The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life . mother, who.but for this would falter and fail, and sooften a weary, toiling father in returning to hishome is paid much more in the prattle, smilesand love of his child than in what he has receivedin dollars and cents from his daily toil. Who^•ever heard a great company of children singingtheir sweet praise to Jesus and did not, when hestopped to think, believe they were in leaguewith the angels in winning this dark world forChrist? It seems to me that if there is anythingon eart
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The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life . mother, who.but for this would falter and fail, and sooften a weary, toiling father in returning to hishome is paid much more in the prattle, smilesand love of his child than in what he has receivedin dollars and cents from his daily toil. Who^•ever heard a great company of children singingtheir sweet praise to Jesus and did not, when hestopped to think, believe they were in leaguewith the angels in winning this dark world forChrist? It seems to me that if there is anythingon earth that will touch the barrenness and alloyin the human heart of sin, it is the innocent, pureand unselfish plea of a child. Ah, what but thehardest heart could resist its pleadings. Is itany wonder that Christ in His preparing man-sions for us, and in His beautifying and adorn-ing His Heavenly garden stoops down to earthand from His garden here, plucks one of theselittle flowers so often, not only for its beauty andloveliness and His need of it for His Heavenlygarden, but also that it may thus be the means. VISIONS OF THE DYING CHILD. THE THREE CIRCLES. 203 of drawing its parents after it; the thought ofseeing great multitudes of them in all their inno-cence and beauty in Heaven is of itself enoughto make us yearn and strive very hard for sucha place; in fact Heaven would not be Heavenwithout them. Oh, parents, do not fret over thefuture of your child called away; when aspure as it is and as ready for Heaven, may younot feel happy indeed; one mother was thankful, she said, That she had a flower that the Saviordesired for His Heavenly Kingdom. Oh, muchas it breaks our hearts, we instinctively feel aswe bend over the lifeless form of a dear babe, that it is far better off than if it had been left inthe world of sin. Most certainly their little minds and souls willbegin to unfold as soon as they reach Heaven, and so much more rapidly in that pure, uninter-rupted clime where there i