a dirty little boy."
"Why, I'se clean, papa; mamma washed me." "Well, you've got dirty
since." But he began to cry, and I could not convince him that he was
dirty. "I'se clean; mamma washed me!" he cried. Do you think I argued
with him? No. I just took him up in my arms, and carried him into the
house, and showed him his face in the looking-glass. He had not a word
to say. He could not take my word for it; but one look at the glass was
enough; he saw it for himself. He didn't say he wasn't dirty after that!

Now the looking-glass showed him that his face was dirty--but I did not
take the looking-glass to wash it; of course not. Yet that is just what
thousands of people do. The law is the looking-glass to see ourselves
in, to show us how vile and worthless we are in the sight of God; but
they take the law and try to wash themselves with it.

Jesus "Wants them All to Come."

I heard of a Sunday-school concert at which a little child of eight was
going to recite. Her mother had taught her, and when the night came the
little thing was trembling so she could scarcely speak. She commenced,
"Jesus said," and completely broke down. Again she tried it: "Jesus said
suffer," but she stopped once more. A third attempt was made by her,
"Suffer little children--and don't anybody stop them, for He wants them
all to come," and that is the truth. There is not a child who has a
parent in the Tabernacle but He wants, and if you but bring them in the
arms of your faith and ask the Son of God to bless them and train them
in the knowledge of God, and teach them as you walk your way, as you lie
down at night, as you rise up in the morning, they will be blessed.

Never to See its Mother.

I was in an infirmary not long since, and a mother brought a little
child in. She said, "Doctor, my little child's eyes have not been opened
for several days, and I would just like you to do something for them."
The doctor got some ointment and put it first on one and then on the
other, and just pulled them open. "Your child is blind," said the
doctor; "perfectly blind; it will never see again." At first the mother
couldn't take it in, but after a little she cast an appealing look upon
that physician, and in a voice full of emotion, said, "Doctor, you don't
mean to say that my child will never see again?" "Yes," replied the
doctor, "your child has lost its sight, and will never see again." And
that mother just gave a scream, and drew that child t