situation among the hills; and there our dear Lord spent all his early years. There is no place in the Holy Land I should like more to visit. Should not you?"

Yes, very much. But, mamma, I should like to hear more of what Jesus did when he was a child."

"So should I, but God has not told us much. But you remember how he would be different from any other child." "He had no sin, mamma; He would never do what was wrong.'

"Never, Ellen; never made his mother sad, and to feel a pain in her heart.”

Poor Ellen looked very sad now, for the evening before she had been disobedient, and vexed her mamma very much. She did not speak, but laid her head on her mamma's knee, and began to weep; and Harry looked as if he could cry too.

"Ellen," said Mrs. Ross, "we will not speak of your fault now. You asked God to forgive you for Jesus' sake, and he has promised to hear us when we do

So. You must ask his help to keep you from the same sin again."

"Oh, mamma, will you give me a kiss now before we go on?"

"Yes, my dear child." So Mrs. Ross kissed them both, and then she said, "It is a great comfort to papa and myself to know that Jesus was once a little child like our own dear ones, and that he did what you cannot do, obeyed perfectly all the commandments of God; and, therefore, if you love and trust in him, God will consider it as done for you. This you will understand better in a few years. But even now it should be a comfort to both of you to think, Jesus, my Lord and Saviour, was once a child like me. He knows the heart of a child, the sorrows of a child. He will hear me, and help me, when I pray to him. Now, Ellen, read to us about the picture."

"Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem, after the custom of the feast."-Luke ii. 41, 42.