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

folding her hands together as she seated herself in the bow-window

innie, "why, I am

answered Alice; "we shall miss our

s tells us one every

-smiling. "Sometimes, perhaps, I may, bu

; "but let us begin

d-G

ce again I saw the boys in w

ring the Hills, above w

cription, and I thought I could see beneath the s

own on some parts of the River, bu

ding near it, and Edred was

nd and glancing in his companion's face, "to think of hav

of looking up at the Glory, we do get depressed. But, you kno

perish in the final water, Alwin. No; I will not look down into the River any longer,

en since we have neared this River, I have had to turn

as you are, Alwin; but I do love it much more

read it

wn on the grass by the side of the water, and

t, and with one glance upwards at the radiance over the Hills, he turned towards his companion and read in a thrilling t

to a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and

on his friend's face at first, had been latterly directed upw

d soon have to pass through it. Ever since we were in that Cavern of Death I have known it, but now I fear it no long

ad for a moment illumined the dark river pa

f it, his eyes were fix

eave me alone?" said th

the King. He told me some littl

d!" murmu

ould not have believed that His words would have cheered me

to the River, which looke

those standing on the bank and the Shore

by-and-by he turned once more to the Book in his hand, and as

mured to himself, and tu

r ever I was aware, I found he too had entered the wat

iant, and when the mist almost hid him from my view, I heard a trium

lap during the narration of this dream, a

all?" she s

re is no end to the G

that is the best of Heaven-there

eousness-Glory-seems to me to be expressed in these words, 'That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unt