he whispered some sweet texts out of the Bible in His ear. Perhaps he brought some message of comfort from the Eternal Father. Perhaps he told Him that His prayer, so earnest and so tearful, had been answered. We know not whether he helped Him by holding up His weary head, by giving Him a cup of cold water, or by whispering comfort to His soul. We only know that He needed the help of angels, and that they waited on Him like the little ship, to do what He might wish.

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Once, when on earth, Christ wanted to show a specimen of the people who live in heaven. So He took James and John and Peter, and went with them up a very high mountain. And there, away from men, with only these witnesses, He himself put on the garments of heaven. How His face shone! How His garments hung like melted silver upon Him! How light seemed pour out and flash out from His whole person Then two men, Moses and Elijah the prophet, come to meet Him. They also come in the robes of heaven! How glad they are to meet Him! How honoured above all in heaven, in having this opportunity of meeting Him! They do not talk about banks, or ships, or factories, or stores, or business, or gains, or money; they do not talk about places of honour ;-but they talk about His " death," which He was to die at Jerusalem! He wanted to talk with somebody about it; for He could not. talk about it with His disciples. They could not understand it.

They could not believe He would-so good and so holy a man-be put to death by wicked men! But Moses and Elijah understood it; and when He wanted to talk about it, they were there, all ready. He knew just where to find them, and just when they would come. They were like the little ship that waited upon Him.

And when He came to die, He needed a tomb. He wanted to borrow one,-not as we want ours, till the resurrection day,—but for only three days. Where will His friends find one? They have taken down His body, and are in haste to put it somewhere. Just then a rich man recollects that he has been hewing a new tomb out of a solid rock, and that it is in his garden near at hand. A new tomb, and in a solid rock! No man had ever been buried in it. Christ had never needed it before; but now, at the very moment when needed, the tomb is all ready! It is finished, and it is waiting for Him! The rock was created, and kept, and got ready, for this very purpose! Like the little ship, it waited upon Him!

How strange it is! Christ was so poor that He had not where to lay His head, and yet you see how His servants were around Him just when He needed them! It was as if He spake that they should wait on Him, and they obeyed! He had His servants in the air, in the sea, in the fields, by the wayside, in the river, in the mountains, in the solitary garden, in the great city, in the grave, and everywhere. They came

around Him,—the lilies, the birds, the wild ass, the fish, the boat, the men, and the angels, just when He wanted them. The waters would bear Him up, so that He could walk on them, to go to His friends, and out of raging storm He could call the sweet calm, and it came!

It is a great thing to have a Saviour so great that He can feed us every day of our life, clothe us all our days, teach us in our ignorance, be with us when we are sick, and get all ready for us when we die! Yet this is but a small part of what Christ can do for every little boy and every little girl. He has angels that He can send, when you die, to carry your soul to Him far up in the heaven of heavens. He has a place there, a beautiful home there, for every one who loves Him. The gates of heaven are His servants, and wait upon Him, and open to let His friends come in when they die. He has the grave of every one prepared, where he puts the body to wait till He comes back to earth; and He has an angel whose trumpet, at the resurrection, will wake up every sleeper in the grave; and He has many angels besides, whom He will send out as the farmer sends to gather in his harvest, and who will bring His own people all to heaven. These all wait on Him like the little ship.

The great trees wait on Him, and shelter His birds, and give shade to His flocks, and fruit to men, and timber for their houses, or for their ships, and fuel for their fires. The mighty rivers are His, and they run in the channels He

has made for them, and they water all the lands where they flow. The rocks are all His, and He uses one to make Him a tomb, or others to make Him a church. The silver and the gold are His, and He gives it and takes it away just as He pleases,—uses it to print His word, to send out His ministers, or to teach the little child in the Sabbath-school. The Sabbath is His servant, sent to speak in a soft, solemn voice, and call men to Him. The Bible is His servant,-sent out to instruct all the world, and lead men to Christ. All the angels in heaven, and all the robes of white there, and all the crowns of life there, and all the harps of gold there, are His servants. They all wait on Him. And so will the ages of eternity all pass before Him, for He "holds the keys of death and of hell, and He openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth."

O children! He speaks to you, that every little child should wait on Him, and be His friend and servant. And if that little ship that waited on Him was honoured, how much more will that little boy or that little girl be honoured, who obeys Him and loves Him! Who of you will be thus honoured,―to have Him bless you now, and bless you for ever in heaven?

"For I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts." MAL. i. 14.

CHILDREN, when we say we have stood on a rock, that is not saying whether the rock was large or small, round or square, of marble or of something else. When we say that we have admired a tree, that is not telling whether the tree was great or small, high or low, straight or crooked, ash or maple. Human language is so poor, that one word cannot describe a thing, and so we use adjectives, and use two or more words. When we speak of a king, that is not saying whether he is old or young, wise or foolish, strong or weak, honoured or despised. But when we speak of a great king, there is much