are many little children in Heaven, and there are many more in the Church on earth that will be in Heaven at last, therefore suffer yours to come! We will humbly and joyfully obey the Saviour, and yield to the motive. Those that are still with us on earth we will train for Heaven. Those already there-shall we bring them back again? We shall go to them, but they shall not return to us!

Yes, we will go to them—if we are pious! We will see them in Heaven- if we get there ourselves! If we are pious yet a little while, and we shall be with them! If we are not pious-yet a little while, and we shall see them no more for ever!

THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS.

There is a reaper, whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen

He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.

"Shall I have nought that is fair?" saith he-
"Have nought but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again."

He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,
He kissed their drooping leaves;

It was for the Lord of Paradise

He bound them in his sheaves.

"My Lord hath need of the flowerets gay,"
The reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,

Where He was once a child.

“They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care;

And saints upon their garments white
These sacred blossoms wear."

And the Mother gave, in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she would find them all again
In the fields of light above.

O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,

The reaper came that day;

'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away.

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THE END.

PROF. LONGFELLOW.

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