ioo WARNING.

 Does it seem as if Elisha was cruel to those wicked
children ? He worked twelve miracles, and nearly all were
works of great mercy. Several of them were for children.
A woman who had been kind to him had an only son, and
he was dead. Elisha prayed to God, and God restored
him to life, and Elisha gave him back to the happy
mother.
 Another time a poor widow's two little sons were go-
ing to be sold for slaves to pay a debt of her dead hus-
band's. She had nothing in the house but a little pot of
oil; but he told her to borrow of all her neighbors plenty
of jars, and then pour into them from her little pot of oil.
She did so, and the oil kept coming, coming, until there
was enough to fill every jar; then she sold all the oil for
so much money as to pay all the debt and leave enough
for mother and boys to live upon.
 So you see it was for punishment to the mocking
children, and a warning to all the boys and girls who hear
it, that the two great hungry bears were sent out of the
wood. Oh, how little we think what a dreadful thing it
is to disobey and hate the blessed God.