Solace for years to come.

But He who better knew their need
Laid its fair blossoms low;--
Between their souls and heaven's clear light
Tendril nor leaf might grow.

Then oh! how sad the grassy mounds
Its graceful growth had veiled!--
How sere and faded was their life,
Its fragrance all exhaled;--

Till from the blue o'erarching sky,
A clearer beam was given,
A light that showed them _labor_ here,
And promised _joy_ in heaven.

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Original.

GLEANINGS BY THE WAYSIDE. No. 2.


I shall attempt to show by an every-day sort of logic, rather than by
any set argument, that young children, when religiously educated, do at
a very early age comprehend the being of a God,--that the mind is so
constituted that to such prayer is usually an agreeable service,--that
in times of sickness or difficulty, or when they have done wrong, they