putting her arm round him, "O my child! my dear, dear child!" she said, "I cannot bear it! I cannot part with you yet!"
The poor little boy was affected: but he gently reproved her, saying, "If you love me, you will rejoice, because I go to my Father." John xiv. 28.
There was a considerable change in the child during the night; and all the next day till evening he lay in a
