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 "Oh! if I had his eyes, I should see but grandfather's heart, that you want.
all that he sees when we go walking to- Pray to God to fill your little heart with
gether; but now I can not see half so his fear and love, and then you will see
much as he does." all these things just as plain as your
 No? That is very strange, when you grandfather sees them."
are young, and he is old. He often And now, young friends, we will only
says that his sight is not what it used to add; if you have a grandfather or grand-
be ; and then, you know, though his Bi- mother in your home, be very tender and
ble is in large print, he is obliged to kind to them. If you live till your hair
use spectacles." is white and your eye dim, you will
 "Yes, mamma; but, for all that, he like to have the children you may meet
can see more than I can." gentle and kind and respectful to you.
 "Tell me what you mean, love; for I Let us all remember that in heaven
cannot at all understand you." we shall all be fresh and young again.
 "Why, when we walk out in the fields There will be no wrinkles and no gray
and lanes, let us look at what we will, he hairs there. Our limbs will never grow
says he sees God's goodness in every- weary as they walk the golden streets in
thing." our Father's home in the sky. May we
 "Ah, Flora! it is not grandfather's eyes, all meet in that happy home.






 "IN A MINUTE, MOTHER." wait "just a minute," that he will soon
 learn to put off until to-morrow that
"4 HARLEY, run to the shed, which he ought to do to-day. We all
 and bring me an armful of know that Procrastination is the thief
 S T ,/ wood," of time," and yet every day we allow him
 In a minute, mother." to steal the most valuable property that
 And Charley went on with his play, we have; property that we can never get
one minute, two minutes, three-and I again-that we cannot buy with silver or
don't know how many more, for I could gold.
not wait to see. But as I passed by the Think a moment, young reader! What
little cottage and saw that Charley did is this sly thief stealing from you to-day ?
not run to do his mother's bidding, I Don 't let him get hold of you as he did
thought, Poor Charley and poor moth- of Charley Be sure that he has got you
er too! Charley will always be behind- if you find yourself saying or thinking,
hand. He thinks it so much easier to Wait just a minute!"