y of your body.

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"MARY'S GREAT TREASURE"

More than twenty years ago, there was a little blue-eyed, curly-haired
child playing about one of the pleasant homes in the West. She was
happy and kind, and every one loved her. She was only six years old,
yet she had a great treasure in her possession--greater than many of
the kings and queens of the earth can claim.

What do you suppose this treasure was? Was it a valuable diamond? Was
it an immense amount of silver and gold? Something better than
diamonds or silver and gold, was in this little girl's
keeping--something which will be safe when these have all perished.

I will tell you what this treasure was, because I want you to be as
rich as Mary, and, through the great goodness of God, you may all have
just such a precious gift. It was a NEW HEART--a heart that loved her
heavenly Father, that loved to pray to him and ask him to keep her
from sin.

Mary often talked with her companions about Jesus, and before she was
ten years old several of them had been brought to love and obey him,
and had, like Mary, a new heart. How happy they were together! How
much the Saviour loved them!

Mary is now dead, and has gone to heaven. Do you suppose she is sorry
she so early went to Christ and asked him for a new heart?

How pleasant it must have been to her to be able to say, as she looked
back over her past life, that she could not remember the time when she
did not love the Saviour; and she surely does not now regret, that
when she was a little child--less than most of you who are reading
about her--she went to Jesus and asked him for a heart to love him.

Our heavenly Father will give you a new heart, if you really wish to
have it and feel your great need of it. Jesus died that you might be
saved from sin, and he loves _little_ children. Will you not go to
him, as did Mary, and ask him for a new heart? If you are sorry for
your sins, tell him so; and if you are not, ask him to help you to
feel how wicked sin is, that you may have the "great treasure."

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"SUSAN WILL BE HAPPIER IF I GO WITH HER."

Mary Wilson is a little girl only nine years old. She loves her mother
very dearly, and she is always happy to be with her.

Mrs. Wilson lives in the country, not far from a pretty village, to
which she occasionally goes to make a few purchases or call on a
friend. She sometimes takes Mary with her, who always enjoys such a
walk.