Left to Ourselves; or, John Headley's Promise.

me for you by post!" said Minnie as Mrs. Head

it, and weighing it, and smelling it-doing ev

" said Minnie shyly, "and I believe J

their mother, smiling, while she se

" observed Hugh, looking up from

curiosity, and I will see who can tell me

hat it is, mothe

and their father had gone off to his business, Mrs. Headl

," said

she can undo it," laughed Hugh

y," said John, "or we couldn't w

earer. As she spoke the paper fell open, and t

rs. Headley placed her hand over them, taking up o

book," s

readin

their astonishment there was nothi

ugh. "It would not be much tr

o learn that black page,

me read the outside, moth

his mother, still show

out," said Alice, who was looking on wit

the next leaf, and t

ugh; "is this difficu

and answered. "Not so hard as the

gnes, with a tender li

med Alice; "and I be

h; "for I suppose you do not m

ow lovely it looks! Is this

, "that is the easiest pag

told us the meaning of the last

you of, dears?" she asked, i

lindness," "being lost,"

. Headley; "but

er?" asked Agnes

opeless night,' 'discomfort,' 'blindness,' 'being lost'

John hastily, "the red is

n take the black sin away. But that can; yes, the bl

y," said Hugh,

feel that we are utterly black a

mot

out all remembrance of the sin. The Lamb of

tiful!" s

ned to the next

lood has cleansed

now," said Min

nk the white reminds us of two or three

ought to be?"

ure He is," ans

and made them white in the blood of the Lamb,

introduces us to our final p

" said

," sai

hat one page which cost Him His life's blood. Now, dear children, repeat over

ed-Whit

ords as their mother turned

Righteousn

earnestness which impressed her young hearers, "May all of you fly from the f

ing long and lovingly at her little treasure, as

whole story on each page,

us one," answered Minni

l next Sunday,