24 CHILDREN'S BOOK FOR SABBATH HOURS.

 TELLING A SECRET. ever think how much your mother has to
 do in making your home what it is ?
 H yes, telling mamma a secret. It is not the walls of the building in
 Have you not done it a hun- which you live," says one, "that make
 dred times ? And is not.that a your earthly home, but the company of
 happy moment when you can go those you love."
and whisper into your mother's ear some A little boy, about four or five years
little secret that you know she will be old, was returning from school one day.
pleased to hear-perhaps, some plan you He bounded into the house, exclaiming,
have formed to do something that will as he hung his hat up in the entry,-
make papa, or brother or sister happy, or This is my home This is my home !
as in the picture, to tell her you have won This is my home! "
a prize at school ? You know that it will A lady, on a visit to his mother, was
please her to learn that you have been a sitting in the parlor. She said to him,--
good boy at school and have obtained a "Willie, the house next door is just the
reward, same as this. Suppose you go in there
 All children should make mother the and hang up your cap in the entry,
keeper of their secrets. There can be wouldn't that be your home as much as
scarcely any thing that it is best to keep this ? "
from her. You can hardly be more in- No, ma'am," said Willie, very earn-
terested in your own happiness than estly, it would not."
your -mother is. You can carry every "Why not?" asked the lady. "What
joy and every grief, however small, to makes this house your home more than
her and she will ever be ready to rejoice that?"
in your joy and to sympathize with you Willie had never thought of this be-
in your sorrow, fore. But, after a moment's pause, he
 You know we can keep nothing from ran up to his mother, and, throwing his
God. All our actions and words and our arms around her neck, he said,-
inmost thoughts are known to him. If It is because my dear mother lives
we love him, and love to do what is right, here."
we shall be glad to have him know every Yes, it is the presence and company
thought of our hearts. He invites us to of those we love which makes our earth-
cast our cares and burdens on him, for ly home; and it is just so with our heav-
he careth for us. And children should enly home.
feel just so in regard to their mother. And here is what another person says :
 It is always an excellent sign when a Yes ; but no one will ever be as kind
boy, of whatever age, thinks a good deal to me as my mother." So said a little
of his mother; and is ever anxious to do girl to me as I sat down between her and
what he thinks will please her. Did you a younger brother, with my arm around