how glad I should be! I have such a fancy for one, for I think I could eat it.' • You shall soon have that,' said Robert; 'I will bring it to you myself.' So saying, he rose from his seat, and lifting up his little girl, he set off with a strong quick step for home. The fire was blazing bright when he entered his cheerful cottage, and the tea-pot was on the table ready for the water when it boiled; for Mary never staid away from Church to cook a Sunday dinner, nor would Robert have her do so for the best dinner in the parish. They knew the worth of the blessing of that God who has said; "In all places where I record my Name, I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee." Exodus xx. 24. But when Mary heard Robert's account, she was quite as ready to cook some potatoes as he was to have her do so. Before it was time to start for the afternoon service the potatoes were ready. Mary put some butter to them, and a little salt, cover

ing the plate over with another hot plate, and then wrapped it all up in a handkerchief. Robert still had an arm for his little girl, and taking the plates in his other hand he set off first, to leave them on his way to Church. There sat the poor old woman faint and cold; but she was rejoiced at the sight of her nice hot dinner; and when Robert returned from the service her sons were home, and they had made up a cheerful fire of wood.

Robert charged Mary to tell the minister's daughter about the blanket. So the next morning Mary went up to the

she said, 'she should not be

Rectory, for

able to rest,

till she had done what she could.' The minister's daughter was glad that Mary had named it to her at once; she mentioned it to a kind lady who lived in the parish, and who directly sent to the shop for a warm blanket, which she had well aired, and taken to the poor old woman. You can think

what a comfort she found it. Her cruel sons still slept under their mother's covering. God provided for her another; but this did not lessen their sin.

That Easter evening Robert said to Mary, 'I have had those words in my mind all day, where it speaks of heaven, and says,"They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat; but the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.'" (Rev. vii. 16, 17.) When Robert said the words the tears came at once into Mary's eyes, for she knew that he was thinking of their boy,-how safe he was from this world's suffering, as well as its sin, for ever in heaven!

CHAPTER XV.

ASCENSION DAY.

"And He led them out as far as to Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. And it came to pass that while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven."-Luke xxiv. 50, 51.

AFTER our blessed Lord's resurrection from the dead, He spent forty days on earth, and then He ascended up to heaven, from whence He had come down; according to His own words, which He had spoken before He suffered, "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world; again I leave the world, and go unto the Father." John xvi. 28. We have seen how Christ