afterward sat with the family.

Suddenly he said, "Mistress, what were the 'sayings' of Jesus? Sky-High
wishes to live on forever."

Mrs. Van Buren read the Beatitudes.

"And what is the heaven, mistress?"

"Sky-High," said Mrs. Van Buren, very earnestly, to her little servant,
"I scarcely know how to tell you what heaven is, only that we surely
have a part in its building here by our Loving and our Helping here. You
know how dear it is to be with those you love, you know how pleasant it
is to meet again those you have helped. That is the law of the soul. God
loves and helps us, and will rejoice in having us abide with him, and
that will make us happy; and all whom we have made better and happier
here will help make our heaven for us. Heaven is the gladness of Loving
and Helping as nearly as I know."

"That heaven--it is beautiful, mistress," said little Sky-High. In his
own country, it had been pleasant music to hear the "prayer-wheels" go
round in the temples, whirling the paper prayers fastened upon them, but
the pleasure he felt at this moment was different.

"I will help many, mistress," he said. "Perhaps Sky-High will help the
boys that pull his queue on the street when he goes errands to the
stores. Sky-High will go with his mistress and her children other
Sundays, if he may. Goodnight, mistress!"

So ended the Easter Sunday of the little Chinaman.