New Year's Gifts. in that New Year's Eve; for New at the door-bell sent the children of our party to the hall to see whether some fresh gift had arrived. Now it was a packing-case by the Parcels Delivery Company, now a piece of furniture brought by a shop van. Then a servant would leave a parcel and note; next with the postman's knock, would come a registered letter; or, with a sharp ring, a shop messenger with a package and the giver's card attached. There were pretty articles of jewelry, handsome books, household appointments, useful or ornamental, or both combined ; and great was our excitement as CONTENTS. . . Page “A little Child shall lead “He Brought it on Himself” 136 "A little while longer” 272 146 Almost and Altogether. 51 How Edward Foster Re. "Ask, and ye shall Receive” 35 membered his Sunday- Bible in the Home, The 236 | How the Persecutor was Conquered . 276 . |